Aspectos relacionados ao etilismo e sua farmacoterapia

Abstract

Alcohol abuse and a public health problem. The research describes problems related to alcohol abuse presenting the linked difficulties and available treatments. A brief account of the history and the legislation in force in Brazil about the subject, the effects, and the difference between compulsion, tolerance and dependence, something essential to understand the purpose of this research, was made. After studies, the forms of treatment were analyzed, based on the available literature on the subject. The research was bibliographical and the method consisted in the literary revision on the alcoholism. The present research was elaborated by the fact that alcohol is the depressant drug of the central nervous system most consumed in Brazil, causing a series of social maladjustments. The general objective was to describe the aspects related to alcohol abuse and the drug therapy used for alcoholism.