disulfiram

Abstract Background and objectives Cancer morbidity and mortality rates remain high, and thus, at present, considerable efforts are focused on finding drugs with higher sensitivity against tumor cells and fewer side effects. Disulfiram (DSF...

Abstract Importance Alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) is one of the most devastating complications of alcohol use disorder (AUD), an increasingly prevalent condition. Medical addiction therapy for AUD may play a role in protecting...

See this message as a web page THE PLACEBO EFFECT *IS* THE MAIN ACTIVE INGREDIENT Medications featured prominently in row 3 of the Alcohol Treatment Matrix on the medical treatment of alcohol dependence. Yet in the first cell we learnt that...

View this message as a web page DRINK, DOCTORS AND MEDICATIONS Time to consolidate the lessons of the five cells of row 3 in the Alcohol Treatment Matrix, all on the treatment of alcohol dependence in a medical context or involving medical...

View this message as a web page: DRINK, DOCTORS AND MEDICATIONS Time to consolidate the lessons of the five cells of row 3 in the Alcohol Treatment Matrix, all on the treatment of alcohol dependence in a medical context or involving medical...

MAKING THE MOST OF MEDICAL CARE Selected, explained and discussed – key research on management of medical interventions and treatment in medical settings. Highlights the remarkable transformation of a US clinic in the 1950s by an open...

‘BEDSIDE’ MANNER MATTERS The previous cell of the Alcohol Treatment Matrix looked mainly at the medications clinicians prescribe. Now we look at the clinicians themselves, and discover that for this ‘disease’, bedside manner is not just a...

DOCTORS AND DRUGS; MEDICAL TREATMENT OF DEPENDENT DRINKING Seminal and key research selected, explained and explored. First cell of row three enters the domain of doctors and drugs, starting with the study from 1970s London bold enough to...

Conducted in 1962 and 1963 in Atlanta in the USA, the featured article seems the first to have tested whether problem-drinking offenders will take a drug which enforces abstinence by generating deterrent reactions to alcohol, if the...