Alcohol addiction is treated with naltrexone, a drug that blocks opioid receptors in the brain, but it only helps about 78 percent of people.
David Sinclair and his colleagues at the National Institutes of Health in Helsinki, Finland, surveyed 78 people who had recently received treatment to rate their sugar cravings. Those who crave sweets the least are more likely to return to drinking.
Sweets and alcohol activate pleasure-inducing substances.
Alcoholics who do not like sweets will increase the process of activating pleasure by taking alcohol, writes NewScientist.
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