| Social drinking has become quite widespread in the contemporary world. It's sort of a tradition to have a little wine or beer during a meal in a great number of restaurants and houses. Celebration of special days like weddings and other holidays is seldom carried out with no alcoholic drinks. It is also something common to meet up with acquaintances or friends for a short drink after work. That is considered to be a way to stay in touch with them. Expensive alcohol drinks are also present at business lunches and negotiations. Although it is not an alcohol addiction, it still creates a basis for intervention of alcohol in our lives.
Alcohol addicts do not understand the fact that alcohol does harm not only to them, but it causes pain to their families. The rising amount of cases of domestic violence, innocent deaths, suicides is a consequence of deep penetration of alcohol into our life. You should keep in mind 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 use.
Antabuse (aka disulfiram) was the first approved medicine used to cure alcoholic addiction. Its action is founded on stimulating negative reaction if a person continues drinking while using antabuse. It interferes with the process of the alcohol transformation and thus causes hangover symptoms that are 10 times greater that usually. A person that drinks while using antabuse is faced with such disagreeable symptoms as flushing, nausea, chest pain, tachycardia, vertigo, weakness and so on and so forth. Amidst more serious symptoms can be unconsciousness, myocardial infarction, respiratory depression and even death.
As you can see, antabuse is a very strong medication, that is why it can be given only to a person who knows exactly how it works and is completely serious about quitting drinking. Antabuse contraindicated to people with a history of heart disease, mental disease or an allergy to antabuse. Expectant mothers are also prohibited to use antabuse. So it's an excellent idea to consult a physician prior to starting with alcoholism treatment.
Keep in mind that antabuse is efficient only in case of long-term use. If a person takes just one tablet, he may simply start drinking in a couple of days again. Excellent news is that European investigations showed that the longer people use antabuse, the more effective it is, since they develop a habit of not drinking. So your health is in your hands, as is your future. |
