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Suggest Ways To Stop Alcohol Craving While Being On Lonazep For Anxiety

My husband is 28 years old,he is 6 '1 tall and ways 100 kg,he is a frequent drinker,he is suffering from anxiety for the past 3 years,also he takes lonazep 0.25 mg everyday in the morning,please advise me some medicine,so that i can stop his craving for alcohol
Thu, 11 Sep 2014
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Cravings for alcohol are hard to treat.
Lorazepam has an overlap of effect with alcohol and is generally a very bad idea to give to anyone with addiction (especially alcohol) problems.
0.25 mg absolutely lowest dose I've ever seen given..... once a day .. and without liver disease it's a 6-8 hr drug (with liver disease it could easily last more than one day)... seems to be a low dose.
There are several things one can do about alcoholism to transcend the cravings. 1) realize that having them is part of the addiction process and
2) feeling positively that given death / family issues / job issues... that feeling the cravings is feeling like winning the battle
3) discuss it. Meetings, sponsors, a very caring wonderful spouse !
4) drugs that MIGHT do something on it are CAMPRAL and NALOXONE but they more likely block the positive effects from using.
5) antabuse which does Absolutely NOTHING on cravings, but reinforces that you cannot give into the cravings.
hope this helps, and thank you.
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Suggest Ways To Stop Alcohol Craving While Being On Lonazep For Anxiety

Cravings for alcohol are hard to treat. Lorazepam has an overlap of effect with alcohol and is generally a very bad idea to give to anyone with addiction (especially alcohol) problems. 0.25 mg absolutely lowest dose I ve ever seen given..... once a day .. and without liver disease it s a 6-8 hr drug (with liver disease it could easily last more than one day)... seems to be a low dose. There are several things one can do about alcoholism to transcend the cravings. 1) realize that having them is part of the addiction process and 2) feeling positively that given death / family issues / job issues... that feeling the cravings is feeling like winning the battle 3) discuss it. Meetings, sponsors, a very caring wonderful spouse ! 4) drugs that MIGHT do something on it are CAMPRAL and NALOXONE but they more likely block the positive effects from using. 5) antabuse which does Absolutely NOTHING on cravings, but reinforces that you cannot give into the cravings. hope this helps, and thank you.