TY - JOUR T1 - Should GPs prescribe vitamin B compound strong tablets to alcoholics? JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 134 LP - 135 DO - 10.3399/bjgp17X689809 VL - 67 IS - 656 AU - Jack Morrison Leach Y1 - 2017/03/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/67/656/134.abstract N2 - Many medicine management committees are advising their GPs not to prescribe vitamin B compound strong tablets to alcoholics as they believe it is not recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). The NICE guidelines for the management of alcohol problems that they quote do not discuss the use of vitamin B supplements other than thiamine (vitamin B1).1,2 This is not surprising because the clinical guideline is advising about the prevention and treatment of Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome (WKS) in which just thiamine and not other B vitamin deficiency is implicated. There are many other diseases that can be caused by other B vitamin deficiency.B vitamins are a group of chemically different water-soluble co-factors, co-enzymes, and precursors that are important for many metabolic processes. A range of B vitamin deficiencies have been reported in chronic excessive and regular alcohol drinkers, and … ER -