Table of Contents

Medical Consequences of Alcoholism.- Overview.- Metabolism of Ethanol and Some Associated Adverse Effects on the Liver and the Stomach.- Alcohol and the Pancreas.- Alcohol and Cancer.- Alcohol and Lipids.- Cardiovascular Effects of Alcohol.- Neuropsychiatric Consequences of Alcoholism.- Overview.- Mechanisms of Alcohol Craving and Their Clinical Implications.- A Review of the Effects of Moderate Alcohol Intake on Psychiatric and Sleep Disorders.- Executive Cognitive Functioning in Alcohol Use Disorders.- Brain Imaging Functional Consequences of Ethanol in the Central Nervous System.- Complications of Severe Mental Illness Related to Alcohol and Drug Use Disorders.- Economic Consequences of Alcoholism.- Overview.- Economic Costs of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.- The Effects of Price on the Consequences of Alcohol Use and Abuse.- Drinking, Problem Drinking, and Productivity.- The Cost Offsets of Alcoholism Treatment.- An International Perspective of the Biobehavioral Consequences of Alcoholism.- Overview Alfonso Paredes.- Experience with the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) in Mexico.- Problems Associated with Hazardous and Harmful Alcohol Consumption in Mexico.- Sanctification of “the Accursed” Drinking Habits of the French Existentialists in the 1940s (A Case Study).- Cocaine Metabolism in Humans after Use of Alcohol Clinical and Research Implications.- Interrelationship between Alcohol Intake, Hepatitis C, Liver Cirrhosis, and Hepatocellular Carcinoma.

Reviews

`I can enthusiastically recommend this book as an essential text in the libraries of academicians, teachers, clinicians, researchers, and policy makers. The quality and scope of the work are groundbreaking.'
American Journal of Psychiatry
`Another fine effort in the series which always presents authoritative reviews by leading researchers and clinicians in the field of alcoholism.'
Journal of Studies on Alcohol
`The contributors to this volume, world authorities in their subject, review the state of biomedical science and clinical practices in alcoholism. The research tools described are spectacular, and progress seems to remarkable......a tightly written and extensively annotated text. This amount of authoritative, cutting-edge information is available in no other single source.'
READINGS (March 1999)