Alcohol as a drug
Figure 2.1: Chemical structure of some alcohols. Pharmacology Alcohol is a colourless liquid at room temperature. Relative to water, it has a lower density, freezing point, and boiling point (Table…
Definitions of drinking problems
Figure 1.1: Drinking within the population. The areas are not accurate representations of the relative proportions of those exhibiting differing drinking behaviours because this varies among populations. Hazardous drinking Hazardous…
Social complications of drinking problems
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:mml=”http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:epub=”http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops”> Chapter 4 Social complications of drinking problems When problem drinkers are standing before them, clinicians can directly observe the problems that these patients might “carry with…
Causes of drinking problems
Neurological vulnerability Table 3.1 divides the factors that influence drinking problems into three levels, namely the societal, the family/community, and individual. This framework is an oversimplification in a number of…
Introduction, settings, and roles
The outermost layer of Figure 8.1 comprises informal influences on problem drinkers: the work colleague who advises that a career may be damaged if drinking is not stopped, the husband…
Case-finding and intervention outside of specialty settings
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:mml=”http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:epub=”http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops”> Chapter 9 Case-finding and intervention outside of specialty settings Specialty alcohol clinical settings are an important focus of this book and are obviously an appropriate location…
Physical complications of excessive drinking
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:mml=”http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:epub=”http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops”> Chapter 5 Physical complications of excessive drinking The physical element is an important part of a comprehensive approach to drinking problems. Helping services should be organized…
Drinking problems and psychiatric disorders
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:mml=”http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:epub=”http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops”> Chapter 6 Drinking problems and psychiatric disorders Anyone working in the field of drinking problems must cultivate an awareness of the range of psychiatric disorders that…
Alcohol and other drug problems
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:mml=”http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:epub=”http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops”> Chapter 7 Alcohol and other drug problems Alcohol is a drug (see Chapter 2) that is often used with other drugs, ranging from simple combinations, such…
Specialist treatment of drinking problems
Molecular Structure of Disulfiram In 1952, the Danish team patented disulfiram as “antabus,” which was Anglicized to “Antabuse” in the coming years. Americans learnt of it from an article on…
