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Pill for a skin disease also curbs excessive drinking

The drug apremilast reduces alcohol intake in mice bred to imbibe to excess and in humans with alcohol-use disorder.
A large collection of empty brown beer bottles

People who took a drug normally used for the skin disease psoriasis drank less alcohol over an 11-day period than those who took a placebo. Credit: JoeFox Liverpool/Radharc Images/Alamy

A repurposed drug suppressed alcohol consumption in people who drink excessively1.

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Nature 614, 198 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00233-8

References

  1. Grisgsby, K. B. et al. J. Clin. Invest. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI159103 (2023).

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