New drug may help alcoholics drink 60% less, on condition that they regularly go to counseling. Use of the drug begins in the UK today.
Cure for Alcoholism called nalmefene (Nalmefene) works by suppressing the craving for alcohol, which develops in the human brain. Clinical trials of the drug have shown that regular use of it at the rate of one tablet per day allows for a few months to reduce the use of alcohol from 12 to 5 daily doses. Manufacturers nalmefene emphasize that for its successful application of alcoholics need to visit specialists and go through regular consultations.
Nalmefene is licensed "to reduce alcohol consumption in adult patients with alcohol dependence without withdrawal symptoms (withdrawal) as if these people are not in urgent need of detoxification." If all modern medications for alcoholism help victims of this relationship to become completely sober, the nalmefene such an ambitious task is not intended. This is the first drug designed to reduce the level of alcohol consumption, and not for its complete elimination.
During clinical studies took place through regular consultations with narcologists patients who received nalmefene, were able to reduce drunken periods from 23 days in the month to 9. To do this, they needed to take pills for six months. Moreover, to the attention of the researchers were not classical alcoholics, who sleep on the street benches and lead antisocial lifestyle, and people with a job and a family. That is, those who have been to some extent motivated to fight alcohol abuse. (READ MORE)
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