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Alcohol use disorder can be treated with an array of medications – but few people have heard of them

  • Written by Joseph P. Schacht, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Alcohol use disorder can be treated with an array of medications – but few people have heard of themDrugs used to treat alcohol use disorder have been on the market for decades but are rarely prescribed.Krit of Studio OMG/Moment via Getty Images

More than 29.5 million Americans ages 12 and up had alcohol use disorder – the medical term for the disease commonly known as alcoholism – in 2022, when the most recent national data was...

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