Conditioned-Reflex Treatment of Alcoholism

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IN THE first article about the conditioned-reflex therapy its rationale and technic were discussed.1 The purpose of the present study is to show the risks, indications, contraindications, efficacy and psychotherapeutic aspects.To establish a reflex association between alcoholic beverages and vomiting, emetine hydrochloride is used as the unconditioned stimulus. The pharmacologic interest in emetine started with its use for treatment of amebic dysentery, liver abscesses and alveolar pyorrhea.Emetine is one of the alkaloids of ipecacuanha. Its pharmacologic properties were the object of extensive studies during the greater part of the nineteenth century. However, not until 1893 did Paul and . . .

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