Baclofen Facebook Page

[Mom21961]

I discovered this today. Thought I'd share.

Baclofen Info - Home | Facebook

[kronkcarr]

Re: Baclofen Facebook Page

Good. I know that Mandikinz and I were putting a page together when Evan was alive. It's just sitting there unpublished so I'm glad others have made pages. Thanks.

[Otter]

Re: Baclofen Facebook Page

Good news! One of the posts on the page shows that Cochrane are now going to begin an intervention. This means they will be analysing the results of all the studies on baclofen in alcoholism treatment. I would expect that this will result in a positive conclusion that baclofen does work in anxiety-based alcoholics, to some extent. I think it's unlikely that the writers of this intervention would find criticisms of all the successful studies. I wrote to Cochrane several months ago pointing out that this sort of study has not been included in their database and they did not respond. I expect they just passed the inquiry on to the relevant people.

If the result of this intervention is positive, then baclofen will move from being a fringe medication to one which can be prescribed as an "evidence-based" treatment. Even if it shows less promising results than one might hope, this will still make baclofen a drug which is referred to by Cochrane and doctors will be able to find it in a proper (the most prestigious) data base of drug studies. So, it may, hopefully, be a beginning of the end of this struggle to get some recognition of this treatment in the mainstream of medical research and treatment. I have my fingers crossed.