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Medications for AUD: An update
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.33033
Subject(s) - alcohol use disorder , opioid use disorder , food and drug administration , medicine , psychiatry , intensive care medicine , opioid , alcohol , pharmacology , biochemistry , chemistry , receptor
With so much focus on medications to treat opioid use disorder, sometimes the fact that medications exist to treat alcohol use disorder (AUD) is ignored. Three medications have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of AUD, with others showing promise.