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Teaching 'proper' drinking? : clubs and pubs in Indigenous Australia
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ISBN: 176046158X 9781760461584 9781760461577 1760461571 Year: 2017 Publisher: ANU Press

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In Teaching 'Proper' Drinking?, the author brings together three fields of scholarship: socio-historical studies of alcohol, Australian Indigenous policy history and social enterprise studies. The case studies in the book offer the first detailed surveys of efforts to teach responsible drinking practices to Aboriginal people by installing canteens in remote communities, and of the purchase of public hotels by Indigenous groups in attempts both to control sales of alcohol and to create social enterprises by redistributing profits for the community good. Ethnographies of the hotels are examined through the analytical lens of the Swedish 'Gothenburg' system of municipal hotel ownership. The research reveals that the community governance of such social enterprises is not purely a matter of good administration or compliance with the relevant liquor legislation. Their administration is imbued with the additional challenges posed by political contestation, both within and beyond the communities concerned.


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Alcohol and Alcohol-related Diseases
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ISBN: 3031324838 303132482X Year: 2023 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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Alcohol is one of the major risk factors for negative health outcomes worldwide. It accounts for more than 60 alcohol-related diseases, ranging from addiction, through liver cirrhosis, to cancer. Collectively, these conditions account for mortality and morbidity that make alcohol use one of the leading preventable causes of disability adjusted life-years (DALYs) lost globally. In this book, an international faculty covers all aspects of alcohol-related disorders, ranging from addiction/alcohol use disorders (AUD) to alcohol-related diseases of other organs such as liver, heart or cancer. A special focus is to reach out to primary care physicians who are in the front line of this major health problem. The book also provides an update for addiction specialists, as well as specialists in internal medicine, gastroenterology and hepatology. The book is divided into sections that include epidemiology, alcohol use disorders and addiction, alcohol-related liver disease, alcoholic hepatitis, primary care and interdisciplinary approaches and other alcohol-related diseases. Besides current diagnostic measures and treatment strategies, the book deals with the many underlying molecular and genetic mechanisms of alcohol toxicity. Novel insights include prospective data on all-cause mortality and the emerging major role of alcohol-mediated hemolysis and enhanced red blood cell turnover. The book also aims at guiding policy makers to handle the topic of alcohol in our society more responsibly. .


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L'alcool, moi et les autres
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ISBN: 2287988866 Year: 2009 Publisher: Paris : Springer,

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En France, environ 5 millions de personnes présentent un problème avec l'alcool. Cet ouvrage, destiné au grand public, s'attache à mettre en lumière les avancées de la recherche et les données scientifiques les plus récentes dans le domaine de l'alcool tout en proposant une vision simple, accessible et rigoureuse de la place et du rôle de ce produit dans notre société. L'objectif étant de changer le regard que l'on porte sur «l'alcoolique» et l'alcoolisme.


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Processos de alcoolização Indígena no Brasil : perspectivas plurais
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ISBN: 8575415816 8575414267 Year: 2013 Publisher: SciELO Books - Editora FIOCRUZ

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Quais são os critérios para identificar quando o consumo de bebidas alcoólicas se tornou problemático? Os critérios biomédicos que definem a dependência ao álcool como uma patologia se aplicam a todos os contextos culturais? O uso do álcool é uma questão de contornos complexos, em especial quando se consideram os povos indígenas, entre os quais problemas relacionados ao uso de álcool aparecem como importantes problemas de saúde pública, embora a produção acadêmica nacional sobre o assunto ainda seja relativamente escassa. Como o álcool adquire uma variedade de funções em diferentes grupos sociais, a análise não pode se restringir à ingestão da bebida em si: é preciso relacionar o consumo a processos socioculturais e político-econômicos. É o que defendem os autores desta coletânea, que descreve e analisa as características específicas dos diversos modos de uso de álcool em diferentes povos indígenas brasileiros. Os capítulos trazem relatos teóricos, etnográficos, historiográficos e de intervenções culturalmente orientadas. Buscam superar os enfoques limitados aos aspectos patológicos do consumo de álcool: demonstram que os efeitos da bebida – sejam negativos, sejam positivos – não podem ser dissociados de seus aspectos sociais, econômicos e psicológicos. Essa complexidade aponta para a necessária complementaridade entre as perspectivas da biomedicina e as das ciências sociais, além de ratificar a importância do protagonismo indígena no enfrentamento dos problemas relacionados ao uso de bebidas alcoólicas.


