I could not agree more, PV. These doctors worry that they are committing malpractice by prescribing a pill with an 80% efficacy rate. At the same time, they send millions to AA with its 5% (am being generous) efficacy rate and "hocus pocus" solutions. The entire medical community is living in the stone ages and I, for one, can't wait for the day they issue a world-wide, blanket apology. Which will be too little, too late, as far as I'm concerned. Every MD I talk to, to this day, still says naltrexone does not work [citing erroneous studies where naltrexone was incorrectly prescribed as an anti-craving drug to be used with abstinence]. "Drunks should go to AA" they drone on, as millions die and lives are ruined as a result.

And to them I say, "I hope you have good malpractice insurance."

What we need is one, big, fat class action lawsuit where doctors get sued for millions. Once that happens and the medical community is hit in the pocketbook, TSM will be welcomed by the mainstream very quickly. But as of now, the "accepted standard care for alcoholism" remains AA despite its putrid efficacy rate; until that changes, no successful lawsuits.

Well said, Nick.