Single drug may help people both lay down the drink and put out the cigarette

Tuesday, March 3, 2009 - 09:01 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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