Medication plus therapy leads to longer abstinence helpful for alcohol dependence

Alcohol is a big problem of the society. Alcoholism needs to be treated properly. According to a new report published in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research found that the patients who are provided with the step to step proper care approach along with the first medication followed by the additional psychotherapy have been really beneficial for them. It has also been found that the patients who are actually willing to attend psychotherapy leading to the pharmacotherapy benefit. This can help to solve the problem. The co-researcher, Michael Berner, a professor of psychiatry at the Freiburg University Medical Center as well as chief physician at the Rhine-Jura Hospital for Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy in Bad Säckingen, Germany explains, “In Germany, usually care is delivered by addiction counselors. But this is usually not disorder-specific, evidence-based psychotherapy. It is has only been a few years that formal psychotherapy delivered by physicians or clinical psychologists will be reimbursed.”