Iwas addicted to alcohol for more than 15 years. What started as binge drinking in high school and college became a pattern of blackouts, emergency room visits, regret and shame.

As peers grew up and put excessive alcohol use in the rear view mirror, the opposite happened for me. Binges and blackouts got longer, and the physical and mental health symptoms got more severe.

I tried 12-step meetings, therapy and asking doctors for help. But nothing worked for me until I was prescribed safe, effective medication proven to help people reduce or quit drinking. With some help from naltrexone, a recommended frontline medication for alcohol use disorder, I was finally able to take back control over alcohol.

I am far from alone in struggling to get access to medication. Only 2.5% of the 28 mil

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