If you or one of your loved ones is struggling with this its worth knowing and worth asking your doctor about. Article mainly discusses generic anticonvulsants that have proven beneficial, but there are others such as Naltrexone that can also be helpful.
And in the US they insist religion will cure it. My sister in law had to demand medication, she just kept getting referred to AA. Guess which one finally got her sober?
I read that AA has an 8% success rate. It didn’t work for me.
Someone very close to me was an atheist alcoholic who went into AA. The mental gymnastics that went into getting around all the “higher power” stuff to somehow make the program effective was horrible to see. I wish it wouldn’t get pushed as a real option for alcoholics in the US, especially for those people actively asking for help.