Alcoholism Treatment
Today in the world there is a trend increase in the number of people exposed to severe illness - alcoholism. Most often alcoholism ill people living in an unfavorable social environment, having a family history, or subject to psychological pressure. To fight this problem today directed the efforts of health care organizations, various charitable organizations, and the media.
For the treatment of alcoholism used numerous methods: psychotherapy, individual and group, the society of Alcoholics Anonymous , drug treatment. The use of a particular method depends on various factors such as the duration and amount of alcohol consumption, the degree of availability of treatments in each case.
Methods of psychotherapy aimed at helping the sick person to overcome the circumstances it on drinking. They also help a person cope with the serious consequences of the disease - the aggression and the gradual degradation of the individual. The same principle works and the society of Alcoholics Anonymous .
The essence of the medical treatment is the treatment of mental disorders arising from prolonged alcohol intake, in reducing the patient's body needs in alcohol, in the elimination of positive emotions that arise after consumption. There are a number of drugs aimed at combating alcoholism. They are selected depending on the condition of the patient, in order to avoid the risk of overdose, effects on the liver, toxicological poisoning.
Medications used to treat alcoholism -. It tranquilizers, antidepressants, lithium, neuroleptics
the essence of action of tranquilizers is that they help to relieve withdrawal symptoms syndrome and anxiety of the patient. Often there are times when alcoholics begin to abuse tranquilizers and alcoholism in addition to becoming drug addicts.
Antidepressants are appointed in order to overcome depression, occurring in patients. Depression in its turn is caused by lesions of the brain and nervous system. Cases of suicide attempt among patients.
Appointment of lithium in the treatment of alcoholism is due to its ability to suppress the pleasant conditions caused by intake of alcoholic beverages. In addition, it helps for a short time to cope with the depressive state and voraciously. But after a while drinking is resumed.
Antipsychotics are prescribed to patients with nervous and anxious states. These drugs can cause virtually no patients addiction, abuse cases among patients are rare. Furthermore, such drugs are effective in serious mental disorders caused by alcoholism, but unfortunately, they can not cure the patient of alcoholism.
As we can see, the operation of all of the drugs in the treatment of alcoholism is aimed at eliminating the depression, psychiatric disorders, and also to reduce the negative effects of alcohol on the physical condition of the person. Some medicines should not only be able to cope with alcoholism, for the full treatment requires a set of measures, including psychotherapy. But above all, you need a great desire to be cured by the patient. Willpower plus comprehensive treatment can help to cope with the disease.
Often there are cases when relatives of alcoholics trying without his knowledge to begin treatment medical drugs in the hope of a cure. Doing this is not only wrong but also dangerous, because in parallel with alcohol a person starts to get more and doses of medicines, which can lead to overdose, toxicological poisoning, and even death. The desired result to achieve and do not succeed, because the medication drugs only help to cope with the adverse results of alcohol intake, but do not help to get rid of dependence.
Any treatment of alcoholism medical methods (encoding, laser coding, hypnosis, drug treatment clinics) itself It is not effective.
The first step for the treatment of alcoholism should be the realization of an alcoholic himself of his illness and the desire to undergo rehabilitation for alcoholism . Only willpower, combined with the efforts of relatives and doctors, can help overcome the disease.
