[BGHater]

Wiki-Baclofen

[GOP Poet]

Well what is his cure regarding the spiritual and mental part of the disease that accompanies the physical addiction? Addiction often is not just a physical addiction.

[GOP Poet]

Well what is his cure regarding the spiritual and mental part of the disease that accompanies the physical addiction? Addiction often is not just a physical addiction.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

“Now I can have a glass and it has no effect......”

cured, eh? LOL

[Reeses]

But, stricken by an overwhelming feeling of inadequacy - he says he felt like "an impostor waiting to be unmasked" - he found relief in large quantities of whisky and gin.

Bunk. There is only one reason people drink large quantities of hard liquor: to get ripped. All other explanations are excuses designed to shift blame to something other than themselves.

Unless the pharmaceutical companies can develop magic pills for every possible vice, a chemical solution is doomed to failure. Personal responsibility doesn't come in a pill.

[LibFreeOrDie]

From Wikipedia:

“Discontinuation of baclofen can be associated with a withdrawal syndrome which resembles benzodiazepine withdrawal and alcohol withdrawal.”

So he trades one addiction for another?

[atomic_dog]

The only cure is to outlaw alcohol, imprison the alcoholics and execute the drug dealers liquor store owners.

/sarcasm

[ReignOfError]

Morphine was a “miracle drug” that cured alcoholism; cocaine was touted as a cure for morphine addiction. It doesn’t appear that Unintended Consequences are taught enough, if at all, in medical school.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BGHater. I just wish someone would invent a pill people could take to cure their addi- oh, never mind...

;’)