title: Alcohol addiction: toward a patient-oriented pharmacological treatment.
abstract: Very few medications (i.e., disulfiram, naltrexone and acamprosate) are approved for the treatment of alcoholism and their effects are suboptimal. The development of new effective and safe pharmacological agents to treat alcoholic patients is crucial, together with the need to identify predictors of outcomes in different subsets of patients.
authors.affiliation: Catholic University of Rome, Gemelli Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine , Largo Gemelli 8, 00168 Rome , Italy +39 06 30154334 ; +39 06 35502775 ; g.addolorato@rm.unicatt.it.
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Addolorato
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mirijello
authors.forename: Lorenzo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Leggio
mesh_terms: D000427:Alcohol Deterrents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D000427:Alcohol Deterrents