Psychopharmacotherapy in the treatment of alcohol-related disorders

The development of neuroscience, particularly the understanding of the neurotransmitter system, has led to an ever greater use of psychopharmaceutical drugs in the treatment of alcoholism in the last twenty years. The particular interest in the existence of alcohol craving as the possible negative influence causing the inability to establish abstinence and the ever greater presence of a co-morbidity of alcohol addiction and other mental disturbances opened Lip the possibilities for the application of numerous psychopharmaceutical drugs during the course of treatment. All the knowledge from the field of psychotherapy and social therapeutic activities on one hand and the efficiency of individual psychopharmaceutical medication in establishing and maintaining abstinence during the course of addiction treatment on the other, had enhanced the possibilities for quality treatment and rehabilitation of patients addicted to alcohol.