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From the President of the Research Society on Alcoholism This annual book series is a valuable resource for the alcoholism field, because it provides critical and timely reviews of selected areas that have interest to both practitioners and researchers. It tries to achieve a balance between psy chosocial and biomedical topics and between research and patient-care activ ities. Such a mix is offered in Volume 6. The Research Society on Alcoholism whose membership embraces researchers from all disciplines that study the etiology, treatment, and prevention of alcoholism and alcohol-related disa bilities-regards the support and sponsorship of this book series as one of its major missions. Ting-Kai Li, M. D. President, Research Society on Alcoholism From the President of the American Medical Society on Alcoholism and Other Drug Dependencies The broadening scope of clinical and scientific interest in alcohol dependence is reflected in this sixth volume of Recent Developments in Alcoholism. It offers valuable reviews on important current issues in the field, namely, the inter twining of nature and nurture, a continuing search for predictors and indi cators of the disease, and the social impact of alcoholism on the job and in special populations. This material should pique the interest of clinicians from all disciplines. Medical, social, and political planners also need to turn to the expanding body of knowledge in the field of chemical dependence reflected here. The volume is therefore of value to a contemporary readership and to those who will turn to it in future years.
List of contents
I. Substance Abuse and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.- Overview.- 1 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Substance Abuse: Clinical Issues.- 2 The Interrelationship of Substance Abuse and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Epidemiological and Clinical Complications.- 3 Biological Mechanisms in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Relevance for Substance Abuse.- 4 Coping and Defending Styles among Vietnam Combat Veterans Seeking Treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Substance Use Disorder.- 5 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in World War II and Korean Combat Veterans with Alcohol Dependency.- II. Alcohol and Its Management in the Workplace.- Overview.- 6 The Epidemiology of Alcohol Abuse among Employed Men and Women.- 7 Growth and Transformation in Workplace Alcoholism Programming.- 8 Constructive Confrontation and Other Referral Processes.- 9 Identification of Alcoholics in the Workplace.- 10 Monitoring the Process of Recovery: Using Electronic Pagers as a Treatment Intervention.- 11 Posttreatment Follow-up, Aftercare, and Worksite Reentry of the Recovering Alcoholic Employee.- 12 New Occupations and the Division of Labor in Workplace Alcoholism Programs.- III. Consequences of Alcohol Abuse Unique to Women.- Overview.- 13 Effects of Moderate Consumption of Alcoholic Beverages on Endocrine Function in Postmenopausal Women: Bases for Hypotheses.- 14 Effects of Alcohol Abuse on Reproductive Function in Women.- 15 Maternal Ethanol Use and Selective Fetal Malnutrition.- 16 Ethanol Metabolism and Hepatotoxicity: Does Sex Make a Difference?.- IV. Markers for Risk of Alcoholism and Alcohol Intake.- Overview.- 17 Physiological and Psychological Factors as Predictors of Alcoholism Risk.- 18 Brain Evoked Potentials as Predictors of Risk.- 19 Molecular Markers for Linkage of Genetic LociContributing to Alcoholism.- 20 Blood Markers of Alcoholic Liver Disease.- 21 Discriminant Function Analysis of Clinical Laboratory Data: Use in Alcohol Research.- 22 Acetaldehyde and Its Condensation Products as Markers in Alcoholism.
Summary
Evidence-based medicine is recognizing a spiritual component in healing especially when it comes to alcohol addiction. This book brings together more than thirty contributors and reflects this change by focusing on the 12-step model of recovery.
