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Antabuse|ˈæntəbjuːz|
Also antabuse.
[f. anti- + abuse n.]
A proprietary name for disulfiram, a substance which causes a severe unpleasant reaction to the subsequent ingestion of alcohol and is given as tablets in the treatment of alcoholism.
1948Lancet 25 Dec. 1002/1 We have further examined this peculiar effect of diethylthiuramdisulphide (trade name ‘Antabuse’). 1950Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 16 May 711/2 Ayerst, McKenna & Harrison Limited, New York and Rouses Point, N.Y... Antabuse... For medicinal preparation for the treatment of alcohol. 1959Observer 1 Nov. 20/4 The cure..was done by kindness and re-education not antabuse. 1964R. A. Heinlein Farnham's Freehold iii. 52 Antabuse doesn't stop the craving; it simply makes the patient deathly ill if he drinks. 1971Trade Marks Jrnl. 10 Feb. 223/2 Antabuse... Pharmaceutical preparations and substances. A/S Dumex (Dumex Limited).., Copenhagen, Denmark. 1976Smythies & Corbett Psychiatry ix. 183 In some centers he is given a controlled antabuse reaction, but others consider it potentially too dangerous to use. 1984Listener 22 Nov. 15/1 What Antabuse actually does is to interfere with the body's breakdown of alcohol and in so doing causes a build-up of the chemical acetaldehyde. |