Patent ID: 7048940

Claim:
A method of treating alcohol craving by administering an anticraving composition of matter, comprising an effective amount of at least one alpha-pyrone compound having the structural formula: wherein R1 is a hydrogen atom or an alkoxy radical having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R2 is a hydrogen atom or a hydroxyl group, and R3 is a styryl or phenethyl radical optionally substituted by one or two methylenedioxy radicals or one or two hydroxyl groups and/or one or two alkoxy radicals having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms or one or two alkoxy radicals having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, with the proviso that, when R2 is a hydroxyl group, then R3 is necessarily an unsubstituted phenethyl radical, in a physiologically acceptable carrier medium.