ADJUVANT TRAZODONE IN THE TREATMENT OF ALCOHOLISM: AN OPEN STUDY
Open Access
- 1 July 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Alcohol and Alcoholism
- Vol. 33 (4) , 362-365
- https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.alcalc.a008405
Abstract
Serotonergic drugs have been proven to be helpful to alcoholics in maintaining abstinence. In this open study, we report that the atypical antidepressant trazodone at low doses was able to significandy decrease craving for alcohol, depressive, and anxious symptoms in a number (25) of detoxified alcohol-dependent subjects after 3 months of treatment. Trazodone may, therefore, be an adjuvant in the therapy of alcoholism.Keywords
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