Baclofenuk

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Baclofenuk

(Copied from Coffeepusher's talk page) I am a semi retired criminal solicitor with a long standing interest in substance abuse and alcoholism both as a defence lawyer and prosecutor. I became involved in the use of Baclofen via an NHS website from which I was directed to Osea Clinic in England and then on to Dr. Jonathan Chick, the editor of the Oxford Journal of Alcohol and Alcoholism. I was looking for help in getting baclofen for someone close to me who suffered form an horrendous alcohol addiction and I feared for their life. I had seen Dr. Olivier Ameisen on television talking about his book, The End of My Addiction in which he recounts his own recovery from alcoholism using baclofen. I was able, with the help of Dr. Chick to get a prescription for a patient well before anyone I had heard of, back in 2009 but the protocols for prescribing were not understood due to lack of experience. The road was rough but it seemed to work. We were never given enough of the drug and decided not to get it over the internet. Eventually, we went to Dr. Mathis Heydtmann who is a senior gastroenterologist who is using this drug to help cirrhosis patient, many of whom were terminal. We became involved in a trial which he was conducting and involved high doses which actually had the effect of causing a condition of delirium from the complete cessation of drinking which results from taking the drug. After that process the drug worked and is now prescribed for this patient who is fully recovered from alcoholism. There are several internet sites, including Mywayout which support users of this drug and a look at the site will show that this drug has taken over the site from other drugs. Dr. Fred Levin prescribes baclofen in the US. Dr Renaud de Beaurepair and his colleagues in France and Switzerland have now published a prescribing guide for baclofen and it is being supported by the NIH in the US and now is being looked into more closely by NICE in England. There are a number of published papers on baclofen in addiction. I started up a site because I was concerned that, while there were doctors setting up supportive organizations in France, there was nothing else to help alcoholics in the English speaking world and the information that people were posting on Mywayout was getting lost like so many needles in a haystack. I was eventually approached by a pharmacy which offered to pay a small fee to advertise on the site. The site is a non profit site and the fees received are about $100 in the three years the site has operated, which pays to keep the .com address current. I am not involved in this in any other way. My concern is with my own family and with the furtherance of understanding of this medication and the treatment of alcoholism and addiction. I noticed that the wiki site does not mention baclofen although it does mention several other drugs such as Campral, topirimate and the like. I personally know many people who are using baclofen and the press in France is full of stories about its use. It has been recommended for use by doctors in France by the alcohol association there prior to the results of a double blind trial. I can provide a wealth of information about this treatment. Whether it is a "cure" or not and whether I have a conflict or not is really not the point. The article is deficient because it does not mention this drug which is proving far more effective than any other and is mentioned on other pages of Wiki. I have never edited before. I know other people who have. I am not keen on getting involved in some sort of argument over whether or not I have a conflict and I don't understand how to edit. I cannot even find the button to click to allow me to edit a page. Nor do I want to argue with anyone about the efficacy of this drug. I simply wish to update the page so that it mentions in a perfectly factual way the present state of play with respect to the developing interst and tests of this medication. Perhaps you could have a think about this and let me know what is best, in some way which does not involve me in some dispute over conflicts etc. Thanks Baclofenuk (talk) 17:38, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Baclofenuk,

Ok, for starters you need to read the pages I have directed you too. This will give you the best start as to how to edit the wikipedia article. Whenever anything is highlighted in Blue that means it links to another page. Here they are again:

• The five pillars of Wikipedia
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• How to edit a page and How to develop articles
• How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
• Simplified Manual of Style

Next we need to figure out what kind of editor you want to become. If you have come to wikipedia just to advocate for a drug then this may not be the best place for you because that goes against our community standards. We have found that advocates are less willing to collaborate or discuss a viewpoint different from theirs. Now if you want to improve the encyclopedia, then a few things are going to have to happen.

First, we need you to change your name. Any edit by a user named after a copyrighted product or company, which subsequently advocates for that product or company is suspicious. The links for how to change your name are in the welcome above.

Second, if you want to add information about baclofen and its use in treating alcoholism then you need to find reliable sources to back up your edits, give them a proper citation, and give the sections you add due weight which means if there is only 3 sources talking about baclofen's use on alcoholism and 8 sources on another drug, don't suddenly add (random number) 5 paragraphs of information on Baclofen on the alcoholism page, when the other drug only has 2 sentences. The amount of content on the article should equally represent its relationship to the amount of reliable sources discussing the topic.

I hope this helps. Contact me with any questions and I will be glad to get you started on wikipedia. Coffeepusher (talk) 23:01, 22 February 2013 (UTC)