[Differentiated treatment of patients with chronic alcoholism using modern psychotropic drugs].

By using a clinico-catamnestical method the authors studied the effectiveness of different forms of treatment in 159 chronic alcoholic patients (placebo, antabuse and psychotropic drugs). A clinical homogenous group of patients by age, form and duration of the disease, as well as by the degree of degradation, were compared. These data testify to the expediency of a differentiated use of psychotropic drugs depending upon the personality, mental state of the chronic alcoholic patients, the stage and character of the disease in each specific case.