I noticed there is no mention at all of baclofen on the Wiki page about alcoholism:
Alcoholism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is mentioned as a treatment under the baclofen section. I wonder if anyone knows how to make a change on Wiki. I expect a lot of people might start out their research on alcoholism by going to that page.
Here is what is said on Wiki about Olivier Ameisen so maybe this could be added also to the alcoholism section: In 2007, an Italian team has demonstrated the effectiveness and the safety of baclofen as a treatment for alcohol-addiction[5]
Ameisen's treatment model has been praised by Nobel laureate for Medicine Jean Dausset who said, "Ameisen has discovered the cure for addiction". Ameisen's book has received the official endorsement of the Journal Alcohol and Alcoholism, that represents the National Council on Alcoholism and by its chief-editor, Dr. Jonathan Chick who has taken the unusual step to support Ameisen's findings in the medias (Daily Mail, The Big Issue). Prominent figures in Medicine were exasperated at the fact that addiction specialists have not fulfilled their obligation to conduct randomized trials of the only therapeutic model that could affect the deadliness of this devastating disease have publicly written: Jerome B. Posner, Chair of Neuro-oncology, George Cotzias director of the laboratory, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center wrote in January 2009:
"One wonders if high-dose baclofen will apparently become the treatment of choice without ever undergoing a controlled trial, simply because more and more alcoholics will be treated and the effectiveness will spread by word of mouth. If it works as well as you indicate that it does, it shouldn't need controlled trials. Even if a controlled trial were to show no overall benefit, it is clear that at least some (maybe all?) patient's do respond."
Arguably, Dr. Posner's suspicion has turned out to be correct. An online community has evolved wherein alcoholics order the medication online and self administer the drug with support from one another and Ameisen's book. Websites like mywayout.org and thesinclairmethod.net are replete with success stories of this variety. In the UK Dr Jonathan Chick, editor-in-chief of the medical journal Alcohol and Alcoholism publicly supports Ameisen's discovery.[6] Ameisen has been awarded the French Legion of Honor by President Jacques Chirac, out of the President's personal reserve of Crosses in 1998.
Alcoholism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is mentioned as a treatment under the baclofen section. I wonder if anyone knows how to make a change on Wiki. I expect a lot of people might start out their research on alcoholism by going to that page.
Here is what is said on Wiki about Olivier Ameisen so maybe this could be added also to the alcoholism section: In 2007, an Italian team has demonstrated the effectiveness and the safety of baclofen as a treatment for alcohol-addiction[5]
Ameisen's treatment model has been praised by Nobel laureate for Medicine Jean Dausset who said, "Ameisen has discovered the cure for addiction". Ameisen's book has received the official endorsement of the Journal Alcohol and Alcoholism, that represents the National Council on Alcoholism and by its chief-editor, Dr. Jonathan Chick who has taken the unusual step to support Ameisen's findings in the medias (Daily Mail, The Big Issue). Prominent figures in Medicine were exasperated at the fact that addiction specialists have not fulfilled their obligation to conduct randomized trials of the only therapeutic model that could affect the deadliness of this devastating disease have publicly written: Jerome B. Posner, Chair of Neuro-oncology, George Cotzias director of the laboratory, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center wrote in January 2009:
"One wonders if high-dose baclofen will apparently become the treatment of choice without ever undergoing a controlled trial, simply because more and more alcoholics will be treated and the effectiveness will spread by word of mouth. If it works as well as you indicate that it does, it shouldn't need controlled trials. Even if a controlled trial were to show no overall benefit, it is clear that at least some (maybe all?) patient's do respond."
Arguably, Dr. Posner's suspicion has turned out to be correct. An online community has evolved wherein alcoholics order the medication online and self administer the drug with support from one another and Ameisen's book. Websites like mywayout.org and thesinclairmethod.net are replete with success stories of this variety. In the UK Dr Jonathan Chick, editor-in-chief of the medical journal Alcohol and Alcoholism publicly supports Ameisen's discovery.[6] Ameisen has been awarded the French Legion of Honor by President Jacques Chirac, out of the President's personal reserve of Crosses in 1998.
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