Title | Alcoholism [electronic resource] : A Guide for the Primary Care Physician / edited by Henrietta N. Barnes, Mark D. Aronson, Thomas L. Delbanco |
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Imprint | New York, NY : Springer New York, 1987 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4786-9 |
Descript | XXI, 231 p. online resource |
I: General Concepts -- 1 The Epidemiology of Alcohol Abuse and the Response of Physicians -- 2 Definition of Alcoholism -- 3 The Etiology and Natural History of Alcoholism -- II: The Clinical Pharmacology of Alcohol -- 4 The Clinical Pharmacology of Alcohol -- III: Primary Care of the Alcoholic Patient -- 5 Early Diagnosis and Screening -- 6 Presenting the Diagnosis: Working with Denial -- 7 Negotiating Treatment and Monitoring Recovery -- 8 The Use of Disulfiram -- 9 Outpatient Treatment of Withdrawal -- 10 Management of the Alcoholic Inpatient -- IV: Resources in the Community and Workplace -- 11 Alcoholics Anonymous -- 12 Employee-Assistance Programs and the Primary Care Practitioner -- V: Pathophysiology and Medical Complications -- 13 The Nervous System -- 14 The Liver -- 15 The Gastrointestinal Tract and Pancreas -- 16 Nutritional Status, Cardiovascular, Hematologic, Reproductive, and Musculoskeletal Systems -- 17 Metabolic and Renal Effects of Alcohol -- 18 Alcoholism and Cancer -- VI: Alcohol and Special Populations -- 19 Alcoholism and the Family -- 20 The Elderly -- 21 Women and Alcohol Abuse -- 22 The Adolescent Drinker -- 23 The Impaired Physician -- 24 The Patient with Mixed-Substance Abuse -- VII: Ethical and Legal Issues -- 25 Ethical and Legal Issues in the Treatment of Alcoholism: Drunk Driving -- Annotated References