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Antabuse And Its Role In Alcoholism Problems Treatment
Date Added: January 01, 2010 03:18:30 AM
Author: kekndall32
Category: Health: Medicine

Social drinking has become quite popular in the modern world. It is kind of a tradition to include some wine or beer in a meal in a number of restaurants and houses. Celebrating special days such as birthdays and other holidays is seldom held with no alcohol drinks. It is also commonplace to meet up with friends or acquaintances for a drink or two after work. That is considered to be a way to keep in touch. Expensive alcoholic beverages are also present at business negotiations and lunches. Though it is not an alcohol abuse, it still provides a basis to interference of alcohol in our lives. Alcohol addicts don't understand the fact that alcohol causes damage not only to them, but at the same time it causes pain to their close relatives. The rising number of cases of domestic violence, innocent deaths, suicides is a consequence of deep penetration of alcohol into our life. You should take into consideration that alcohol is a form of drug, and alcoholic dependence is a form of drug abuse. The withdrawal from this abuse is as difficult as from drug application. Antabuse (aka disulfiram) was the first approved medicine used to cure alcoholic addiction. Its action is founded on provoking negative reaction in case a person continues drinking when using antabuse. It interferes with the metabolic process of the alcohol conversion and in this way stimulates hangover symptoms that are 10 times greater that usually. A person that drinks when using antabuse faces with such disagreeable symptoms as sweating, nausea, chest pain, throbbing headache, hypotension, blurred vision and so on and so forth. Amid more serious symptoms can be respiratory depression, myocardial infarction, unconsciousness and even death. As you see, antabuse is a very strong medicine, so it can be given only to a person who knows exactly how it works and is completely serious about quitting drinking. Antabuse contraindicative to people with a history of severe heart disease, mental illness or an allergy to antabuse. Pregnant women are also prohibited to take antabuse. So it's an excellent idea to visit a physician prior to starting with alcoholism treatment. Take into consideration that antabuse is efficient only in case of long-term use. In case a person takes just one tablet, he can simply start drinking in a couple of days again. Wonderful news is that European investigations showed that the longer people take antabuse, the more effective it is, as they develop a custom of not drinking. So your health is in your hands, as is your future.
 
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