One drug may help people both lay down the drink and put out the cigarette
Monday, March 2, 2009 - 15:14
in Health & Medicine
A popular smoking cessation drug dramatically reduced the amount a heavy drinker will consume, a new Yale School of Medicine study has found.Heavy-drinking smokers in a laboratory setting were much less likely to drink after taking the drug varenicline compared to those taking a placebo, according to a study published online in the journal Biological Psychiatry.
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