Alcohol Abuse, Addiction on the Rise

Alcohol abuse, addiction on the rise

Filed under: treatment of alcoholism

The best treatment is abstinence, supported by a strong network of family and friends. According to the National Institutes of Health, “The ideal approach to treatment is to help the person realize how much their alcohol use is harming their life and …
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'Can a shot in the arm really cure drug and alcohol addiction?'

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DAVE: It's an extended release form of Naltrexone, and has been used to treat cravings in alcoholics for the last four years or so—the FDA just approved it for the same thing in heroin and other opiate drugs in 2010. What brings it up? BILL: “I really …
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How to Understand Medications used to treat Alcoholism with Dr Rodriquez and delraycenter.com – Now for relapse prevention for alcoholism there are some now that been used that works very well. The old school medications that most people think of when they hear about medication for treatment of alcoholism is antabuse that is the one if you drink it makes you very sick. Basically it blocks an enzyme in the metabolism of alcohol and if you drink alcohol a toxic metabolite will build up and make you very sick, often times will put you in the hospital can be dangerous so it’s not the best medication of choice to start with most people. Naltrexone and naltrexone base medication such as vivotrol are more commonly used and work very well and are a lot safer than antabuse. There is also campral which is used to reduce cravings, the more popular one now a days is vivotrol which is naltrexone in the form of a shot that last a month and it does work better than the pill naltrexone, it helps relapse prevention if somebody drinks they don’t really get sick but they don’t feel great and they tend not to get the pleasure they use to get from drinking so it helps discourage more drinking. Relapse rates are lower on these medications and they are fine choices for use on most patients. Raul J Rodriguez MD, a double Board Certified Psychiatrist and Addictionologist, discusses medications used to treat alcoholism. delraycenter.com