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Citalopram in the treatment of alcoholism: a double-blind placebo-controlled study
J Tiihonen1, O P Ryynänen, J Kauhanen
1Department of Forensic Psychiatry, University of Kuopio, Finland.
Pharmacopsychiatry
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
The effect of citalopram and placebo in the treatment of alcoholism was studied in a sample of 62 patients with a follow-up period of four months. The results imply that the new 5-HT re-uptake inhibitor citalopram is significantly more effective than placebo in the treatment of alcoholism. The present study indicates that even severe alcoholism may be treated effectively with a generally available psychopharmacological agent.