Dipropylacetamide and hypnosis in drug dependence
Bocci, U.; Beretta, G.
Minerva Medica 73(13): 711-714
1982
ISSN/ISBN: 0026-4806 PMID: 6803193 Document Number: 190622
Ten drug addicted women, inpatient in a judicial psychiatric hospital, after detoxification were treated by means of valproic acid amide (1200 mg/daily for the first 14 days, then reduced to 600 mg/daily) and hypnosis, for a period ranging between 46 and 180 days. According to lowering of the intensity of 6 target symptoms, positive results on habit loosing were checked in 7 out of 10 Ss. To these results, right importance is attributed even to the forcibly removal from addicts' environment.