[Experimental verification of the use of lithium oxybutyrate for the drug prevention of alcoholism relapses].

It was found that lithium oxybutyrate suppresses voluntary consumption of 5% ethanol solution in rats with preliminarily formed alcohol motivation, slows down the formation of alcohol addiction under conditions of forced consumption of 5% ethanol solution and exerts a positive effect on general state of the animals subjected to a long-term action of ethanol by improving the conditioned reflex activity of the central nervous system and stimulating defensive-adaptational mechanisms of the organism.