Antabuse Research Paper

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Aversive taste treatments are treatments that are given to the addicted individual to try to simulate a bad experience with the substance. It works by creating a unwanted or undesirable feeling when the person begins to start a unneeded behavior such as drinking alcohol. One method is Nausea Aversion Therapy Treatment which gives the alcoholic a case of extreme nausea when drinking alcohol though some of it is medically induced which is overt sanitization which relies on a drug that has been used to help treat alcohol since the 1950’s called Antabuse with its generic name being disulfiram. Antabuse works with dealing with alcoholism because it doesn't allow the digestion system to metabolize alcohol by turning it into acetaldehyde. Nausea is

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