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Broadening the range of available medications for alcohol-use disorder (AUD) will give people more options and a better chance at finding recovery.  Gabapentin is one such promising drug and a trial with a new version of the drug will soon ...

The idea of using medicine to treat alcoholism has been gaining momentum in recent years but very few Americans are currently being prescribed medications to help treat their addiction.  There are drugs that are proven to help minimize cravings and ...

Larry King discusses the future of alcohol addiction treatment with a panel of experts on Larry King Now, January 20, 2014. Actors Meredith Baxter and Claudia Christian discuss the differing ways they have tackled their own alcoholism. Dr. Adi Jaffe, ...

People in recovery can add one more item to the list of tools that may help them stay the course: their smart phones. Healthline.com has compiled a list of the top apps for recovering alcoholics. The iPhone and Android apps range ...

Is abstinence the only way? Millions of recovering alcoholics choose abstinence as their path to recovery. But what about those for whom going cold turkey is not working?  What are the other options and what new treatments are on the ...