Conditions: Alcoholism
Keywords: Alcohol Relapse
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 50
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The primary hypotheses under test are that alcohol dependent subjects treated with fenofibrate will report decreased craving for alcohol following cue-exposure in the laboratory and report less drinking post treatment relative to placebo.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: None arm 2: None

Interventions: intervention 1: Sugar Pill intervention 2: TRICOR (fenofibrate)
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: 145 mg/day, oral pill, 9 days intervention 2: 145 mg/day, oral pill, 9 days

Protocol document: