A well-known medical drug against alcoholism that has been used in narcology for nearly 60 years has been shown to be effective against the coronavirus, according to Izvestia.

A study by researchers at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital found that disulfiram, which is used for the treatment of alcohol dependence, can be used to treat COVID-19, too. In addition, this medicine has reduced the risk of death from the coronavirus.

As researcher Maria Grishina at the Vladimir Potemkin Computer-Aided Drug Design Laboratory had assumed, disulfiram suppresses the production of the enzyme involved in the metabolism of ethanol. And in this case, it can relieve the symptoms of severe COVID-19 by suppressing the protein involved in hyperinflammation.

But the efficacy and safety of this and dozens of other such medical drugs are still being studied, and therefore no final data are available yet.