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Medications For Abstinence and Moderation
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Alexander DeLuca
Alexander DeLuca, M.D., is a fellow of ASAM (American Society of Addiction Medicine); a Senior Policy Advisor to the MM Network (Moderation Management), and does chronic pain and harm reduction advocacy through his site. He recently wrote, “War on Drugs, War on Doctors, and the Pain Crisis in America: Eighty Years of Naked Emperors.” 
By Alexander DeLuca
Published on 02/1/2005
 
From Dr. DeLuca's Site: In answer to the question: "Are there medications that can help me reach my sobriety goals?" allow me to direct your attention first to a patient handout I wrote years ago for Smithers and have revised several times.
Medications For Abstinence and Moderation

From Dr. DeLuca's Site: In answer to the question: "Are there medications that can help me reach my sobriety goals?" allow me to direct your attention first to a patient handout I wrote years ago for Smithers and have revised several times.

From Dr. DeLuca's Site: In answer to the question: "Are there medications that can help me reach my sobriety goals?" allow me to direct your attention first to a patient handout I wrote years ago for Smithers and have revised several times.

Clinicians, please feel free to use these document any way you wish in your practice. I only ask that if you alter the content of the documents please remove my name as author and reference the original document (a simple reference such as the following would satisfy me: "Alexander DeLuca, M.D. - http://www.doctordeluca.com/SobrietyMedStart.htm").

Please note: I am using the word "sobriety" as NOT synonymous with "abstinence." For example, these medications can be used by Moderation Management members during both the 30 day abstinent period that group recommends, but also, in the case of naltrexone, as an aid to moderate drinking.

"Medications that can help us stay sober in early recovery."


While the above document was written with the achieving and maintenance of abstinence in mind, the follow document focuses on the use of naltrexone as an aid to people trying to learn how to drink moderately.