Heal Thyself: A Doctor At The Peak Of His Medical Career, Destroyed By Alcohol -- And The Personal Miracle That Brought Him Back

Heal Thyself: A Doctor At The Peak Of His Medical Career, Destroyed By Alcohol -- And The Personal Miracle That Brought Him Back

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“[This book is] the story of the dazzling discovery of a cure that could soon be within reach of all . . . you must read this book.” —David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PHD, author ofHealing Without Freud or ProzacandAnticancer   When Olivier Ameisen’s book was first published, Barbara Fisher noted inThe Boston Globethat “this is not your usual memoir of addiction, degradation, and redemption.” His story is indeed unusual—not because he was a brilliant cardiologist who developed a profound addiction to alcohol, or because he tried numerous treatment options and none helped. His story was the story of millions of alcoholics—until he decided to take his treatment into his own hands.   Searching for a cure for his deadly disease, he happened upon baclofen, a safe muscle relaxant that had recently shown promising results in studies with laboratory animals addicted to a wide variety of substances. Ameisen experimented with increasingly higher dosages until he reached a level that left him free ofanycraving for alcohol. That was more than six years ago.   Heal Thyself(originally published asThe End of My Addiction) is both a memoir of Ameisen’s struggle and a call to action. In the past year, a growing number of researchers and doctors have been inspired by Ameisen and begun prescribing baclofen and lobbying for wide-scale studies into how the drug works. Last spring, no less an authority than the leading medical journalAlcoholand Alcoholismendorsed the book. Hailing Dr. Ameisen as “a remarkable medical researcher,” it summed up its assessment strongly and directly: “This book is to be recommended.”

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