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The British Journal of Psychiatry 150: 845-849 (1987)
© 1987 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Ethanol retards desensitisation of simple phobias in non-alcoholics

OG Cameron, MR Liepman, GC Curtis and BA Thyer
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109.

Twenty non-alcoholic patients with DSM-III defined simple phobias for small animals received behavioural approach tests and exposure therapy while under the influence of a moderately intoxicating dose of ethanol or after placebo administration. Ethanol did not demonstrate any acute anti-anxiety effect, but retarded the rate of behavioural in vivo desensitisation, without changing the final treatment outcome. State- dependent effects of ethanol on anxiety were not demonstrated. This study supports prior research indicating no anti-anxiety or 'tension- reducing' effects of ethanol for simple phobias.


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