University of Minnesota doctors are hoping a drug that has shown promise treating alcoholism and gambling adiction can also help patients overcome kleptomania. The rare disorder gives people an irresistable impluse to steal. The drug, called Naltrexone, works by blocking the pleasurable high Kleptomanics feel when they shop-lift. Dr. Jon Grant, a Pyschiatric Resident at the U of M, is conducting the study. He says Kleptomania is one of the most disabling disorder's he's come across:
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