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All it is impossible to cover in one article, and it is not necessary, because drug and alcohol abuse has for this purpose enormous practical guides, monographs, textbooks for medical students and faculty, doctors and nurses. Dwell only briefly describe the main approaches to the impact of the syndrome of pathological craving for alcohol and the development of aversion to it. The essence of the so-called "Reflex temperance therapy is a combination of alcohol with different substances that cause nausea and vomiting, to develop a negative conditioned reflex and the achievement of aversion to alcoholic beverages. In this toshnotno-emetic response appears here as the unconditioned stimulus. For this purpose, use apomorphine, emetic herb mixture on the basis of Thermopsis, thyme, fish oil, as well as large doses of nicotinic acid, lithium nicotinate (Lithonia), sodium thiosulfate, unitiol and other methods of "sensitizing temperance therapy" based on the use of funds, causing increased sensitivity (sensitization) to alcohol and alcohol intolerance, intolerance to them. For this purpose, suitable disulfiram. Preparations of this group are suitable for relatively long-term maintenance (of anti-) treatment, as well as for use of deposited forms of disulfiram (implantation esperal). Sensitizing effect of alcohol has also metronidazole mechanism of action which, as it turns out, is to inhibit the activity of alcohol dehydrogenase. It was also established that the drug inhibits the pathological craving for alcohol. Sensitization to alcohol may also cause drugs furazolidone, furadonin, levamisole, nicotinic acid, etc. A new direction in the Addictions is the search for means and methods of neutralizing eyforiziruyuschih effects (so-called "suppressive therapy"). Established, for example, that these properties drug antakson. Scientific inquiry in this direction continues. However, a prerequisite for effective treatment of alcohol dependence is a radical patient's motivation for getting rid of dependence and of alcohol problems. To this end, drug and alcohol abuse has a large arsenal of methods of psychological diagnosis, psychological correction, psychotherapy and rehabilitation. References 1. Voloshin PV, Mіnko O.І., Lіnsky IV is spіvavt. Ukrayinsky DSFA psihonevrologії. Volume 9, (2001). 2. Vilensky BS Emergency state in neuropathology: a guide for physicians. L.: Medicine (1986). 3. Sosin IK, Chuev YF Laser therapy for alcoholism. Kharkov: Polygraphservice (2001). 4. Sosin IK, Bespalov, JG, Artemchuk AF, Chuev YF Ekologіchna medicine. № 1 (2000). Medicus Amicus, 2002, # 3

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