Drugs to treat alcohol addiction are underused
Two popular new medications may change that
Nearly 30m Americans suffer from alcohol-use disorder, meaning that alcohol has a significant and negative impact on their lives. Over 140,000 die from alcohol-related causes each year: alcohol is the fourth-highest cause of preventable death in America. These statistics are especially devastating because for many people the suffering could have been avoided.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “A Prozac moment?”
United States September 16th 2023
- Joe Biden’s love of unions runs into a giant strike
- Hunter Biden’s woes, and a new impeachment saga, will go on and on
- America’s school day starts too early. That’s beginning to change
- Drugs to treat alcohol addiction are underused
- Wyoming wants to become America’s crypto capital
- Texas Republicans may oust Ken Paxton, one of their own
- Why some GOP candidates don’t act as aggrieved as Donald Trump
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