Olivier Ameisen

The End of My Addiction (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"After years of battling uncontrollable addiction, I have achieved the supposedly impossible: complete freedom from craving."

Dr. Olivier Ameisen was a brilliant cardiologist on the staff at one of America's top teaching hospitals and running his own successful practice when he developed a profound addiction to alcohol. He broke bones with no memory of falling; he nearly lost his kidneys; he almost died from massive seizures during acute withdrawal. He gave up his flourishing practice and, fearing for his life, immersed himself in Alcoholics Anonymous, rehab, therapy, and a variety of medications. Nothing worked.

So he did the only thing he could: he took his treatment into his own hands. Searching for a cure for his deadly disease, he happened upon baclofen, a muscle relaxant that had been used safely for years as a treatment for various types of muscle spasticity, but had more recently shown promising results in studies with laboratory animals addicted to a wide variety of substances. Dr. Ameisen prescribed himself the drug and experimented with increasingly higher dosages until he finally reached a level high enough to leave him free of any craving for alcohol. That was more than five years ago.

Alcoholism claims three hundred lives per day in the United States alone; one in four U.S. deaths is attributable to alcohol, tobacco, or illegal drugs. Baclofen, as prescribed under a doctor's care, could possibly free many addicts from tragic and debilitating illness. But as long as the medical and research establishments continue to ignore a cure for one of the most deadly diseases in the world, we won't be able to understand baclofen's full addiction-treatment potential.

The End of My Addiction is both a memoir of Dr. Ameisen's own struggle and a groundbreaking call to action-an urgent plea for research that can rescue millions from the scourge of addiction and spare their loved ones the collateral damage of the disease.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781429949736
• Artikelnr.: 39946696

Autorenporträt

Olivier Ameisen, MD; Foreword by Jeffrey S. Borer, MD

Inhaltsangabe

* o Acknowledgements
i: Acknowledgements o Section
ii: Preface * Chapter
1: First Laughs, First Tears . . . and the Tupp'ny Rush * Chapter
2: On the Road . . . On the Way * Chapter
3: Can You Do Anything Else? * Chapter
4: Gay Time? * Chapter
5: What a Year! * Chapter
6: Meeting Sammy * Chapter
7: Quick Changes * Chapter
8: Casting Doubts * Chapter
9: Good Game, Good Game
and Crumpet Night? * Chapter
10: 'What Do You Do For a Living?' * Chapter
11: No Hard Feelings * Chapter
12: Don't Look Back * Chapter
13: A Good Hand * Chapter
14: Just When You're Not Expecting It * Chapter
15: A New Life * Chapter
16: The Regeneration Game * Chapter
17: What Tangled Webs We Weave * o Section
iii: Epilogue o Section
iv: Appendix o Index
iv: Index