[The weaning of alcoholic patients in a general medicine hospital department. The value of tiapride].

Every practitioner knows that, following alcohol withdrawal, the alcoholic patient may experience severe disorders. These are preventable by various measures such as a high fluid intake and therapy with sedatives and/or neuroleptics. Tiapride was given to 25 patients, with satisfactory results in 19. The authors believe that, in this indication, tiapride is effective, well tolerated and reduces the duration of the hospital stay.