Two drugs with alcoholism cure

Alcoholics very familiar feeling depressed.   And sometimes it becomes a depression, and that the reason that motivates people regularly applied to the bottle. American researchers have found that a very effective way to treat alcoholism alcoholics undergoing depression is a combination of two types of drugs.

Antidepressant Zoloft (sertraline)   in combination with means against alcoholism, naltrexone significantly increases the chances of recovery in people who both suffer from serious depression   and from alcohol addiction As the researchers from the University of Pennsylvania.

In a study on 170 patients, which lasted 14 weeks, researchers found that the use of this combined treatment helped 54% of patients to stop drinking completely. In the control group, participants who received placebo instead Zoloft   or naltrexone, to engage with the amount of alcohol ranged from 21% to 28%.

In addition, combination therapy has resulted in very long and the duration of the period abstinence from alcohol . Patients treated with two drugs at the same time, then were able to survive without drinking, on average, 61 days. A control group - only two weeks. This finding may be very important for the treatment of patients   alcoholism and depression simultaneously.

"When these two pathological conditions are connected, they have a negative effect on each other, which is why the prospects of cure greatly deteriorated, - said study author Helen Pettinato. - So the combination of these diseases not only affects a large number of patients in general, but also worsens the condition of each. The combination sertraline   from Naltrexone   It can be a good practical method of treatment. Both drugs officially approved for use. "

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