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Help the alcoholic get out of the bottle with ANTABUSE Brand of Disulfiram. A strong deterrent for the alcoholic who doesn't want to drink. The medical need: Nine million patients in the U.S. need help. They suffer from a disease injurious to their health and to a sense of security in family, job, and community. This disease is also responsible for a high toll in death and injury on the highway. Yet alcoholism, the number one drug abuse problem in the U.S. today, is a relatively controllable disease. Early detection and treatment: Often, you may see an alcoholic patient under another guise. His presenting symptoms or complaints - such as G.I. disorders, circulatory problems, or an accident - do not immediately reveal his alcoholism. Many patients to prefer not to tell you about their drinking problem. Women, in particular, tend to be more secretive and solitary about their drinking. Generalized complaints such as insomnia, headache, depression may offer the first clues in the early detection of alcoholism. Three steps forward: While the etiology of alcoholism remains complex and largely undetermined, the essential therapeutic measure is to stop the alcoholic from drinking. ANTABUSE (disulfiram) can help you help the motivated alcoholic get "out of the battle". If the patient has a sincere desire to stop drinking, but the usual "faltering will", ANTABUSE can help to shore up his resolve. The first step is his agreement to accept supportive drug therapy with ANTABUSE to deter him from drinking. The second step is the decision the patient must make each day to take his alcohol-deterrent medicine. The third step is the maintenance of sobriety with ANTABUSE (disulfiram), allowing him to cooperate in other aspects of a total treatment plan. No chance of cross-addiction: ANTABUSE has been used effectively as a medical adjunct in the control of alcoholism for more than 20 years. Unlike tranquilizers and sedatives, it is from non-habituating, so that there is no chance of cross addiction. It is important, however, to give the patient a clear and detailed description of the effects of ingesting alcohol after he has taken ANTABUSE (even up to 14 days after the last dose of ANTABUSE)…and how this becomes a psychologic benefit in that it deters drinking and helps to enforce sobriety. |
