Features of psychopharmacotherapeutic correction of alcohol dependence in the elderly

: The article is devoted to the actual in modern medicine problem as the study of the prevalence of alcohol dependence and its psyhofarmacological correction in the elderly. It is shown that elderly and old age as a result of reduction of the reserve capacity of the organism for clinical pathology becomes addictive specific psychopathological features that affect the course of disease and maintenance of preventive treatment. On the basis of empirical evidence the authors prove that at the border severity of alcohol withdrawal syndrome the drug "Cytoflavin" has a fairly pronounced psyhofarmacological activity for older people with alcohol dependence.