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Genetics and epigenetics of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
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ISBN: 9782889195732 Year: 2015 Publisher: Frontiers Media SA

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Women drinking during pregnancy can result in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), which features neurodevelopmental deficit, facial dysmorphology, growth retardation, and learning disability. Research suggests the human brain is precisely shaped through an intrinsic, genetic-cellular expression that is orchestrated further upstream by an epigenetic program. This program can be influenced by environmental inputs such as alcohol. Current research suggests the genetic and epigenetics of FASD are becoming intertwined and inseparable. Now is the time for investigators to combine genetic, genomic and epigenetic alcohol research into an accessible, online platform discussion. Genetic analyses inform gene sets vulnerable to alcohol exposure during early neurulation. Prenatal alcohol exposure alters expression of gene subsets, including genes involved in neural specification, hematopoiesis, methylation, chromatin remodeling, histone variants, eye and heart development. Recently, quantitative map locusing (QTLs) that mediate alcohol-induced phenotype were identified between two mouse strains. Another question is -- besides amount, dose, and stage of alcohol exposure, why only 5% of women drinking have a newborn with FAS? Studies are also ongoing to answer this question by characterizing genome-wide expression, allele-specific expression (ASE), gene polymorphisms (SNPs) and maternal genetic factors that influence alcohol vulnerability. Alcohol exposure during pregnancy, which can lead to FASD, has been used as a model to resolve the epigenetic pathway between environment and phenotype. Epigenetics modifies genetic outputs through alteration of 3D chromatin structure and accessibility of transcriptional machinery. Several laboratories have reported altered epigenetics, including DNA methylation and histone modification, in multiple models of FASD. During development DNA methylation is dynamic, yet orchestrated as methylation progresses in a precise spatiotemporal manner during neurulation and coincides with neural differentiation. Alcohol can directly influence epigenetics through alterations of the methionine pathway and subsequent DNA or histone methylation/acetylation. Alcohol also alters noncoding RNA including miRNA and transposable elements (TEs). Evidence suggests that miRNA expression may mediate ethanol teratology, and TEs may be affected by alcohol through altering DNA methylation at LTR. In this manner epigenetic and genetics of FASD are becoming mechanistically intertwined. Can alcohol-induced epigenomic alterations be passed through generations? Early epidemiological studies revealed infants with FASD-like features in the absence of maternal alcohol, where the fathers were alcoholics. Novel mechanisms for alcohol-induced phenotypes include altered sperm DNA methylation, hypomethylated paternal allele and heritable epimutation. These studies predict heritability of alcohol-induced epigenetic abnormalities and gene functionality across generations.


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Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research.

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Toxicology --- Alcoholism --- Alcoolisme --- Periodicals. --- Périodiques --- Alcoholism. --- Research. --- Alcohol. --- Alcoholvergiftiging. --- Alcoholisme. --- Alcoolisme. --- Alcohol Addiction --- Alcohol Dependence --- Alcohol Abuse --- Alcoholic Intoxication, Chronic --- Abuse, Alcohol --- Addiction, Alcohol --- Chronic Alcoholic Intoxication --- Dependence, Alcohol --- Intoxication, Chronic Alcoholic --- Blood Alcohol Content --- Alcohol Drinking --- Social Problems --- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders --- Periodicals --- Chemistry --- Health Sciences --- Life Sciences --- Clinical Medicine --- General and Others --- Cytology, Cell Biology --- Micro and Molecular Biology --- Addiction to alcohol --- Alcohol abuse --- Alcohol intoxication --- Dipsomania --- Drinking problem --- Drunkenness --- Inebriety --- Intemperance --- Intoxication --- Jellinek's disease --- Liquor problem --- Alcohol Use Disorder --- Alcohol Use Disorders --- Use Disorder, Alcohol --- Use Disorders, Alcohol --- Substance abuse --- Temperance --- Controlled drinking --- Drinking of alcoholic beverages --- Research --- Laboratory Research --- Research Activities --- Research and Development --- Research Priorities --- Activities, Research --- Activity, Research --- Development and Research --- Priorities, Research --- Priority, Research --- Research Activity --- Research Priority --- Research, Laboratory --- Ethics, Research --- farmacologie --- toxicologie --- Ethanol Abuse --- Abuse, Ethanol --- Alcoholism . --- Alcoholism - Periodicals. --- Alcoolisme - Périodiques. --- Intoxication, Alcohol


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Alcohol, Psychiatry and Society : Comparative and Transnational Perspectives, C. 1700-1990s.
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ISBN: 1526159392 1526159414 1526159406 Year: 2022 Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press,

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The medicalisation of alcohol use has become a prominent discourse that guides policy makers and impacts public perceptions of drinking. This book maps the historical and cultural dimensions of the phenomenon, emphasising medical attitudes to alcohol and the changing perception of consumption in psychiatry and mental health.


