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The one-of-a-kind exploration of effective alcohol prevention and treatment for Latinos-now and for the future!By the year 2020, the Latino population in the United States will increase to 60 million, making up 18 percent of all residents. Latinos and Alcohol Use/Abuse Revisited: Advances and Challenges for Prevention and Treatment Programs brings into sharp focus how present and future demographic shifts in Latino population are being felt in alcohol programs across the United States. Case studies and in-depth research clearly illustrate the practical steps various culturally comp
Hispanic Americans --- Alcoholism --- Alcohol use. --- Prevention. --- Treatment
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What difference does culture make?Coping with Alcohol and Drug Problems: The Experiences of Family Members in Three Contrasting Cultures aims to deepen and extend understanding of the experiences of family members trying to cope with the excessive drinking or drug taking of a relative. Comprehensive and thoroughly up to date, this book draws on the results of the cross-cultural study of alcohol and drug problems in the family, and places these results within the broader context of the international literature on the subject. By investigating the simil
Alcoholism --- Alcoholics --- Drug abuse --- Drug addicts --- Druggies --- Junkies (Drug addicts) --- Narcotic addicts --- Addicts --- Drug abusers --- Drug use --- Substance abuse --- Drinkers, Problem --- Drunkards --- Drunks --- Inebriates --- Problem drinkers --- Addiction to alcohol --- Alcohol abuse --- Alcohol intoxication --- Dipsomania --- Drinking problem --- Drunkenness --- Inebriety --- Intemperance --- Intoxication --- Jellinek's disease --- Liquor problem --- Temperance --- Controlled drinking --- Drinking of alcoholic beverages --- Family relationships --- Patients --- Intoxication, Alcohol
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This report reviews the outcomes of a project to better understand as well as develop a methodology to study the factors associated with sexual risk behaviour among alcohol users in diverse cultural settings. The project focused on eight countries from four continents (Belarus, India, Mexico, Kenya, Romania, the Russian Federation, South Africa and Zambia).
Alcohol use --- Sexual behavior --- Alcohol and sex --- Drinking of alcoholic beverages --- HIV infections --- Sexual behavior surveys. --- HIV (Viruses) infections --- HTLV-III infections --- HTLV-III-LAV infections --- Human T-lymphotropic virus III infections --- Lentivirus infections --- Sexually transmitted diseases --- Alcohol consumption --- Alcohol drinking --- Alcoholic beverage consumption --- Consumption of alcoholic beverages --- Drinking problem --- Liquor problem --- Social drinking --- Alcoholic beverages --- Alcoholism --- Temperance --- Sex and alcohol --- Sex --- Sex behavior surveys --- Sex surveys --- Social surveys --- Risk factors
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This book describes how the analysis of the trace gases in exhaled breath can be used for non-invasive clinical diagnosis of disease and for monitoring the effectiveness of therapy. This approach offers an important addition to the diagnostic techniques available to medicine, having the advantage that on-line breath analysis can provide information to the clinician immediately and thus facilitate rapid diagnosis and treatment. The book is a compilation of contributions to a conference held in Dornbirn, Austria, 23-26 September 2004 on various aspects of this new topic. Written by the foremost
Diagnosis --- Breath tests --- Breath alcohol tests --- Breath screening tests --- Breath testing --- Breathalyzer tests --- Tests, Breath --- Blood alcohol --- Roadside sobriety tests --- Diseases --- Examinations, Medical (Diagnosis) --- Medical diagnosis --- Medical examinations (Diagnosis) --- Medical tests (Diagnosis) --- Clinical medicine --- Prognosis --- Symptoms --- Analysis --- Testing --- Biochemical markers --- Carbon monoxide --- Nitric oxide --- Carbonic oxide --- Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous --- Biologic markers --- Biological markers --- Biomarkers --- Markers, Biochemical --- Biochemistry --- Indicators (Biology) --- Pathophysiology
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Alcohol continues to be the substance of choice for today’s youth, leading to serious physical, psychological, and social consequences. Alcohol Problems in Adolescents and Young Adults ably addresses this growing trend. The latest entry in the Recent Developments in Alcoholism series, it comprehensively presents a wide-ranging clinical picture of teen drinking - epidemiology, neurobiology, behavioral phenomena, diagnostic and assessment issues, prevention and treatment data - in a developmental context. Fifty expert contributors display the scientific rigor, practical wisdom, and nuanced analysis that readers have come to expect from previous volumes. Among the subjects studied in depth: - Initiation of alcohol use/abuse - Risk and protective factors for alcohol dependence - High-risk adolescent populations - Drinking habits of college students - Long-range consequences of teenage drinking - Family-, school-, and community-based prevention programs - Treatment of comorbid substance and psychiatric disorders Clinicians, researchers, and policy makers will find this a bedrock source of evidence-based knowledge, whether one’s goal is choosing an age-appropriate assessment tool for eighth graders, preventing drinking among high school students, or understanding the alcohol-friendliness of campus culture. Here is a critical resource for all professionals dedicated to helping youngsters grow up sober.
