[Tiapride and alcoholism].

The physician-patient relationship plays a major part in the management. The consultations should be extended and fruitful for the patient, but the physician should also provide pharmacodynamic help and to achieve this tiapride is of value. Tiapride is effective against disorders of sleep, of affect and of behaviour. Twenty patients were given 300 mg tiapride daily (1 tablet three times a day) for one month. Results were as follows: in disturbances of sleep: 83,3% good results; in disorders of affect: 79% good results; in behavioural disorders: 77% good results; in alcoholic tremor: 100% good results. In the series studied tolerance was excellent in 18 cases. Only two patients had orthostatic hypotension which did not require any modification in the treatment. Tiapride therefore proves a highly effective therapeutic agent in chronic alcoholism, providing rapid action, good results and excellent tolerance with small dosages.