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"Drugs" or medications is a primary way that medicine works. How do doctors treat Seizures? Medications that reduce hyperexcitability of the brain. How is parkinsons disease treated? Medications that increase dopamine production. How is schizophrenia treated? Medications that reduce dopamine. This is the reality. These disorders have neurological underpinnings that medication targets, leading to their symptomatic relief. Are they cures? No. However, people with these conditions, and many like them, all can live great lives due to these medications. Stuttering is no different. Stuttering has neurological underpinnings and ought to be managed with medications that address what's going on in the brain. In fact, there are many different medications that have shown to significantly reduce stuttering, yet it remains largely unknown to many people who stutter. Fluency shaping techniques haven't shown to be effective in reducing stuttering, unfortunately.