Mark Whitaker, 69, from West Yorkshire, says he often drinks a bottle of wine or more in one day. Struggling to give up booze, he discovered Selincro - but the pills are hard to get on the NHS.
Jonathan Chick, of Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh, has said that Selincro 'will help people cut down drinking when they have no medical need to give up alcohol altogether.' The drug doesn't make users ill from drinking (unlike Antabuse, the drug given to treat alcoholics), just dulls the need. Made by Danish pharma company Lundbeck, it is an 'opioid receptor antagonist' - it works on the reward mechanism in the brain to take away the pleasurable effects of alcohol.
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