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Smoking Drug To Help Drinkers Too

Published December 1, 2008, 3:23 am, SkyNews via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News

A controversial drug used by millions of people to stop smoking could become the first in the world to treat heavy drinkers too, Sky News has learned.

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