What Drug Did The French Doctor Use Help Rein His Cravings...

What drug did the French doctor use to help curb his cravings for alcohol? In order to curb his cravings for alcohol, the French doctor used a muscle relaxant named baclofen to â€Å"flip a switch† and get rid of his cravings for alcohol. He initially tried lower doses which did not seem to have an effect, but higher doses of the drug allowed the doctor to rid himself of the cravings for alcohol, and eventually he was indifferent to alcohol after the drug. Later it was found that there were more cases where this finding was supported. 2. The female journalist telling the story mentions that she was â€Å"torn† while attempting to write the piece on the doctor and the medicine to deal with addiction. Why was she torn? The journalist Amy, was torn as someone who was both a journalist, somebody who had to be skeptical when taking into account the story of the French doctor, and as somebody who had personally witnessed the effects of alcohol on a loved one in a past relationship, she wanted to believe in a cure or a treatment that could resolve the addiction issue associated with alcohol use. She wanted there to be a treatment for this wide-spread issue that plagued lots of people, but she also had to be skeptical as professional, because she was a journalist. 3. How did addicts describe the cravings they would have for whatever it was they were addicted to? It was interesting how the addicts described their feelings of cravings to their respective substances. They described the