Alcohol

Preface Acknowledgements Contributors I. Framing the issues 1: David J. Hanson: Historical evolution of alcohol consumption in society 2: Jürgen Rehm and Kevin Shield: Key studies of alcohol and disease 3: James C. Harris: Cultural aspects: Representations of alcohol use in visual art 4: Anya Taylor: Cultural aspects: Illustrations of alcohol use in literature 5: Judy Cornes: Cultural aspects: Alcohol use in film 6: Robin Room: Sociocultural aspects of alcohol consumption II. Alcohol: chemistry and biology 7: Laurence I. Peterson: Chemistry of alcoholic beverages 8: Philip J. Brooks and Samir Zakhari: Alcohol metabolism and genetic control 9: David Goldman: Implications of the genetics of alcoholism and addictions for public policy 10: Wolfgang H. Sommer: Pathophysiology of alcohol addiction 11: Wade Berrettini and Karl E. Rickels: Opioid pharmacogenetics of alcohol addiction III. Patterns of consumption 12: Gerhard Gmel, Kevin Shield, and Jürgen Rehm: Tools for estimating alcohol consumption 13: Gerhard Gmel, Florian Labhart, Kevin Shield, Marg Rylett, Dirk Lachenmeier, and Jürgen Rehm: A global overview of alcohol consumption patterns 14: David Zaridze: Impact of extreme drinking on mortality 15: Dirk W. Lachenmeier, Gerhard Gmel, and Jürgen Rehm: Unrecorded alcohol consumption IV. Alcohol: gender and age-related issues 16: Ralph W. Hingson and Aaron M. White: Adolescent and teenage drinking 17: Richard W. Wilsnack and Sharon C. Wilsnack: Gender and alcohol: consumption and consequences 18: Jennifer G. Plebani, David W. Oslin, and Adam B. Lipson: Alcohol use in the elderly V. Alcohol, injury, and violence 19: Scott Macdonald, Alissa Greer, Jeff Brubacher, Cheryl Cherpitel, Tim Stockwell, and Corneilia Zeisser: Alcohol consumption and injury 20: James C. Fell and Robert B. Voas: Alcohol and road traffic injury 21: Alex E. Crosby, Victoria Espitia-Hardeman, LaVonne Ortega, and Briana Lozano: Alcohol and suicide 22: Megan R. Gerber: Alcohol and intimate partner violence 23: Stephen K. Talpins, Robyn Robertson, Erin Holmes, and Matthew Dunagan: Violence and crime VI. Alcohol and cancer 24: CJ Peter Eriksson: Alcohol and carcinogenesis: mechanisms and biomarkers 25: Mia Hashibe, Binh Y. Goldstein, Lin Cai, and Zuo-Feng Zhang: Upper aerodigestive tumours: mouth, pharynx, larynx, and oesophagus 26: David Zaridze: Gastrointestinal tumours 27: Patrick Maisonneuve: Liver and pancreatic tumours 28: Peter Boyle: Alcohol consumption and breast cancer risk 29: Claudio Pelucchi and Carlotta Galeone: Bladder and genitourinary tumours VII. Alcohol and non-malignant disease 30: William H. Frishman: Cardiac disease 31: Kenneth J. Mukamal: Vascular disease 32: Julia B. Greer and Dhiraj Yadav: Benign diseases of the gastrointestinal tract 33: Michael H. Miller, Frank Sullivan, and John F. Dillon: Liver disease 34: Dhiraj Yadav: Pancreatitis 35: Dolly Baliunas: Diabetes 36: Tarakad S. Ramachandran: Neurological and mental disorders 37: Andriy V.Samokhvalov, Paul A. Shuper, and Jürgen Rehm: Infectious disease 38: Kenneth R. Warren and Margaret M. Murray: Alcohol and pregnancy: fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and the fetal alcohol syndrome VIII. Therapeutic aspects: current approaches 39: Amy O'Donnell and Eileen Kaner: Screening of high-risk drinkers 40: Eileen Kaner and Amy O'Donnell: Brief intervention: does it work? 41: Michael Soyka: Drug therapy: reviewing the evidence IX. Alcohol policy 42: Paul Miller and Marjana Martinic: 1. The private sector and public policy: can they be reconciled? 43: Aneel Karnani: Impact of alcohol on poverty and the need for appropriate policy 44: Esa Österberg: Control of alcohol availability: historical and current policies and their effects 45: Michael Livingston: Taxation and price control 46: Christine M. Wickens, Robert E. Mann, Gina Stoduto, Rosely Flam-Zalcman, and Jennifer Butters: Alcohol control measures and traffic safety 47: Claire Wilkinson: Public information and education campaigns 48: Harry Burns: Public information and education campaigns