Author: Marc Galanter
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: alcoholism, treatment, research, volume, recent, developments
Number of Pages: 438
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: $225.00
ISBN-10: 0306472589
ISBN-13: 9780306472589

This sixteenth volume in Recent Developments in Alcoholism focuses on treatment research. Sections on methodology, psychosocial treatments, pharmacotherapy, other treatment topics, and research priorities are included. In addition to series editor Marc Galanter, section editors include John P. Allen, Richard Fuller, Raye Litten, and Michael Eckardt.

Author: Marc Galanter
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: alcoholism, cltural, recent, developments, cross, economic, medical, neuropsychiatric, consequences
Number of Pages: 499
Published: 1998-09-15
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 0306457474
ISBN-13: 9780306457470

Presenting authoritative reviews by leading researchers and clinicians in the field of alcoholism, this book studies the neuropsychiatric, medical, economical and cross-cultural aspects of alcoholism.

Authors:D. Lagressa, G.M. Boyd, V.B. Faden, E. Witt, Marc Gala
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: alcoholism, developments, recent, neurobiology, treatment, epidemiology, prevention, adolescents, alcohol, problems, adults
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 2005-01-27
List price: $209.00
ISBN-10: 0306486253
ISBN-13: 9780306486258

Alcohol is the substance most frequently used by youth. According to 2002 data from Monitoring the Future (MTF), a nationally representative survey of youth, 78% of 12th graders, 67% of 10th graders and 47% of 8th graders reported consuming alcohol in their lives. Youth who drink may experience a range of adverse short and long-term consequences including academic problems such as lower grades or school failure, social problems, physical problems such as hangovers or medical illnesses, unwanted or unintended sexual activity, physical and sexual assault, memory problems, increased risk for suic

Author: Maria Gifford
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: disease, biographies, alcoholism
Number of Pages: 157
Published: 2009-10-22
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0313359083
ISBN-13: 9780313359088

Alcoholism tells the story of a disease familiar to many yet not well understood. It is the first �biography� of alcohol abuse that gauges its devastating effects on the body, the family, the economy, and the community.Alcoholism provides the latest understanding of the disease as a behavioral dysfunction and a biological condition. Coverage includes the origins of alcohol and the discovery of alcoholism as a medical disease; the biology of alcoholism and its effects on the body; and current diagnostic and treatment methods for alcoholism. In addition, the book explores the effects on society

Author: Arthur Herscovitch
Publisher: Gardner Pr
Keywords: gambling, pathological, alcoholism
Published: 1997-06
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0898762235
ISBN-13: 9780898762235

Author: George E. Vaillant
Publisher: Harvard University Pre
Keywords: revisited, alcoholism, history, natural
Number of Pages: 462
Published: 1995-05-25
List price: $28.50
ISBN-10: 0674603788
ISBN-13: 9780674603783

When The Natural History of Alcoholism was first published in 1983, it was acclaimed in the press as the single most important contribution to the literature on alcoholism since the first edition of Alcoholic Anonymous’s Big Book. George Vaillant took on the crucial questions of whether alcoholism is a symptom or a disease, whether it is progressive, whether alcoholics differ from others before the onset of their alcoholism, and whether alcoholics can safely drink. Based on an evaluation of more than 600 individuals followed for over forty years, Vaillant’s monumental study offere

Author: Herbert Fingarette
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: disease, alcoholism, myth, drinking, heavy
Number of Pages: 166
Published: 1989-06-21
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0520067541
ISBN-13: 9780520067547

Heavy Drinking informs the general public for the first time how recent research has discredited almost every widely held belief about alcoholism, including the very concept of alcoholism as a single disease with a unique cause. Herbert Fingarette presents constructive approaches to heavy drinking, including new methods of helping heavy drinkers and social policies for preventing heavy drinking and the harms associated with it.