Interesting note about antabuse, it came up in a LRG meeting about why it's not prescribed much anymore, and here's what the LCSW had to say: Antabuse was designed to be used as 'aversion therapy'. The idea was that you take Antabuse, and continue to drink normally . The Antabuse would make you sick each time you drank, and gradually the drinking/pleasure association in your brain would get disrupted, and you'd develope an aversion to alcohol, like the rat who gets a shock when he presses the wrong button in a lab experiment. A silly idea it seems to me and I'm not surprised it's not prescribed much anymore.