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AS a cardiologist, Olivier Ameisen was familiar with hospitals, but not being detained in a psychiatric ward. Being committed to a New York hospital after yet another drinking binge was one of the many low points in his seven-year struggle with alcoholism. The End of My Addiction is the fascinating tale of how he found his own cure through a bout of pharmacological trial and error.
Standard drug treatments for alcoholism and endless AA meetings hadn’t helped Ameisen. He lost his job and his girlfriend, and in his forties had to move back home with his mother in…
