Evaluation of Tri-Iodothyronine in the Treatment of Acute Alcoholic Intoxication

Abstract

A reliable and effective treatment that could be counted upon to produce rapid sobering of acutely intoxicated patients, with a minimum of hang-over or withdrawal symptoms, would be of obvious value both in the treatment of alcoholism and in medicine generally. Many claims have been advanced in the past for treatments that were said to have all these virtues, but until now not one has proved both safe and effective. Several reports have recently appeared concerning the effects of intravenous or oral administration of tri-iodothyronine in the treatment of both chronic alcoholism and acute intoxication, but these reports are very . . .