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Latinos and alcohol use/abuse revisited
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ISBN: 020305136X 128388660X 113643920X 9781136439209 9780203051368 0789029251 9780789029256 078902926X 9780789029263 9781136439278 1136439277 9781136439346 113643934X Year: 2005 Publisher: New York Haworth Press

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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

Coping with alcohol and drug problems : the experiences of family members in three contrasting cultures
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ISBN: 0203759605 1283967952 1134702663 9781134702664 9780203759608 9780203759608 0415371465 9780415371469 9781134702800 1134702809 9781134702732 1134702736 9780415647038 0415647037 Year: 2005 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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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

Alcohol use and sexual risk behaviour : a cross-cultural study in eight countries
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ISBN: 9241562897 9786610268689 1423744918 1280268689 9240680063 Year: 2005 Publisher: Geneva World Health Organization

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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).

Breath analysis for clinical diagnosis and therapeutic monitoring
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ISBN: 1281898082 9786611898083 9812701958 9789812701954 9781281898081 9789812562845 9812562842 9812562842 Year: 2005 Publisher: New Jersey World Scientific

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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

Alcohol Problems in Adolescents and Young Adults : Epidemiology. Neurobiology. Prevention. and Treatment
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ISBN: 1280263032 9786610263035 0306486261 0306486253 0387292152 Year: 2005 Volume: vol. 17 Publisher: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer,

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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.


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Drugs for Relapse Prevention of Alcoholism
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ISBN: 1280459395 9786610459391 3764373059 Year: 2005 Publisher: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser,

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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.

The too-good wife : alcohol, codependency, and the politics of nurturance in postwar Japan
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ISBN: 9786612358098 1423731468 128235809X 0520938682 159875808X 9780520938687 9781423731467 9781598758085 0520244516 9780520244511 0520244524 9780520244528 9781282358096 6612358092 Year: 2005 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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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.

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