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Drug and alcohol review.
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ISSN: 14653362 09595236 Year: 1990 Publisher: London : Taylor & Francis

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Alcohol Drinking --- Alcoholism --- Substance-Related Disorders --- prevention & control --- Substance abuse --- Drinking of alcoholic beverages --- Alcohol Drinking. --- Alcoholism. --- Substance-Related Disorders. --- Societies, Medical. --- Drinking of alcoholic beverages. --- Substance abuse. --- Substance Abuse & Addiction. --- prevention & control. --- Abuse of substances --- Addiction, Substance --- Addictive behavior --- Chemical dependence --- Chemical dependency --- Substance addiction --- Substance dependence --- Substance-related disorders --- Substance use disorders --- Alcohol Consumption --- Drinking, Alcohol --- Consumption, Alcohol --- Alcohol consumption --- Alcohol drinking --- Alcohol use --- Alcoholic beverage consumption --- Consumption of alcoholic beverages --- Drinking problem --- Liquor problem --- Social drinking --- Addiction to alcohol --- Alcohol abuse --- Alcohol intoxication --- Dipsomania --- Drunkenness --- Inebriety --- Intemperance --- Intoxication --- Jellinek's disease --- Medical Societies --- Medical Society --- Society, Medical --- Substance Addiction --- Drug Abuse --- Drug Addiction --- Drug Dependence --- Drug Habituation --- Drug Use Disorders --- Organic Mental Disorders, Substance-Induced --- Substance Abuse --- Substance Dependence --- Substance Use Disorders --- Abuse, Drug --- Abuse, Substance --- Abuses, Substance --- Addiction, Drug --- Dependence, Drug --- Dependence, Substance --- Disorder, Drug Use --- Disorder, Substance Use --- Drug Use Disorder --- Habituation, Drug --- Organic Mental Disorders, Substance Induced --- Substance Abuses --- Substance Use Disorder --- Societies, Medical --- Alcohol Addiction --- Alcohol Dependence --- Alcohol Abuse --- Alcoholic Intoxication, Chronic --- Abuse, Alcohol --- Addiction, Alcohol --- Chronic Alcoholic Intoxication --- Dependence, Alcohol --- Intoxication, Chronic Alcoholic --- Prescription Drug Abuse --- Abuse, Prescription Drug --- Drug Abuse, Prescription --- Drug and Narcotic Control --- Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders --- Psychoses, Alcoholic --- Social Problems --- Street Drugs --- Designer Drugs --- Behavior, Addictive --- Codependency (Psychology) --- Alcohol-Related Disorders --- Prescription Drug Misuse --- Alcohol Use Disorder --- Alcohol Use Disorders --- Use Disorder, Alcohol --- Use Disorders, Alcohol --- Blood Alcohol Content --- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders --- Drinking --- Psychology, Pathological --- Alcoholic beverages --- Temperance --- Controlled drinking --- Alcohol Drinking Habits --- Alcohol Drinking Habit --- Drinking Habit, Alcohol --- Drinking Habits, Alcohol --- Habit, Alcohol Drinking --- Habits, Alcohol Drinking --- Illicit Drugs --- Codependency, Psychological --- Alcohol Intake --- Alcohol Intakes --- Intake, Alcohol --- Chemical Dependence --- Substance Use --- Chemical Dependences --- Dependence, Chemical --- Dependences, Chemical --- Substance Uses --- Use, Substance --- Substance Related Disorder --- Disorder, Substance Related --- Disorders, Substance Related --- Related Disorder, Substance --- Related Disorders, Substance --- Intoxication, Alcohol


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The Quest for Aqua Vitae : The History and Chemistry of Alcohol from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
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ISBN: 3319063022 3319063014 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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Ethyl alcohol, or ethanol, is one of the most ubiquitous chemical compounds in the history of the chemical sciences. The generation of alcohol via fermentation is also one of the oldest forms of chemical technology, with the production of fermented beverages such as mead, beer, and wine predating the smelting of metals. By the 12th century, the ability to isolate alcohol from wine had moved this chemical species from a simple component of alcoholic beverages to both a new medicine and a powerful new solvent. Of course, this also began the long tradition of production of liqueurs and strong spirits for consumption. The use of alcohol as a fuel, however, did not occur until significantly later periods. This volume presents a general overview of the early history and chemistry of alcohol production and isolation, as well as a discussion of its early uses in both the chemical arts and medicine.

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