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 the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina and the Ralph H. Johnson Veteran Affairs Health Care System in Charleston. Their published work from 2016 to 2025 focuses on addiction, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and issues affecting veterans and military populations. Research topics include clinical trials investigating treatments such as N-Acetylcysteine and doxazosin for co-occurring PTSD and alcohol use disorder in veterans. Frequent collaborators include Kathleen T. Brady, Amber M. Jarnecke, Jane E. Joseph, Julianne C. Flanagan, and Alan L. Peterson.

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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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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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