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The End of My Addiction by Ameisen, Olivier is a health book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The End of My Addiction about?

"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 tha

Who reads The End of My Addiction?

Author

Ameisen, Olivier

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781616793272

Category

health

Rating

3.94 / 5 (101 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14