Every day, I get countless emails from you through this site. Thank you for your feedback.

I hope you will understand that I cannot immediately respond to every question. I do what I can. Please continue to write me. Since 2004, I’ve also been doing everything I can — despite a stubborn and sometimes hostile medical establishment — to initiate clinical trials of baclofen; genuine interest has now been sparked among certain doctors and researchers who specialize in addiction. Less than a month after my book was published in France, the afssaps (the French equivalent of the fda), took the unusual step of announcing that it would conduct a study of high-dose baclofen without waiting for a government request to do so, as is the normal procedure, which is extremely encouraging news. If you think of ways to help me in these efforts, don’t hesitate to let me know.

In January 2009, my book is being published in the United States and Canada. It’s important to remember that activist groups in the United States succeeded in putting pressure on the government to make advances in aids medications. We should follow their example of courage and perseverance.

Keep up the fight. The treatment of alcoholism appears to be changing quickly and moving in a very positive direction.

—Olivier Ameisen