OBJECTIVES: To describe the profile of alcoholic patients to whom Naltrexone is prescribed for treatment. METHODS: Prospective, for a descriptive cross sectional study evaluating 802 patients by a questionnaire specifically designed. Applied by 401 physicians during the Spring and Summer 1998. RESULTS: Predominance 4 men by woman average age 41.6 years old, residents in towns (75%), with their families (77%) and active workers (50%). Evolution of their alcoholism is 14.9 years. Preferred spirits: distilled liquors (63.3%) beer (57.8%) and wine (52%). They often refer "loss of control" (66.2%), ingest 25-100 drinks (UBE) a week and a quarter more than 15 UBE per day. Other associated psychopathologies were observed in 83% of them and 33.2% referred drug abuse. DISCUSSION: Displaced clinical profile with regard to the alcoholics general group being this a younger population with certain preservation of their social, labour and family behaviour with a shorter evolution. It is remarkable the high frequency of "loss of control" in these patients as selection criteria.
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