Addiction Treatment: Methadone Facts

Question: Antabuse as alcohol addiction treatment?

(Posted by: on 2010-08-28 06:44:51)

Is it effective? how it works?

Posted by: malacheck on 2010-08-28, 06:57:47

It doesn't treat addiction so much as make you have a highly unpleasant physical reaction to alcohol if you drink. These effects include flushing of the face, headache, nausea, vomiting, chest pain, weakness, blurred vision,mental confusion, sweating, choking, breathing difficulty, and anxiety. So it can be highly effective in preventing drinking. Provided that the person being treated takes the antabuse as directed ...

Posted by: Zach Viva on 2010-08-28, 08:26:31

Topiramate is to help people to fight alcohol addiction. This is one of the best pills for the medication. However, experts and research shows that there is no instant cure for alcoholic addiction. Pills will help the process, but the cure needs certain therapy to make it effective.

Posted by: Ted P on 2010-08-29, 04:23:26

It is effective. The experience is very unpleasant that the drinker would wish they had not taken the alcohol. However, addiction needs bothd medication and other types of therapy to be successful good luck