Acamprosate: potential medication for treating alcoholism
...s with drinking alcohol. However, it is unclear if craving or the desire to drink are reduced, and many peopl...hich they bind. Naltrexone can also block alcohol craving (especially the type of craving generated by people, places and things associated with alcohol) and ......tion of conditioned place preference -- a model of craving in which animals develop a preference for a place where they have previously had access to a drug, even when the drug is absent -- is similar to the aversion seen in Brookhaven's earlier studies of GVG with nicotine and heroin. "The findings of ...