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Medical and Social Aspects of Alcohol Abuse

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  • © 1983

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Editors:
  1. Boris Tabakoff

    1. Alcohol Drug Abuse Research and Training Program, University of Illinois at the Medical Center and Westside Veterans Administration Medical Center, Chicago, USA

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  2. Patricia B. Sutker

    1. Veterans Administration Medical Center, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, USA

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  3. Carrie L. Randall

    1. Veterans Administration Medical Center, Charleston, USA

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Alcohol Use and Abuse

    • Glenn R. Caddy
    Pages 1-30

  3. The Genetics of Alcoholism

    • Marc A. Schuckit
    Pages 31-46

  4. The Absorption, Distribution, and Metabolism of Ethanol and Its Effects on Nutrition and Hepatic Function

    • Ting-Kai Li
    Pages 47-77

  5. Effects of Ethanol upon Organ Systems Other than the Central Nervous System

    • David H. Van Thiel
    Pages 79-132

  6. Ethanol and the Central Nervous System

    • Walter A. Hunt
    Pages 133-163

  7. Neurologic Diseases Associated with Chronic Alcohol Abuse

    • Gerhard Freund
    Pages 165-186

  8. Biology of Tolerance and Dependence

    • Boris Tabakoff, Jeffrey D. Rothstein
    Pages 187-220

  9. Alcohol Consumption and Prenatal Development

    • Ernest L. Abel, Carrie L. Randall, Edward P. Riley
    Pages 221-245

  10. Interaction of Ethanol with Other Drugs

    • Richard A. Deitrich, Dennis R. Petersen
    Pages 247-272

  11. Psychological Correlates and Explanations of Alcohol Use and Abuse

    • R. Lorraine Collins, G. Alan Marlatt
    Pages 273-308

  12. Alcoholism Treatment Approaches

    • Barbara S. McCrady, Kenneth J. Sher
    Pages 309-373

  13. Prevention of Alcohol Abuse

    • Peter M. Miller, Ted D. Nirenberg, Gary McClure
    Pages 375-397

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 399-403
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About this book

Alcohol use affects, either directly or indirectly, nearly all facets of Western civi­ lization. Eastern cultures are also not exempt from the influence of alcohol, and the present decade has been a time of increased alcohol use in all parts of the world. The problems of alcohol abuse and alcoholism are of concern to a variety of professionals in the biomedical and psychosocial health sciences, and-although the alcohol research literature contains much information on the relationships between alcohol ingestion and physiological, neurochemical, pharmacologic, genetic, environmental, and psychological effects in humans and in subhuman spe­ cies-there is at the present time no advanced textbook that integrates the avail­ able information for use by both students and professionals. The writing of Medical and Social Aspects of Alcohol Abuse constitutes an attempt to create a scholarly reference and resource for students, researchers, prac­ ticing clinicians, and paraprofessionals who wish to understand the complex inter­ play of factors related to acute and chronic alcohol intoxication, the effects of alco­ hol on body functions, and treatment approaches to alcohol abusers and alcoholics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Alcohol Drug Abuse Research and Training Program, University of Illinois at the Medical Center and Westside Veterans Administration Medical Center, Chicago, USA

    Boris Tabakoff

  • Veterans Administration Medical Center, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, USA

    Patricia B. Sutker

  • Veterans Administration Medical Center, Charleston, USA

    Carrie L. Randall

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Medical and Social Aspects of Alcohol Abuse

  • Editors: Boris Tabakoff, Patricia B. Sutker, Carrie L. Randall

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4436-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1983

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-4438-4Published: 14 March 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-4436-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 404

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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