Method for treating emotional or mental illness and emotional or mental illness concomitant with seizures
AssigneeJohn S. Nagle
InventorLee G. Dante
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a method for treating depression associated with alcoholism in a patient comprising administering to the patient a pharmacologically effective dose of an opioid antagonist, and a pharmacologically effective dose of at least one drug compound selected from the group consisting of a tricyclic antidepressant, an a-typical antidepressant, and lithium.
Claims7
A method of treating depression associated with alcoholism, comprising administering to a patient a pharmacologically effective dose of an opioid antagonist having a pentacyclic nucleus structurally analogous to naltrexone, naloxone, and nalmefene, and a phatmacologically effective dose of an antidepressant compound selected from the group consisting of a serotonin reuptake inhibitor, a tricyclic antidepressant, an atypical antidepressant, and lithiun, their pharmacologically effective salts and esters, or combinations thereof.
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