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This article was written for The Observer and published online in The Guardian on May 9th 2010
Mar 13, 2008 · Still, Ameisen insists that for him the drug was a lifesaver
See more Formulated in the 1920s, baclofen is a muscle-relaxant more often used to treat spasticity and multiple sclerosis
Half case report, half memoir, Olivier Ameisen was a well-known cardiologist doing some crazy
High‐Dose Baclofen for Suppression of Alcohol Dependence Olivier Ameisen Department of Medicine, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York
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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
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Fearing for his life, he immersed himself in AA, rehab and therapy
Olivier Ameisen Dear all, physicians who are in academia or who are simply practicing the Art of medicine, “One wonders if high-dose baclofen will apparently become the treatment of choice without ever undergoing a controlled trial, simply because more and more alcoholics will be treated and the effectiveness will spread by Jean Claude Ameisen (born 22 December 1951) is a French doctor, He is the older brother of Olivier Ameisen, a doctor who successfully experimented with baclofen against alcohol dependence, and Éva Ameisen, stomatologist and songwriter
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The book has been translated to English as The End of My Addiction, and German as Das Ende meiner Sucht
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The relationship between these substances was a serendipitous discovery made by a doctor looking for ways to extinguish the desire to drink
But a French-American cardiologist names Olivier Ameisen self-treated his own compulsive drinking with high doses of baclofen and then wrote a book about his experiences: The End of My Addiction
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He broke bones with no memory of falling; he nearly lost his kidneys; he almost died from massive seizures during acute withdrawal
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