![]() How the brain tricks us and how to take control of it.Martz helps guide the reader to understand the process of addiction and make a change. As we search to numb or solve our internal experience with addictive behavior patterns, the impacts can worsen, adding depression, anxiety, health, or even legal concerns. These patterns include other behavioral issues, including screen time, sexual behaviors, compulsive eating, and shopping. Alcohol, opiates, stimulants, and gambling have become common, with as many as one in four families searching for a way to recover their lives. Sandra Rasmussen: Author of Ready, Set, Go! Addiction Management for People in Recovery Today, millions of Americans are facing an epidemic of addiction. The format engages readers who eagerly anticipate "next steps." Dr. ![]() Inspiring quotations and takeaway messages abound. The author blends theory and practice in direct, useful, and inviting ways. Whether you are a patient, family member, or doctor, this book will help you understand the history of baclofen’s use, current research on its use to treat alcohol use disorders, and whether it might be a viable option for your life or practice. They report on their experiences and views and discuss the results of studies on the use of baclofen to treat alcoholism. In this book, you hear from internationally regarded doctors who have all prescribed baclofen for years for the treatment of alcohol addiction. Other uses for the drug were not actively pursued and, because baclofen is now inexpensive to produce and no longer protected by a patent, drug companies have limited interest in performing the rigorous and expensive research required to prove its use for the treatment of alcoholism. Baclofen was developed in the 1960s and marketed and sold for its role in relieving muscle spasms. Baclofen, which is given for the treatment of multiple sclerosis and other spinal cord diseases, has shown promising results in the treatment of alcoholism and alcohol withdrawal symptoms. Some medications help some patients with alcohol addiction, but no drug treatment has been shown to be effective in ending alcohol addiction. Alcoholism also contributes to health problems such as heart disease, stroke, liver disease, brain damage, pancreatitis, and cancer as well as societal problems such as suicide, domestic violence, and accidents. People with alcohol use disorders tend to miss work, get into problems with the law, have financial difficulties, and alienate family and friends. The worldwide burden of alcoholism on affected individuals, their families, and society is enormous. This is both a memoir of Ameisen's own struggle and a groundbreaking call to action.-From publisher description. Ameisen prescribed himself the drug and, over a two-year period, experimented with the dosage until he reached a level high enough to leave him free of any craving for alcohol. Searching for a cure, he discovered baclofen, a muscle relaxant that had proven effective in curing rats addicted to every substance from nicotine and alcohol to cocaine and heroin. So he took his treatment into his own hands. He gave up his flourishing practice and invested himself in Alcoholics Anonymous and, later, rehab. He broke bones with no memory of falling and nearly lost his kidneys. What if you there were a cure for addiction-a medication that eradicates the need for a fix? This is the story of Olivier Ameisen, a brilliant physician and cardiologist who developed a profound addiction to alcohol. This book is a plea for research that can rescue millions from the scourge of addiction. But as long as the medical and research establishments ignore a cure for one of the most deadly diseases in the world, we won't be able to understand baclofen's full potential. Baclofen, as prescribed under a doctor's care, could possibly help many addicts. Dr Ameisen prescribed himself the drug and experimented with increasingly higher doses until he finally reached a level high enough to leave him free of any craving for alcohol. Searching for a cure for his deadly disease, he happened upon baclofen, a muscle relaxant that had been used safely for years as a treatment for various types of muscle spasticity, but had more recently shown promising results in studies with laboratory animals addicted to a wide variety of substances. So he did the only thing he could he took his treatment into his own hands. Fearing for his life, he immersed himself in AA, rehab and therapy. Dr Olivier Ameisen was a brilliant cardiologist and running his own successful practice when he developed a profound addiction to alcohol.
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