Skip to main content
Download PDF
Download ePub

Erratum: Magnesium treatment in alcoholics: a randomized clinical trial

Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy volume 3, Article number: 5 (2008) Cite this article

The Original Article was published on 25 January 2008

Correction

After publication of our work [1], we noticed that the magnesium (Mg) content of the trial tablets was inadvertently given as 250 mg. The correct content was 200 mg. Thus the first sentence under the subtitle "Intervention" should read: The patients received orally for 8 weeks either a daily dose of 400 mg of Mg tablets divided in two tablets (200 mg each) or matching placebo tablets.

References

  1. Poikolainen K, Alho H: Magnesium treatment in alcoholics: a randomized clinical trial. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy. 2008, 3: 1-10.1186/1747-597X-3-1. (25 January 2008)

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgements

We thank Sirpa Päivinen, R.N. for patient data collection, the Töölö A-Clinic and Detoxification Unit (Finland) for recruiting the patients and providing facitilites, Pharma Nord (Denmark) for providing the trial drugs and corresponding placebos, and the Finnish Foundation for Alcohol Studies for financial support.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Finnish Foundation for Alcohol Studies, Helsinki, Finland

    Kari Poikolainen

  2. National Public Health Institute (KTL), Department of Mental Health and Alcohol Research, Helsinki, Finland

    Kari Poikolainen & Hannu Alho

  3. Research Unit of Substance Abuse Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland

    Hannu Alho

Authors
  1. Kari Poikolainen
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Hannu Alho
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Kari Poikolainen.

Additional information

Competing interests

The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests.

Authors' contributions

KP had the idea. KP and HA planned and designed the study, organized and supervised the data collection and finalized the manuscript together. KP analysed data and wrote the first draft.

Rights and permissions

This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Poikolainen, K., Alho, H. Erratum: Magnesium treatment in alcoholics: a randomized clinical trial. Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy 3, 5 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1186/1747-597X-3-5

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1747-597X-3-5

Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy

ISSN: 1747-597X