Volume 3, issue 3
Uzależnienie od alkoholu
New perspectives in pharmacotherapy of alcohol dependence in the light o current knowledge about mechanisms of action of habit-forming substances
WOJCIECH KOSTOWSKI1
1. Zakładu Farmakologii i Fizjologii Układu Nerwowego IPiN w Warszawie
Postępy Psychiatrii i Neurologii, 1994, 3, 309-324
Keywords: dependences, alcohol, psychoactive drugs, mechanisms of action, pharmacotherapy
Abstract
The paper presents the state-of-the-art knowledge about biological determinants of psychoactive substance dependence and of alcohol dependence in particular. Advances in the research on neurotransmitter mechanisms of action of habit-forming substances are discussed, and attempts at pharmacotherapy are outlined on this background. (Eds.)
Address for correspondence:
Pro! Wojciech Kostowski, Zakład Farmakologii i Fizjologii Układu Nerwowego IPiN,
Al. Sobieskiego 1/9,
02-957 Warszawa