Aversion Therapy in the Treatment of Alcoholism: Success and Failure
Aversion Therapy in the Treatment of Alcoholism: Success and Failure
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厌恶疗法治疗酗酒:成功与失败
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发表时间:
1985
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
P. Nathan
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作者:
P. Nathan
A very wide range of behavioral treatment methods have been tried out on alcoholic patients (see Nathan and Niaura’ for an overview of these efforts). For more than 30 years following the initial use of a behavioral approach to alcoholism in 19292 however, the treatment of the alcoholic by behavioral means was largely confined to the aversive conditioning therapies. Almost all of this treatment was by means either of electric shock or nausea-inducing drugs to induce aversion. Although two other aversion-induction stimuli succinylcholine chloride dehydrate, a drug that induces total apneic (respiratory) paralysis,’ and aversive images, said to induce aversion by imaginal means4 have also been employed, electrical and chemical aversion conditioning with nausea-inducing drugs have been the choice of those who treat alcoholism by aversive techniques. Recent research by Revusky and his colleaguesS suggests that lithium carbonate may be a safer and more effective aversive agent for chemical aversion conditioning, though additional studies of efficacy and safety are necessary before the drug can be routinely substituted for emetine, the drug now used most widely for this purpose.