G Tsai, DR Gastfriend, JT Coyle - American Journal of Psychiatry, 1995 - Am Psychiatric Assoc Page 1. 332 AmJ Psychiatry 152:3, March 1995 Special Article The Glutamatergic
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RM Swift - The New England journal of medicine, 1999 - nejm.highwire.org There is increasing interest in drug therapy for alcohol dependence. 6 , 7 , 8 The rationale for
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CD Spies, H Rommelspacher - Anesthesia & Analgesia, 1999 - anesthanalg.org Alcohol is the most abused drug worldwide (1). In the United States, the apparent per capita
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RZ Litten, JP Allen - Alcohol Clin Exp Res, 1991 - interscience.wiley.com The past 10 years have witnessed important advances in research on pharmacotherapy for
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CD Spies, NRA Dubisz, T Neumann, S Blum, C … - Critical care …, 1996 - journals.lww.com From the Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine (Drs. Spies,
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