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Oh thank goodness that there’s a CURE for alcoholism! This must be new, because the last time I heard an outlandish claim like that was from some complete moron pastor trying to pitch somebody on taking Antabuse after having read a sales pamphlet that said something to that effect.

I’ve seen people take obscure research benzos that led to weeks long blackouts, belladonna alkaloids that led to assaulting firefighters, bath salts that led to arson charges… and I’d suggest any one of those over the absolute abject misery that I’ve seen disulfiram cause.

Anybody that calls a drug that’s essentially a form of torture a “cure” for something as complex as alcoholism is at the very best dangerously stupid, at the very worst a liar with a conscious fetish for abusing strangers, and on average somewhere in between. No matter what, they aren’t real scientists by any stretch of the imagination.



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