Disulfiram treatment linked with probation.

Probation linked supervised disulfiram in the treatment of habitual drunken offenders: results of a pilot study.

Sixteen habitual drunken offenders agreed to take disulfiram in liquid form under supervision as a condition of a probation order. They knew that failure to take medication, as with failure to observe any other condition of probation, could result in their being returned to court. Three defaulted but only two of the remainder committed further offences. Nine were entirely successful. At the end...

Disulfiram Treatment of Alcoholism

P to the completion of this well­designed scientific study, which was conducted at nine Veterans Administration Medical Centers, the medication disulfiram (Antabuse®) was controversial in the treatment of alcoholism. The controversy over its efficacy was rooted in the lack of sophisticated scientific data on which to base its effectiveness. Fuller and colleagues used state­of­the­art clinical r...

Treatment of skid-row alcoholics with disulfiram.

The trial was both an early demonstration of the potential of disulfiram in the right circumstances and of sanctions contingent on (effectively) abstinence. This entry is our analysis of a study considered particularly relevant to improving outcomes from drug or alcohol interventions in the UK. The original study was not published by Findings; click Title to order a copy. Free reprints may be a...

Treatment of alcoholic methadone-maintenance patients with disulfiram.

Invited Review Recent Developments in Disulfiram Treatment

This paper reviews the controlled studies which have led to the increasing recognition that supervised disulfiram is one of the few demonstrably effective interventions in alcoholism, both alone and as an adjunct to psychosocial methods. The specifically behavioural implications of disulfiram treatment are also noted. It examines techniques for maximising disulfiram's therapeutic effectiveness ...