Well, what a difference time has made. Our local GPs prescribe it, not that they fully accept it. It has proven to be a success over a long period in reducing drinking and helping manage drinking. It seems to have a permanent effect on the brain and returns one back to a more normal lifestyle,probably because the brain gets a rest.
What is good is that people are now able to find a source for baclofen which is safe, support in its use and doctors who are willing to prescribe.
It is so sad that all of this could not have happened so much earlier and without the confrontation and opposition from almost every quarter. It is the product of prejudice and nothing more. Here is something Mark Twain said which I have changed to reflect the prevailing attitude towards alcoholism and Baclofen, namely, that there is no cure, can never be one and there never will, that it is a problem of will power:
I am aware that when even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself. We always get second hand our notions about systems of government; and high tariff and low tariff; and prohibition and anti-prohibition; and the holiness of peace and the glories of war; and codes of honor and codes of morals; and approval of the duel and disapproval of it; and our beliefs concerning the nature of cats; and our ideas as to whether the murder of helpless wild animals is base or is heroic; and our preferences in the matter of religious and political parties; and our acceptance or rejection of (baclofen as a treatment for alcoholism).
Best wishes to all.
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