![]() ![]() I had visited my friend Jeff Steiner, the CEO of Fairchild Corporation, to ask his advice on running my cardiology practice, which I’d started two and a half years before. Had the cab braked suddenly so that I hit my head, or had I been injured in some other way before I hailed it? I knew I’d been drinking, but not where or how much.Īs the cab pulled up in front of the hospital emergency room entrance, a memory of the evening began to come together. He seemed oblivious to my condition, and I wondered what had happened. I asked the driver to take me to the emergency room at New York Hospital, at 68th Street and York Avenue. My apartment was not too far away, on East 63rd Street between York and First Avenues, but I needed medical attention. The few people on the street were buttoned up against the late winter chill, but it was warm in the cab. The church on the corner reminded me it was Sunday, and I looked at my watch. I looked out the window and in the glow of the streetlights saw the cab was on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan, waiting for the light to change at 76th Street. I CAME TO MY SENSES and took stock of where I was: in a cab, with blood streaming down my face and spattering my trench coat. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Ameisen’s own struggle and a groundbreaking call to action-an urgent plea for research that can rescue millions from the scourge of addiction and spare their loved ones the collateral damage of the disease. The End of My Addiction is both a memoir of Dr. But as long as the medical and research establishments continue to ignore a cure for one of the most deadly diseases in the world, we won’t be able to understand baclofen’s full addiction-treatment potential. Baclofen, as prescribed under a doctor’s care, could possibly free many addicts from tragic and debilitating illness. deaths is attributable to alcohol, tobacco, or illegal drugs. Alcoholism claims three hundred lives per day in the United States alone one in four U.S. 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. ![]() 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. Nothing worked. So he did the only thing he could: he took his treatment into his own hands. He gave up his flourishing practice and, fearing for his life, immersed himself in Alcoholics Anonymous, rehab, therapy, and a variety of medications. ![]() He broke bones with no memory of falling he nearly lost his kidneys he almost died from massive seizures during acute withdrawal. ![]() 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. "After years of battling uncontrollable addiction, I have achieved the supposedly impossible: complete freedom from craving." Dr. ![]()
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