Table of Contents:
  • Prevalence and pattern of use
  • Genetics of alcoholism
  • Neurological effects of alcohol
  • Medical complications of alcoholism
  • Tolerance and dependence
  • Clinical diagnosis of alcoholism
  • Laboratory diagnosis of alcoholism and drug addiction
  • Diagnosis of psychiatric syndromes in alcoholism and drug addiction
  • Treatment of alcoholism
  • Outpatient and inpatient treatment of alcoholism
  • Treatment of the dual-diagnosed alcoholic patient
  • Benzodiazepine use and addiction among alcoholics
  • Other drug use among alcoholics
  • Suicide in alcoholism and drug abuse
  • Fetal effects of maternal alcohol use
  • Alcohol and drug abuse and dependence in geriatric populations
  • Prevention.