Alcohol use disorder can be treated with an array of medications – but few people have heard of them
- Written by Joseph P. Schacht, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Drugs used to treat alcohol use disorder have been on the market for decades but are rarely prescribed.Krit of Studio OMG/Moment via Getty ImagesMore than 29.5 million Americans ages 12 and up had alcohol use disorder – the medical term for the disease commonly known as alcoholism – in 2022, when the most recent national data was...

