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Addicted To Alcohol And Cannot Sleep Without Drinking And Gets Hypertensive. How To Overcome This?

Posted on Mon, 28 Oct 2013

Question: My dad has became addicted to Alcool and he became very abusive lately. I spoke to him number of times but he says he can not sleep without drinking, he gets hypertension issues as well when does not drink. How should I handle the situation, I am confident I can tell him to visit some doctor. But which doctor, what kind of treatment, which specialist should I visit. is it safe? Please guide me....

Answered by Dr. Raju A.T (7 hours later)

Brief Answer: XXXXXXX medicine specialist

Detailed Answer:
Hi,

Thanks for your query.

First I would recommend a visit to a XXXXXXX medicine specialist to assess his Hypertension status and rule out cardiac risk.

To help him in quitting the habit you may have to admit him in a de-addiction centre under a addiction medicine specialist.

Regards,

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar

Follow up: Dr. Raju A.T (5 hours later)

You are referring to de additction specialist, is it psycahtrist or some other specialist...because there are so many doctors who claim de addiction treatment but have deifferent speciality...can you please help me to suggest which specialist will be suitable for mu dad's case..Thank You

Answered by Dr. Raju A.T (40 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Deaddiction specialist

Detailed Answer:
Hi,

Sorry for late reply.

Yes, you are right as doctor of many specialties work as deaddiction specialists too.I suggest you to take your fat her to a deaddiction center where in well trained or experienced specialist would be available.

Regards,

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar