title: Alcoholics' attitudes toward and experiences with disulfiram.
abstract: We studied 345 alcoholic inpatients utilizing a 43-item questionnaire designed to assess these patients' attitudes toward and experiences with disulfiram. A surprisingly high number of patients who had received disulfiram drank ethanol while taking or within 1 week of stopping disulfiram and experienced a disulfiram ethanol reaction. This finding and others derived from the questionnaire are reported, and the potential implications of the findings are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Kansas City VAMC, Missouri 64128.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Liskow
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Nickel
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tunley
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Powell
authors.forename: E C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Penick
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000187:drug effects; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D001294:Attitude to Health; D004221:Disulfiram / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital
chemical_list: D004221:Disulfiram