Molecular biologists from the University of Texas created and tested the first experimental drug for alcoholism, completely disaccustomed rats and worms from cravings for alcohol, according to an article published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology.

"There are other experimental drugs for alcoholism, but they all act on humans poorly and have strong side effects. Our substance, JVW-1034, acts on another chain of neurons and therefore it does not have such minuses, "explains James Sahn of the University of Texas at Austin (USA).

In recent years, scientists have found that alcoholism does not develop due to "weak will" or some other problems with the character of a person, but because of the presence of certain mutations in the genes responsible for processing ethanol and the work of certain parts of the "pleasure center" and other regions of the brain associated with self-control and impulsive behavior.

Such discoveries have revived the interest of doctors in creating drugs that would "correct" the work of such sections of DNA and associated proteins and parts of the brain, and help alcoholics get rid of addiction, or prevent its development.

San and his colleagues took the first step toward creating such a drug, studying how the work of the nervous system changes in its most general form, not only with the development of alcoholism, but also other forms of drug addiction.

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