the end of my addiction is more than a riveting memoir of one man’s hellish battle with alcohol. It is also the inspiring scientific saga of an extraordinary physician who used himself as a guinea pig to find an effective medication for this deadly disease. And he did find one: the muscle relaxant baclofen, a drug with a sterling safety record, which has been prescribed since the 1960s by neurologists for acute muscular spasms. What Dr. Olivier Ameisen discovered by experimenting on himself five years ago was that at high dosages, baclofen produces rapid, effortless freedom from addiction. Cravings disappear. Addicts become indifferent to the substances that have them in their grip.

The End of My Addiction could herald the end of addiction — many kinds of addiction — for tens of millions of people with this until now irreversible disease.”

—farrar, straus and giroux