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A Drug for Alcoholism

How a muscle relaxant drug might help cure alcoholism

The French doctor, Olivier Ameisen, who believes the drug baclofen cured his own alcoholism. Professor David Nott discusses how this might work.
Also: teenagers at a residential centre discuss the eating disorder anorexia nervosa.
A vaccine for malaria comes a step closer.
The Indian glass factory workers whose lungs have been poisoned with silica dust.

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