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1. Comparative Clinical Evaluation of Chlordiazepoxide and Promazine in Treatment of Alcohol-withdrawal Syndrome

Author

H. Kalant and G. Sereny

Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty, Biomedical Research, Statistics as Topic, Psychoses, Alcoholic, Chlordiazepoxide, Placebos, Drug Therapy, Drug withdrawal symptoms, Tremor, medicine, Humans, Alcohol-Induced Disorders, Psychiatry, Promazine, General Environmental Science, business.industry, Mental Disorders, General Engineering, Blood Pressure Determination, Galvanic Skin Response, Papers and Originals, General Medicine, medicine.disease, Diet, Substance Withdrawal Syndrome, Alcoholism, Clinical research, Alcohols, Anesthesia, Alcohol withdrawal syndrome, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Hypotension, Sleep, Skin conductance, business, Clinical evaluation, medicine.drug
Published
1965

2. Acute Alcoholic Psychoses and Related Syndromes: Psychosocial and Clinical Characteristics and their Implications.

Author

Gross, Milton M., Rosenblatt, Sidney M., Lewis, Eastlyn, Chartoff, Susan, and Malenowski, Beverly

Subjects
ALCOHOL withdrawal syndrome, PATIENTS, PROGNOSIS, SPACETIME, SOCIAL psychology, CROSS-cultural differences
Abstract

An intensive study was undertaken based upon the chart review of a large number of consecutive male admissions for acute alcohol withdrawal syndromes to a university psychiatric service. Basic psychosocial characteristics were examined along with the characteristics of the presenting picture and the clinical course. The patients had been treated with paraldehyde along principles described elsewhere. The analysis of this data would document an extensive experience gained in a circumscribed zone of time and space. It was expected that it would contribute to a better understanding of the natural history of this group of related withdrawal syndromes by yielding information about etiologic and prognostic factors. It would also summarize and make possible the evaluation of the treatment program. It would also serve to make a large body of data available for subsequent cross-cultural, cross-temporal and cross-therapeutic comparisons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
1972
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3. Measurements of Change during Alcohol Withdrawal in Chronic Alcoholics.

Author

Burdick, J. A., Johnson, L. C., and Smith, J. W.

Subjects
COMPLICATIONS of alcoholism, PEOPLE with alcoholism, ALCOHOL withdrawal syndrome, ALCOHOLISM, ALCOHOL drinking
Abstract

Describes the behavioral symptoms during alcohol withdrawal in chronic alcoholics. Measurement of changes during an alcohol withdrawal period; Means of recording skin potential responses from electrodes during the withdrawal; Ways to help establish a common drinking baseline for all subjects.

Published
1970
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4. Treatment of the Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome

Author

Douglas W. Thomas and Daniel X. Freedman

Subjects
Paraldehyde, Statistics as Topic, Psychoses, Substance-Induced, Psychoses, Alcoholic, medicine, Humans, Chlorpromazine, Promazine, Delirium tremens, business.industry, Significant difference, General Medicine, Prognosis, medicine.disease, Substance Withdrawal Syndrome, Alcoholism, Psychotic Disorders, Alcohols, Triflupromazine, Alcohol withdrawal syndrome, Anesthesia, Anxiety, medicine.symptom, business, medicine.drug
Abstract

SINCE THE PUBLICATION of Bumke's 1 paper in 1902, paraldehyde has been generally accepted as a useful drug in the treatment of delirium tremens. With the introduction of the phenothiazines, these drugs have gained clinical acceptance, but there are few controlled studies reported in the literature. Friedhoff and Zitrin 2 demonstrated that patients receiving paraldehyde recovered more quickly than those treated with chlorpromazine. Hart 3 found no significant difference in the recovery time of delirium tremens patients treated with promazine compared to those treated with paraldehyde. In patients without delirium tremens, the group treated with promazine showed a shorter duration of anxiety and agitation. Laties and colleagues, 4 in a double-blind study comparing promazine and chlorpromazine in delirium tremens, stated that "the drugs were essentially indistinguishable in performance." Gruenwald and associates 5 concluded that patients with mild to moderate symptoms responded promptly to either promazine or triflupromazine, but patients in

Published
1964