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Medication in the treatment of alcohol dependence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Jonathan Chick
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Social, cultural, emotional and biological influences determine whether people drink to excess and whether they then experience harm or cause harm to others (Cook, 1994). Psychosocial treatments for alcohol dependence are only modestly successful, with most studies finding that at least 50% of patients return to harmful drinking in the following year. In the past decade there has been new evidence for the role of pharmacological treatments in reducing harm from drinking and in preventing relapse.

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Advances in Psychiatric Treatment , Volume 2 , Issue 6 , November 1996 , pp. 249 - 257
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 1996 

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