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  • Addiction Fighting Drug Approved by FDA

    04/15/2006 12:54:15 AM PDT · by neverdem · 11 replies · 577+ views
    KSL 5 News ^ | April 14, 2006 | Ed Yeates
    A 30 day injection that blocks the appetite to drink, offers alcohol-dependent patients a new and better way to fight their addiction. The FDA has just approved the drug, something psychiatrists here and around the country have been anxiously waiting for. Rick Herschel is a college professor who lost almost everything because of a drinking problem. In fact, he was even stopping at bars before and after rehab, almost thumbing his nose at any attempts to intervene in his addiction. Rick Herschel: "So I systematically had taken everyone who cared for me and pushed them away." But then along came...