Methods of alcoholism treatment
Alcoholism (dipsomania, chronic alcohololism, chronic alcoholic intoxication, alcoholic narcomania, ethylism) is progressive disease characterized by pathologic inclination for alcoholic drinks, development of alcohol withdrawal syndrome(abstinence syndrome) when alcohol is not intaken, and in some hard cases — steady somatoneural disorders and psychic degradation.
Treatment period can be divided into three stages, changing one after another:
- I — initial (neurasthetic) stage;
- II — middle (narcotic) stage;
- III — outcoming (encephalopatic) stage.
At the first stage it is obsessive mental inclination for alcohol when the quantity of intaken alcohol is unverifiable. At the second stage a new kind of disorders appears — it is physical alcohol dependence with irresistible addiction to alcoholic drinks, regardless of will, reason, senses, feelings. A complex of somatovegetative abstinent disorders and internal pathological changes appear. Alcoholic psychosis can develop. At the third stage addiction to alcohol acquires compulsive — dominant character. Abstinence syndrome becomes harder. Situation control is lost. Alcoholic dementia is developed. Somatic complications become harder. Very often alcoholic psychosis appear.
Our medical centre suggests professional alcohol treatment programmes consisting of two phases: I — intensive therapy of acute states (alcoholic intoxication, alcohol withdrawal syndrome). II — preventive (antirelapse) therapy. The clinic provides drug and non-drug methods of alcoholism treatment.
Methods of drug treatment:
- complex programmes of alcohol addiction treatment;
- removing the state of dipsomania and breaking addiction for spirits;
- carrying out detoxication therapy taking into account concomitant somatic diseases;
- new methods of woman alcoholism treatment;
- methods of coding ("Disulfiram", "Tetlong", "Ambolex", "Lidevin" and others);
- case of hard drinking narcologists visit the patient to render him the first aid.
Methods of non-drug treatment:
- diagnostics of the organism on the cell level;
- psychotherapeutic (computer) programmes based on the 25th picture effect and Vaise chromotherapy;
- coding on alcohol dose using virtual technology;
- reflexotherapy;
- laser therapy;
- electric neurostimulation;
- psychotherapy of alcohol addiction based on method of Dianalid (individual and family).
Depending on the patient's state at the moment he comes to medical centre, the treatment can be carried out in hospital as well as ambulatory.
Out-patient treatment of alcoholism begins at the moment the patient comes to the doctor for diagnostics and care. The doctor carefully examines the patient, analyses the reasons that led to alcohol addiction and after that the doctor works out individual treatment plan, prescribes specific medicine, carries out psychotherapy, gives recommendations to the patient and his relatives.
 
The following treatment consists of three stages:
I stage — treatment of alcohol intoxication.
Spread before opinion that ethanol intoxication is state of comparatively good quality, has been revised nowadays. Clinical presentations of alcohol intoxication are hard to distinguish from symptoms of overdose by other CNS suppressors (benzodiazepine tranquilizers, barbiturates, and others). Typical signs of alcohol intoxication are deep tendon reflex depression, babbled voice, staggering gait; in some hard cases CNS suppression can develop into sopor and coma.
II stage — treatment of alcohol withdrawal syndrome.
Alcohol withdrawal syndrome can be regarded as state opposite to alcohol intoxication in some of its clinical presentations and required medical care.
Development of alcohol withdrawal syndrome should be connected with three main factors:
- ethanol deprivation with ethanol tolerant people;
- intoxication by products of ethanol oxidative metabolism;
- metabolic disorders accompanied by chronic alcoholization, and disorders caused by malnutrition of the patients (during hard drinking people eat practically nothing).
Antiabstinent therapy carried out in the centre includes two main components:
- treatment aimed to relieve symptoms of ethanol withdrawal;
- proper detoxication, the aim of which is normalization of homeostasis.
III stage — preventive (antirelapse) therapy.
For preventing breakups with the alcohol addicts, new methods of metabolic therapy in combination with prolonged pharmaceutical dosage forms are used in our medical centre. The stage of preventive therapy in combination with psychotherapeutic correction permits to cope with the patient's addiction to alcohol.
 
Active antialcohol therapy is combined with some non-drug methods — diagnostics of the organism on the cell level, MIMEX®-technology based on the 25th picture effect and Vaise chromotherapy, coding on alcohol dose using psychotherapeutic (computer) programmes. For obtaining maximum effect and results we use laser therapy, acupuncture, massage, methods of electric neurostimulation and different kinds of psychotherapy (individual and family ).
 
During two first weeks from the beginning of treatment the patient:
- gets rid of irritability and psychological discomfort;
- capacity for work increases;
- memory is improving;
- sleep and appetite become normal;
- the work of internal is regulated;
- steady indifference to alcohol is formed.
After finishing treatment the patients are under medical supervision of our centre
for a long time. It let us maintain supportive therapy and the danger of relapse is reduced to minimum.
To our patients undergoing treatment and rehabilitation in hospital we suggest quiet comfortable 2-place wards with TV, telephone and shower and at the same time full and thorough medical care and nourishing diet considering the specific character of disease.
 
Important!
Conditions on which the patient can be treated:
- patient can come to the clinic in the state of hard drinking as well as in the state of remission;
- patient should not be ill with mental or infection diseases or have an acute myocardic infraction or acute stroke!
Our clinic guarantees:
- treatment programmes individually chosen;
- anonymity and confidentiality;
- psychotherapeutic help during six months or in case of rise of thirst to spirits;
For your information!
The following facts speak about approaching alcohol addiction:
- you feel a need for drinking spirits to relieve the stress, depression, tiredness or other unpleasant feelings;
- you drink larger and larger quantity of spirits not displaying any signs of intoxication (increasing tolerance to alcohol);
- you don't remember some events that take place when you are drinking (lapse of memory is observed);
- you feel guilty or you feel pains of remorse for your behaviour when you are drunken;
- your relatives and friends worry because you drink too much;
- you get irritated and aggressive when you hear their remarks or if there is no possibility for you to have more drink.
If at least two of these signs can be applied to you, we suggest you to pass the test on chemical addiction or to apply for free of charge consultation.
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