Could Aversion Therapy for Alcohol Use Disorder Make a Comeback?

Could Aversion Therapy for Alcohol Use Disorder Make a Comeback?

Schick Shadel Hospital in Burien, Washington, was the sole remaining facility in the United States to offer aversion therapy for alcohol use disorder. It shut down in 2022. Is that the last we’ll see of this form of treatment?  Aversion therapy—often involving pairing an alcoholic drink with an emetic, to condition an association with nausea—had proved highly effective for many patients who were voluntarily seeking abstinence, as Filter describe…