Daily adherence to a medication is challenging for most people, and even more challenging for people with alcoholism. |
The problem that alcohol-dependent patients have is with compliance ... each day you have to make a decision to take your drug or drink. |
The way it works is there are certain receptors in the brain that if we block them, can reduce the pleasurable effects associated with drinking. |
There is a very real brain component to addiction, and society up to now has for the most part has viewed it as failure of will. |
This is the first and only long-acting medication available for patients, and so I'm thrilled that it is going to become an important treatment option for patients and their doctors. |