A Pill to Cure Alcoholism?

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would like to have more information since i do have a very bad bad alcohol problem

tedes 10:37PM March 03, 2012

Has anyone tried this drug yet???
Is it in Canada??

Antonette 6:43PM October 10, 2011

have you listened to this all the people talk at the same time

john 6:09PM July 18, 2011

today i was so sore and laid in bed thinking that would help but it didn't i got out of the house and came home 5 hrs. later by moving walking, socializing and it helped so much . just a great reminder it's going to hurt so why not njoy it and decrease the pain by doing some king of body movement besides the remote control!! thanx much a reader!!@

Raymond Ayala of FL 8:33PM December 31, 2010

there is a wonderful program called Alcoholics Anonymous that has a 100% rate of success. Another drug is not the answer to an alcoholic's problems

Kate of NY 2:09PM November 16, 2010

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diamontina of LA 1:24AM June 14, 2010

I am a 70 year old Mum who's Son is an alcoholic,Im not very good with Computers,However when i get desperate i try to find something on the Internet.
I have just come across your site and it sounds good but I cant tell the difference between the genuine remedys and the non genuine.
My Son is 49 years old and is a Solicitor he manages his job quite well,but has no social life and very few relationship that are meaningful.
There must be someone out there that can help us,
Yours Sincerley
Mary Chesters

Mary Chesters 5:03AM November 08, 2009

Apparently modern medecine centers around the treatment of symptoms rather than seeking to eliminate the cause. After all, medicine is big business today. There is much more money to be made by treating symptoms on an ongoing basis than by curing a disease. The article "A Pill to Cure Alcoholism?", by Lindsay Chura, states: "Topiramate not only reduces the symptom of the desire for heavy drinking, but also improves the physical and psychological health of the people who take it." This statement nor any other in the article mentions a cure as suggested in the title.
Alcoholism has long been known to be an incurable, progressive, terminal disease. The physiological definition of alcoholism, other than being identified by the symptom of heavy drinking (and its physical and psychological consequences) has been determined to be the production, in the brain of the alcoholic, of tetrahydroisoquinolone. (see http://www.samhouston.army.mil/hra/asap/docs/THIQ.doc) A "cure" therefore would most likely center on the elimination of existing THIQ in the brain of the alcoholic and the prevention of subsequent production of THIQ as the body processes alcohol, or blocking THIQ from neuro receptors, thus eliminating the addictive property of alcohol in the individual, making it possible to consume alcohol without addictive consequences. There is no indication in the article, nor anywhere else, that use of topiramate could acheive this.
Topiramate is credited with the following effects: "not only reduces the symptom of the desire for heavy drinking, but also improves the physical and psychological health of the people who take it.", also "lowering liver enzymes, cholesterol, body mass index, and blood pressure", and "may also lower the risk for the onset of cirrhosis, the scarring of the liver that is a leading cause of death in heavy drinkers." All these benefits attributed to topiramate are produced by the reduction in alcohol intake rather than being effects of the drug itself, so any method that reduces alcohol intake will produce the same health benefits.
"When the spiritual malady is overcome, we straighten out mentally and physically." (Alcoholics Anonymous)
I personally have recovered from alchoholism by becoming a member in the fellowship of, and by practicing the program of AA. I have not had to drink alcohol since April 20th 1999. I do not have to take medication and the remedy costs nothing. I am simply required to adopt a set of principles, spiritual in their nature, which if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink, and enable the sufferer to become hapilly and usefully whole. The program of action, though entitrely sensible, was pretty drastic. It meant I would have to throw several lifelong conceptions out of the window. That was not easy. But the monent I made up my mind to go through with the process, I had the curious feeling that my alcoholic condition was relieved, as in fact it proved to be.

Bob S. of PA 2:28AM October 03, 2009

Hi All,
Don;t waste your time. Ive been on it for 2 years. I wont suggest any name brand becaude I wouldn't lie it either.
I am a raging alcoholic , but no matter. Buy Kudzo at the highest d. If you drank a lirer, you will have a sip. It completly does away with your withdrwals, and I have seen snakes, depression for 3 days whrer I could not get out of bed. From my third pill, I have not had a drink, went back to the gym, and because I was a drunk have not have a drink and although it was to late lost the love of my life.. For about $20 and 3 days it is well worth it. No side effects, and ive ben an alcoholic for 30 years and am afraid of cirrossis and death. I hope that this helps any lost people as I was 2 years ago. You can buy it at GNC, the viamin shoppe or the net.
God Bless to you all,
John

John of NY 7:25PM August 31, 2009