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Published online 14 February 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.575
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Drug eases cravings in stressed alcoholics
Changing how the brain responds to stress may help overcome addiction.
Researchers have found a drug that reduces responses to stress in some recovering alcoholics, and eases their cravings to have a drink.
The results, published online today in Science1, were obtained from a small clinical study of 50 recovering alcoholics, all of whom reported high levels of anxiety at the start of the study.
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