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Article: In alcohol treatment, a medication surge may be near: are clinical professionals ready to realize the opportunity?(Cover Story)
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- Addiction Professional
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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The first drug to treat alcoholism in the United States was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) more than 50 years ago. Since then, only two other anti-alcohol medications have been approved in this country, the last just months ago. But over the next few years, there may be as many as three more drugs emerging in this category, according to Raye Litten, Ph.D., co-leader of the medications development team at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA).
More importantly, researchers are working to increase the pace on approvals.
As part of its effort "to test many different types of medications that act at different ...