RESUMO
UNLABELLED: Presents extensive reports of detoxification and habit loosing trials in 9 male heroine addicts, 19-26 yr. The therapeutic programs were centered on gabergic drugs, low doses tricyclic antidepressants and benzodiazepines, and acupuncture (main points: 8 GB; nasal GB; 1 GB; 3 L; 4 LI; 36 S; 7 H; auricular Shen men) and were continued weekly at the Mental Health Outpatients Service, after discharge from the hospital. RESULTS: 2 Ss, personally checked, abstinent 6 months after their discharge; 4 Ss heard as abstinent and 3 Ss relapsed. Technique, course and times of the therapeutic program seem to be one of the key factors for success.
Assuntos
Terapia por Acupuntura , Ansiolíticos/uso terapêutico , Antidepressivos Tricíclicos/uso terapêutico , Dependência de Heroína/terapia , Adulto , Cálcio , Estimulantes do Sistema Nervoso Central/uso terapêutico , Quimioterapia Combinada , Terapia por Estimulação Elétrica , Etanolaminas/uso terapêutico , Estudos de Avaliação como Assunto , Glutamina/uso terapêutico , Dependência de Heroína/tratamento farmacológico , Humanos , Ácidos Cetoglutáricos/uso terapêutico , Masculino , Piritioxina/uso terapêutico , Triptofano/uso terapêutico , Vitaminas/uso terapêuticoRESUMO
The present study was designed to examine whether acupuncture is useful in the treatment of some disorders of the vascular system as the thromboangiitis obliterans of the extremities, the Raynaud's disease and in the therapy of ulcers by venous stasis. From the data presented it appears that acupuncture is effective in releasing the arterial spasm and especially in increasing the circulation in collateral vessels. In order to prove the efficiency of acupuncture in the above disorders, the response to acupuncture was compared with that obtained by a pharmacological treatment with lumbar paravertebral block.