title: PURLs: Consider these medications to help patients stay sober.
abstract: Naltrexone can help prevent relapse in recently detoxified patients with alcohol use disorder. The evidence for acamprosate is not quite as strong.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
authors.forename: Sydney
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hendry
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mounsey
mesh_terms: D019973:Alcohol-Related Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006801:Humans