This is one of the best articles I’ve read in some time about advances in pharmacotherapy for treating alcohol dependence. You’re sure to learn something new in this well researched cover story from Chemical and Engineering News. Here’s an excerpt:

“‘We know that out of the 8 million or 9 million people in America with alcohol dependence, maybe 100,000 get medication, which is essentially nobody,” [David R. Gastfriend, Alkermes’ vice president of medical affairs] says, although about 2 million per year seek treatment. “Since 1935, at the outset of the Alcoholics Anonymous movement, we’ve had one major approach to treating alcohol dependence, and that is talking. And we have taken that, it seems, about as far as we are going to get with it,” he says. He believes medications will be a crucial part of future treatment.’”

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