Pharmacotherapy of alcohol addiction – new reports

Boreński Grzegorz, Wójcik Magdalena, Poleszak Julita, Szabat Marta, Szabat Przemysław, Milanowska Joanna. Pharmacotherapy of alcohol addiction – new reports. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2019;9(2):295-304. eISNN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2573352 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/6605 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part b item 1223 (26/01/2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eissn 2391-8306 7 © The Authors 2019; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 30.01.2019. Revised: 30.01.2019. Accepted: 20.02.2019. Pharmacotherapy of alcohol addiction – new reports Grzegorz Boreński1, Magdalena Wójcik1, Julita Poleszak1, Marta Szabat1, Przemysław Szabat1, Joanna Milanowska2 1Student Science Club at the Department of Applied Psychology, Medical University of Lublin 2Department of Applied Psychology, Medical University of Lublin * E-mail address: grzegorz.borenski@gmail.com ORCID ID: Grzegorz Boreński https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5359-7555 Magdalena Wójcik https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0999-6284 Julita Poleszak https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5166-6262 Marta Szabat https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6309-2027 Przemysław Szabat https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5796-1900 Abstract Introduction: Alcohol use disorder is a worldwide problem. It can affect people and their families regardless of culture or age. Yet there is still no one good form of treatment. Each patient requires an individual approach. Unfortunately, for some patients current available treatments is not enough. There is a great need for new drugs that could be helpful in treating alcohol use disorder. Here, we integrate the information about the disease itself, current available treatments which is disulfiram, acamprostate and naltrexone and new possibilities in pharmacotherapy. The aim of the study: The purpose of this systemic review was to collect and analyse current and new methods of treatment of alcohol addiction. Material and method: Standard criteria were used to review the literature data. The search of articles in the PubMed database was carried out using the following keywords: alcohol, treatment, addiction, pharmacotherapy, psychotherapy. Description of the state of knowledge: Currently the basis for alcoholism treatment are psychosocial and behavioral treatments and classic medicines such as disulfiram, acamprostate, naltrexone. New promising off-label medication are baclofen, gabapentin, pregabaline, topiramate, γ‐hydroxybutyrate, nalmefene, ondansetron andvarenicline. The use of these drugs may bring more benefits than use of older medicines. There are numerous studies proving the effectiveness of these drugs. Summary: Therapy for alcohol addiction could be more effective using other medicines than currently. Further research is needed to confirm the effect of new off-label medicines. Keywords: alcohol, treatment, pharmacotherapy, addictio