Drugs for Relapse Prevention of Alcoholism

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Spanagel, Rainer (Editor), Mann, Karl F. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2005.
• Series: Milestones in Drug Therapy MDT
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Pharmacology.; Psychiatry.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.

Alcoholism is a pathological behavioural syndrome, characterised by comp- sive alcohol use, craving and relapses, even recurring after many years of abstinence. It is suggested that chronic alcohol abuse leads to persistent changes within several neurochemical pathways in the brain and furthermore t...