Antabuse
Overdosage & Contraindications
CONTRAINDICATIONS
Patients who are receiving or have recently received metronidazole. paraldehyde. alcohol, or alcohol-containing preparations, e.g. cough syrups, tonics and the like, should not be given disulfiram.
Disulfiram is contraindicated in the presence of severe myocardial disease or coronary occlusion, psychoses, and hypersensitivity to disulfiram or to other thiuram derivatives used in pesticides and rubber vulcanization.
Brand Name: Antabuse
Generic Name: Disulfiram
Generic Name: Disulfiram
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