Why do you think this?
think the title and framing about what EA leadership should do is not really a good fit for frontpage?
Would it have made a difference if, instead of referring to EA leadership, the post had said “we should sound the alarm” (as in readers/LW/EAs)?
This is not quite true. Disulfiram is currently used in Russia (and other former USSR countries) to treat alcohol addiction. (Random clinic website that offers disulfiram implants for ~$200.)
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Also in the 90s disulfiram apparently was used to treat alcohol addiction in a quite questionable form:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coding_(therapy)