Homeopathic potencies of Opium in alcohol dependence: exploratory open-label study
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https://doi.org/10.51910/ijhdr.v11i38.548Keywords:
alcohol dependence, homeopathyAbstract
Background: The conventional pharmacological options for the treatment of alcoholism are limited, which led to the search for solutions in alternative or complementary medicine (CAM). Homeopathy is a CAM modality recognized as medical specialty in Brazil. According to the clinical experience of the early homeopaths, Opium was used to treat patients with alcohol dependence. Aim: to perform a preliminary assessment of the effectiveness and tolerability of fifty-millesimal potencies of Opium in the treatment of alcohol-dependent patients. Methods: exploratory, prospective, open-label trial, with pre-treatment measures as control. Confidence intervals were used to estimate the magnitude of the clinical differences. Results: a total of 14 patients were included, from which 12 were evaluated (intention to treat analysis - ITT). There was a significant reduction in the average daily alcohol consumption (-29.37 units of alcohol/day; 95% CI=10.63; 48.11) and in the severity of alcohol dependence, measured by the mean score of the Short Alcohol Dependence Data questionnaire (-10.17; 95% CI= 4.12; 16.22). No serious adverse events were reported. Randomized controlled studies with larger samples are needed.Downloads
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2021-12-21
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Adler, U. C., Padula, A. E. M., Cesar, A. de T., Adler, M. S., & Galduróz, J. C. F. (2021). Homeopathic potencies of Opium in alcohol dependence: exploratory open-label study. International Journal of High Dilution Research - ISSN 1982-6206, 11(38), 19–24. https://doi.org/10.51910/ijhdr.v11i38.548
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