Smoking cessation meds shows promise as alcoholism treatment, study suggests
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 20:30
in Health & Medicine
A medication commonly used to help people stop smoking may have an unanticipated positive side effect for an entirely different vice: drinking alcohol. A new study finds that varenicline, sold as Chantix, increases the negative effects of alcohol and therefore could hold promise as a treatment for alcoholism.