| Social drinking is quite popular in the contemporary world. It's sort of a tradition to include a little wine or beer in a meal in various houses and restaurants. Celebration of special days like weddings and other red-letter days is rarely carried out with no alcohol drinks. It is also commonplace to meet up with friends or acquaintances for a drink or two after work. That is regarded as a way to keep in touch. Expensive alcoholic beverages are also present at business negotiations and lunches. Although it's not an alcohol abuse, it still provides a basis for 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 families. The rising amount of cases of suicides, innocent deaths, domestic violence is a consequence of alcohol deep penetration into our lives. You should know that alcohol is a form of drugs, and alcoholic dependence is a form of drug abuse. The withdrawal from this abuse is as difficult as from drug use.
Antabuse (aka disulfiram) was the first approved medicine used to treat alcoholic dependence. Its action is based on stimulating negative reaction in case a person continues drinking when taking antabuse. It interferes with the metabolic process of the alcohol conversion and in this way causes hangover symptoms that are ten times greater that usually. A person that drinks when using antabuse confronts such unpleasant symptoms as sweating, thirst, copious vomiting, tachycardia, vertigo, weakness etc. Amid more serious symptoms can be respiratory depression, myocardial infarction, unconsciousness and even death.
As you can see, antabuse is a very strong medicine, that is why it can be given only to a person who understands how it works and is absolutely serious about quitting drinking. Antabuse contraindicative to people with a history of heart disease, mental illness or an allergy to antabuse. Pregnant women are also prohibited to take antabuse. So it is a great idea to consult a physician prior to starting with alcoholism treatment.
Note that antabuse is efficient only in case of long-term use. In case a person takes one tablet, he can simply start drinking in several days again. Excellent news is that European investigations showed that the longer people use antabuse, the more efficient it is, since they develop a habit of not drinking. So your health is in your hands, as is your future. |
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