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From the President of the Research Society on Alcoholism The field of alcohol research has been slowly but continuously evolving, taking into its domain an ever-increasing array of scientific disciplines. This senes is designed to fill the need for ,a review publication that covers the broad range of research into alcohol actions and alcoholism. Research in alcohol concerns social, epidemiological, and legal concerns in addition to biomedical and behavioral topics to greater degree than research with many other drugs. A publication devoted to alcohol research should serve the broadest existing research community, but perhaps more important, it should also provide a means to recruit new investigators with fresh approaches to the field. We can and must demonstrate that legitimate, high-quality research is being done, but we must also highlight the opportunity for new workers to make a real impact on the problem. The Research Society on Alcoholism seeks to provide such a service not only through this publication but also through other ac tivities. Richard A. Deitrich, Ph.D.
List of contents
I. Experimental Social and Learning Models of Drinking.- Overview.- 1 A Conditioning Model of Alcohol Tolerance.- 2 Social Models of Drinking Behavior in Animals: The Importance of Individual Differences.- 3 Social Correlates of Drinking in Contrived Situations.- 4 Alcohol-Ingestive Habits: The Role of Flavor and Effect.- 5 Commentary on the Utility of Experimental Social and Learning Models of Alcoholism.- II. Alcohol and the Liver: Recent Developments in Preclinical and Clinical Research.- Overview.- 6 Alcohol-Induced Liver Injury: The Role of Oxygen.- 7 Hypermetabolic State and Hypoxic Liver Damage.- 8 Commentary on the Hypermetabolic State and the Role of Oxygen in Alcohol-Induced Liver Injury.- 9 Alcohol-Induced Mitochondrial Changes in the Liver.- 10 Effect of Ethanol on Hepatic Secretory Proteins.- 11 Use of Colchicine and Steroids in the Treatment of Alcoholic Liver Disease.- III. Aging and Alcoholism.- Overview.- 12 Neurobiological Relationships between Aging and Alcohol Abuse.- 13 Alcohol Consumption and Premature Aging: A Critical Review.- 14 Aging and Alcohol Problems: Opportunities for Socioepidemiological Research.- 15 Life Stressors and Problem Drinking among Older Adults.- 16 Cross-Cultural Aspects of Alcoholism in the Elderly.- IV. Contributions from Anthropology to the Study of Alcoholism.- Overview.- 17 Ethnohistory and Alcohol Studies.- 18 Social-Network Considerations in the Alcohol Field.- 19 Alcohol Use in the Perspective of Cultural Ecology.- Selected Contexts of Anthropological Studies in the Alcohol Field: Introduction.- 20 Family Research and Alcoholism.- 21 Alcoholism-Treatment-Center-Based Projects.- 22 Cross-Cultural Studies of Alcoholism.
