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Features of the Formation, Course, and Treatment of Alcohol Dependence in Patients with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

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Results obtained from studies of the clinical features and course of alcohol dependence in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as compared with control patients with alcohol dependence without PTSD, were studied. The first of these groups showed greater progression of illness, constant alcohol abuse, high alcohol tolerance, rapid appearance of altered forms of alcohol intoxication, alcohol amnesia, withdrawal syndrome with a predominant psychopathological component, and more severe social and somatic consequences of alcohol abuse. However, better treatment results were obtained from 12 months of treatment with i.m. Vivitrol in patients with alcoholism combined with PTSD.

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  1. National Scientific Narcology Center, Moscow, Russia

    T. V. Agibalova, A. G. Kuznetsov, G. L. Gurevich & S. A. Shuvalov

  2. Moscow Applied Scientific Narcology Center, Moscow Department of Health, Moscow, Russia

    T. R. Petrosyan

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  1. T. V. Agibalova
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Translated from Zhurnal Nevrologii i Psikhiatrii imeni S. S. Korsakova, Vol. 113, No. 6, Iss. 2, Alcoholism, pp. 33–38, June, 2013.

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Agibalova, T.V., Petrosyan, T.R., Kuznetsov, A.G. et al. Features of the Formation, Course, and Treatment of Alcohol Dependence in Patients with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Neurosci Behav Physi 44, 1068–1072 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11055-014-0026-z

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