Alcoholism. --- Youth --- Alcohol use. --- Alcohol and youth --- Addiction to alcohol --- Alcohol abuse --- Alcohol intoxication --- Dipsomania --- Drinking problem --- Drunkenness --- Inebriety --- Intemperance --- Intoxication --- Jellinek's disease --- Liquor problem --- Substance abuse --- Temperance --- Controlled drinking --- Drinking of alcoholic beverages --- Philosophy (General). --- Psychology, clinical. --- Psychology, general. --- Health Psychology. --- Clinical Psychology. --- Public Health. --- Psychology. --- Health psychology. --- Clinical psychology. --- Public health. --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Social hygiene --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Psychiatry --- Psychology, Applied --- Psychological tests --- Health psychology --- Health psychology, Clinical --- Psychology, Clinical health --- Psychology, Health --- Salutogenesis --- Clinical psychology --- Medicine and psychology --- Behavioral sciences --- Mental philosophy --- Mind --- Science, Mental --- Human biology --- Philosophy --- Soul --- Mental health
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Alcoholism is a pathological behavioural syndrome, characterised by comp- sive alcohol use, craving and relapses, even recurring after many years of abstinence. It is suggested that chronic alcohol abuse leads to persistent changes within several neurochemical pathways in the brain and furthermore that an imprinted drug and addiction memory may scarcely be extinguished. Hence, the question arises as to whether there ought to be a reasonable hope that pharmacological drugs will be developed that interfere with an addiction memory, and as a result, finally lead to a cure? In this book, leading preclinical and clinical experts in the field of alcohol relapse prevention strive to furnish an answer to this question. None of the researchers or clinicians believes in a magic bullet that will be of help to all alcoholic patients in overcoming this disease. However, there is now convi- ing evidence demonstrating that specific subpopulations of alcoholic patients experience satisfactory benefit from currently available treatments. Today we have two medications for relapse prevention on the market – acamprosate and naltrexone. Although, currently, only a minority of alcoholic patients benefit from these medications, the approval of these compounds may be considered a hallmark in the field of psychopharmacology, even comparable to the era when the first antidepressant compounds were introduced. In recent years we have been witnessing an enormous growth in the science and knowledge regarding the field of relapse prevention.
Alcoholism --- Drugs. --- Relapse --- Chemotherapy. --- Medicaments --- Medications --- Medicine (Drugs) --- Medicines (Drugs) --- Pharmaceuticals --- Prescription drugs --- Bioactive compounds --- Medical supplies --- Pharmacopoeias --- Chemotherapy --- Materia medica --- Pharmacology --- Pharmacy --- Addiction to alcohol --- Alcohol abuse --- Alcohol intoxication --- Dipsomania --- Drinking problem --- Drunkenness --- Inebriety --- Intemperance --- Intoxication --- Jellinek's disease --- Liquor problem --- Substance abuse --- Temperance --- Controlled drinking --- Drinking of alcoholic beverages --- Toxicology. --- Neurosciences. --- Psychiatry. --- Pharmacology/Toxicology. --- Medicine and psychology --- Mental health --- Psychology, Pathological --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Neuroscience --- Medical sciences --- Nervous system --- Chemicals --- Medicine --- Poisoning --- Poisons --- Toxicology --- Pharmacology. --- Drug effects --- Medical pharmacology --- Drugs --- Physiological effect
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Social drinking is an accepted aspect of working life in Japan, and women are left to manage their drunken husbands when the men return home, restoring them to sobriety for the next day of work. In attempting to cope with their husbands' alcoholism, the women face a profound cultural dilemma: when does the nurturing behavior expected of a good wife and mother become part of a pattern of behavior that is actually destructive? How does the celebration of nurturance and dependency mask the exploitative aspects not just of family life but also of public life in Japan? The Too-Good Wife follows the experiences of a group of middle-class women in Tokyo who participated in a weekly support meeting for families of substance abusers at a public mental-health clinic. Amy Borovoy deftly analyzes the dilemmas of being female in modern Japan and the grace with which women struggle within a system that supports wives and mothers but thwarts their attempts to find fulfillment outside the family. The central concerns of the book reach beyond the problem of alcoholism to examine the women's own processes of self-reflection and criticism and the deeper fissures and asymmetries that undergird Japanese productivity and social order.
Wives --- Sex role --- Social work with women --- Codependency --- Parents of drug addicts --- Alcoholics' spouses --- Alcoholics --- Spouses --- Women --- Housewives --- Married women --- Gender role --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Co-alcoholism --- Co-dependence (Psychology) --- Co-dependency --- Codependence --- Codependent behavior --- Psychology, Pathological --- Parents of narcotic addicts --- Drug addicts --- Alcoholics' wives --- Alcoholism --- Drinkers, Problem --- Drunkards --- Drunks --- Inebriates --- Problem drinkers --- Addicts --- Family relationships --- Patients --- Family relationships. --- Gender roles --- Gendered role --- Gendered roles --- Role, Gender --- Role, Gendered --- Role, Sex --- Roles, Gender --- Roles, Gendered --- Roles, Sex --- Sex roles --- alcohol. --- alcoholics. --- alcoholism. --- codependency. --- codependent relationships. --- cultural issues. --- destructive behavior. --- drunkenness. --- enabling. --- family life. --- family relationships. --- gender issues. --- gender norms. --- japan. --- japanese culture. --- japanese women. --- marriage. --- men and women. --- mental health issues. --- middle class. --- nurturance. --- politics of marriage. --- postwar japan. --- public life. --- sobriety. --- social drinking. --- social order. --- substance abuse. --- tokyo. --- wives and mothers. --- wives. --- womens roles.
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