Alcoholics' attitudes toward and experiences with disulfiram.
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.
Liskow
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Kansas City VAMC, Missouri 64128.
Nickel
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Tunley
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Powell
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Penick
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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
D004221:Disulfiram