1. At present, the main guiding principle is to relieve acute withdrawal symptoms and minimize the recurrence rate. At present, there are mainly drugs approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), such as naltrexone and acamprosate, in addition to other drugs with positive efficacy.
2. Patients with alcohol dependence may have symptoms such as tremor, nausea, vomiting, sweating, emotional excitement and convulsions. Treatment can be replaced by sedative-hypnotic drugs or anti-anxiety drugs that cross-rely on alcohol, and diazepam (diazepam) is commonly used. Once the substitution is successful, the withdrawal symptoms disappear, and then the substitution drugs are gradually reduced until the drug is stopped.
3. Other drugs used to treat alcohol dependence include selective 5-HT reuptake inhibitors, such as fluoxetine and sertraline.
Second, surgical treatment.
This disease does not require surgical treatment.
Third, other treatments.
1, abstinence treatment: this is the only fundamental treatment for chronic alcoholism and the key to success. In view of the withdrawal symptoms caused by early withdrawal, most patients with mild symptoms basically do not need treatment, patients with mild and moderate symptoms can be treated in outpatient department, patients with moderate and severe symptoms should be treated in hospital, and alcohol sources should be eliminated during hospitalization, and then they will be converted to rehabilitation treatment after treatment has achieved certain results. At the same time, the treatment progress of various patients can be flexibly controlled according to their alcohol dependence.
2. Psychotherapy: Through psychotherapy, patients can realize their illness, take the initiative to ask for abstinence, and make alcoholics psychologically aware of the danger and seriousness of alcoholism. At the same time, transposition conditioning therapy can be used to make patients relate their addiction to themselves or perceived events and deeply understand its harmfulness, thus weakening or correcting bad addiction, warning themselves and restraining their desire to drink. If alcoholics really realize the harm of alcohol dependence and want to quit drinking, there are many other treatments that can help them recover and get rid of alcohol dependence.