Drug recommended to help cut drink dependence

Re:Drug recommended to help cut drink dependence by pinkyand on Friday October 03, 2014 @06:18PM (#8407939)

According to an article in the british medical journal ,nalmefene in alcohol misuse is bad medicine. I haven't got access but that's the replies to the article, by doctors:

http://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g1531/rapid-responses

Another place is a the most recent review of alcohol dependency drugs:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24825644

There's only medium evidence for nalmefene use, and the results speak of an average reduction of 2 days of heavy drinking per month and average reduction of 1 drink per day. Not that big.

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Re:Drug recommended to help cut drink dependence by DanBC on Friday October 03, 2014 @06:37PM (#8408025)

It's recommended for people who don't manage to cut down after two weeks of psycho-social intervention, who also drink more than 7.5 units per day (that's very roughly half a liter of 14% wine per day) but who also drink less than the amount needed for medically supervised detox.

Here's the priminary NICE information: http://www.nice.org.uk/advice/esnm29

The Cochrane summary is sparse for nalmefene.

http://summaries.cochrane.org/CD001867/ADDICTN_naltrexone-an...

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