'Super Pill' May Help Fight Drugs, Smoking
The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL › July 31, 2008
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NEW YORK -- A pill that helps you lose weight and quit smoking? That was amazing enough to capture headlines last week. But scientists say the experimental drug might be even more versatile, providing a new tool to help people stop abusing drugs and alcohol, too.
It's called rimonabant, or Acomplia, and last week researchers reported it could help people not only lose weight but keep it off for two years.See the full content of this document
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'Super Pill' May Help Fight Drugs, Smoking
That burnished the drug's reputation after two studies in March, which suggested it could fight both obesity and smoking, two of humanit...
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