Olivier ants

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Olivier Ameisen (born June 25, 1953 in Paris , † July 18, 2013 there ) was a French cardiologist and author .

Career

In 1969, at the age of 16, ants began studying medicine at the Hôpital Cochin , the teaching hospital of the University of Paris . After graduating in 1978, he worked as an assistant doctor in the nephrology department of the Saint-Cloud hospital. He then made cardiology his specialty, moved to New York and from 1983 held a position as research assistant in the cardiology department of the New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical College (since 1998 NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College) . He later became a lecturer in medicine at Cornell University and a medical specialist at New York Hospital. In 1994 he also opened a private practice in Manhattan, New York . In the course of increasing alcohol addiction , Ameisen completely stopped his work as a doctor in 1997 in order to devote himself to the therapy of his own illness. After numerous unsuccessful attempts at therapy, he said he was able to completely overcome his alcoholism with the help of the muscle relaxant baclofen , which he had prescribed as an off-label use for a self -experiment . Ameisen was visiting professor at the State University of New York until his death .

In 2005, ants published a report on the addiction-inhibiting effects of baclofen in the journal Alcohol and Alcoholism . The positive experiences, which have also been processed in a popular scientific work, are controversial and have not yet been verified in controlled clinical studies .

He was the younger brother of Jean Claude Ameisen and lived in New York and Paris.

Works

  • The end of my addiction (2009), from the Frz. by Ursel Schäfer. ISBN 978-3-88897-585-1 - Le dernier verre (2008)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in Le Monde, July 19, 2013
  2. ↑ Ants: The End of My Addiction (2009) ISBN 978-3-88897-585-1 - Le Dernier Verre (2008)
  3. ↑ ants: Complete and prolonged suppression of symptoms and consequences of alcohol-dependence using high-dose baclofen: a self-case report of a physician. Alcohol Alcohol. 2005; 40 (2): 147-50. PMID 15596425 full text
  4. ↑ Bublitz: Baclofen - a drug against alcohol addiction? Stern.de , accessed on September 8, 2009.
  5. ↑ Mayer: Never again want to drink. Stuttgarter Zeitung online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 8, 2009.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de  
  6. ↑ Swaminathan: Self-Experimenters: To Purge Binges, Alcoholic Cardiologist Self-Prescribed an Experimental Drug. Scientific American , accessed September 8, 2009.
  7. ↑ Schofield: France abuzz over alcoholic 'cure'. BBC online , accessed September 8, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Ants, Olivier
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cardiologist and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 18th July 2013
Place of death Paris