>I listened to a report on NPR the other day about this drug.
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>There are reports where this drug worked very very well for some heavy drinkers.
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>However, there are potentially severe side-effects from this drug.
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>The report indicated that right now, medications for alcoholics are at the stage where depression medications were, years and years ago. Promising, but will need more development...


That is my suspicion as well.