Incorporating Alcohol Pharmacotherapies Into Medical Practice: Treatment Improvement Protocol 49

May 21, 2009 The federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration released this Treatment Improvement Protocol to share current information about medications to help treat alcohol abuse. The United States Food and Drug Administration has approved four new medications: acamprosate, disulfiram, oral naltrexone, and extended-release injectable naltrexone. The four enable primary care practitioners to provide medication-assisted alcohol abuse treatment.Many health problems or mental disorders that health care practitioners encounter in their everyday practices derive from or are complicated by alcohol use disorders (AUDs). To combat AUDs, health care practitioners are now able to utilize these four . . .