| Social drinking is rather popular in the modern world. It is kind of a tradition to have a little beer or wine during a meal in a great number of restaurants and houses. Celebrating special days like birthdays and other holidays is seldom carried out without alcohol. It's also commonplace to meet up with acquaintances or friends for a drink or two after work. That is considered as a way to keep in touch with them. Expensive alcoholic beverages are also present at business lunches and negotiations. Though it's not an alcohol abuse, it still provides a foundation to intervention of alcohol in our life.
Alcohol addicts don't realize the fact that alcohol does harm not only to them, but at the same time it causes pain to their close relatives. The rising amount of cases of innocent deaths, suicides, domestic violence is a consequence of alcohol deep penetration into our life. You should realize 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 (also known as disulfiram) was the first approved drug used to treat alcohol addiction. Its action is based on stimulating negative reaction if a person continues drinking while using antabuse. It interferes with the process of the alcohol conversion and in such a way stimulates hangover symptoms that are 10 times greater that usually. A person that drinks while taking antabuse is faced with such unpleasant symptoms as sweating, thirst, chest pain, tachycardia, hypotension, weakness and others. Among more serious symptoms can be respiratory depression, unconsciousness, myocardial infarction and even death.
As you can see, antabuse is a very strong medical product, so it can be given only to a person who realizes how it works and is completely serious about quitting drinking. Antabuse counter-indicative to people with a history of heart disease, mental disease or an allergy to antabuse. Expectant mothers are also prohibited to take antabuse. So it's a wonderful idea to visit a physician before starting with alcoholism curing process.
Keep in mind that antabuse is efficient only in case of long-term use. In case a person takes just one tablet, he may simply start drinking in several days again. Wonderful news is that European investigations showed that the longer people take antabuse, the more effective it is, because they develop a habit of not drinking. So your health is in your hands, as is your future. |
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