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Alcoholism Disease And Its Treatment |
| Date Added: December 30, 2009 06:53:16 PM |
| Author: kekndall32 |
| Category: Health: Medicine |
| Social drinking has become quite popular in the modern world. It's kind of a tradition to have some wine or beer during a meal in numerous restaurants and houses. Celebration of special days like birthdays, weddings and other holidays is rarely carried out with no alcohol drinks. It's also commonplace to meet up with friends or acquaintances for a short drink after a working day. That is considered to be a way to stay in touch. Expensive alcoholic drinks are also present at business negotiations and lunches. Although it isn't an alcohol addiction, it still provides a foundation to intervention of alcohol in our lives. Alcohol addicts do not realize the fact that alcohol causes damage not only to them, but it causes pain to their close relatives. The rising number of cases of suicides, innocent deaths, domestic violence is a consequence of alcohol deep penetration into our life. You should remember that alcohol is a form of drugs, and alcoholic addiction is a form of drugs abuse. The withdrawal from this abuse is as difficult as from drug application. Antabuse (also known as disulfiram) was the first approved medical product used to cure alcohol addiction. Its action is founded on stimulating negative reaction if a person continues drinking when using antabuse. It interferes with the metabolic process of the alcohol transformation and in such a way causes hangover symptoms that are five to ten times greater that usually. A person that drinks when using antabuse faces such unpleasant symptoms as sweating, nausea, copious vomiting, throbbing headache, hypotension, weakness and so on and so forth. Amongst more serious symptoms can be unconsciousness, respiratory depression, myocardial infarction and even death. As you can see, antabuse is a very strong drug, that is why it can be given only to a person who understands how it works and is absolutely serious about quitting drinking. Antabuse contraindicated to people with a history of heart disease, psychosis or an allergy to antabuse. Pregnant women are also prohibited to take antabuse. So it is an excellent idea to visit a physician prior to starting with alcoholism curing process. Take into account that antabuse is effective only in case of long-term use. In case a person takes one pill, he can simply start drinking in a couple of days again. Good news is that European researches 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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