No need to talk about alcoholism: this disease cripples the life of a person and its friends and relatives. According to reasearch, there about nine million individuals in the U.S. confirmed “addicted to alcohol”, including those who desperately need treatment. However, there are only few effective treatments, which can suppress a person’s addiction to alcohol. One of the well known drugs is disulfiram (Antabuse), which interferes the liver ferment system and causes accumulation of acetaldehyde. This substance causes severe headaches, nausea and vomiting, the memories of which cause a person to refrain from drinking. Clearly, this drug does not treat addition to alcohol, but only causes a disgust to alcohol.
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