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Feb. 19, 2026 – These drugs aren’t a panacea — like all medications, some things work for some people and not others. But they’re an important tool in a toolbox to treat a condition that affects millions of Americans and takes thousands of lives each year. “The challenge here is to really treat addiction the same way we treat diabetes, hypertension, cancer, Parkinson’s, depression, and the list goes on and on,” Leggio says.
At a basic level, the medications used to treat alcohol use disorder do something quite simple: they make drinking less appealing.
