Sudie E. Back, PhD

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina; Ralph H. Johnson Veteran Affairs Health Care System, Charleston, South Carolina

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About

Sudie E. Back, PhD is affiliated with Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina; Ralph H. Johnson Veteran Affairs Health Care System, Charleston, South Carolina. Sudie E. Back has authored or co-authored 3 peer-reviewed articles published across the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry and the Primary Care Companion for CNS Disorders between 2016 and 2025. Their work focuses on Addiction, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and Veterans and Military Issues.

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N-acetylcysteine for Co-occurring PTSD and Alcohol Use Disorder: A Double-Blind, Randomized Controlled Trial
Original Research

N-acetylcysteine for Co-occurring PTSD and Alcohol Use Disorder: A Double-Blind, Randomized Controlled Trial

August 27, 2025

Among individuals with PTSD and alcohol use disorder receiving CBT and either NAC or placebo, both groups had significant reductions in both PTSD symptom severity and alcohol use, with...
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Doxazosin for the Treatment of PTSD and AUD
Original Research

Doxazosin for the Treatment of PTSD and AUD

March 8, 2023

This study is the first to evaluate doxazosin, an α1-adrenergic antagonist, in veterans with both PTSD and alcohol use disorder.
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JCP
Original Research

NAC for PTSD and SUD

November 23, 2016

Knowing that patients with posttraumatic stress disorder and substance use disorder share impaired prefrontal cortex regulation, particularly at glutamate synapses in the nucleus accumbens, the authors conducted this first-ever...
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