Alcoholism - Research News and Information

Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Screening for alcohol use and misuse in older adults: using the Short Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test--Geriatric Version.

30 Oct 2008 The Short Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test--Geriatric Version (SMAST-G) is often used in outpatient settings to detect "at-risk" alcohol use, alcohol abuse, or alcoholism in older adults. As the number of older adults in the United States grows, ... Read more...

Evaluation of training of surgery interns to perform brief alcohol interventions for trauma patients.

30 Oct 2008 BACKGROUND: Because nearly half of injured patients admitted to trauma centers misuse alcohol, the American College of Surgeons has required that Level I trauma centers have a mechanism for providing brief bedside counseling interventions (BI) to ... Read more...

[Alcohol-related disorders in the preclinical medicine]

26 Oct 2008 Alcohol is the most frequently abused drug in Germany. Approximately 50.000 individuals die annually due to alcohol-related disorders. Emergency situations due to alcohol intoxications, abuse or dependence are frequent reasons for calls for ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Alcoholism'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The CAGE questionnaire for detection of alcoholism: a remarkably useful but simple tool. 3 Nov 2008
• Screening for alcohol use and misuse in older adults: using the Short Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test--Geriatric Version. 30 Oct 2008
• Evaluation of training of surgery interns to perform brief alcohol interventions for trauma patients. 30 Oct 2008
• [Alcohol-related disorders in the preclinical medicine] 26 Oct 2008
• Predictors of relapse to alcohol and illicit drugs after liver transplantation for alcoholic liver disease. 25 Oct 2008
• Review. Neurogenetic studies of alcohol addiction. 10 Oct 2008
• Review. Cognitive and emotional consequences of binge drinking: role of amygdala and prefrontal cortex. 10 Oct 2008
• Association of PTPRB gene polymorphism with drug addiction. 3 Oct 2008
• A novel non-parametric regression reveals linkage on chromosome 4 for the number of externalizing symptoms in sib-pairs. 3 Oct 2008
• The prognostic role of comorbidity in salivary gland carcinoma. 29 Sep 2008
• High rates of unprotected sex occurring among HIV-positive individuals in a daily diary study in South Africa: the role of alcohol use. 29 Sep 2008
• The disease of addiction: origins, treatment, and recovery. 29 Sep 2008
• Cost and cost-effectiveness of the COMBINE study in alcohol-dependent patients. 29 Sep 2008
• Association of alcohol consumption with brain volume in the Framingham study. 29 Sep 2008
• [Low carbohydrate diet, liquorice, spinning and alcohol--life-threatening combination] 29 Sep 2008
• [Severe metabolic acidosis in an alcoholic] 27 Sep 2008
• StatBite: Alcohol-related deaths from chronic causes among American Indians and Alaska Natives. 21 Sep 2008
• [Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-step programs] 20 Sep 2008
• [Brief intervention in primary health care for patients with excessive alcohol drinking--is it effective?] 20 Sep 2008
• Alcohol dependence drug prompts warning. 15 Sep 2008

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Technical information about 'Alcoholism'

Definition: A primary, chronic disease with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations. The disease is often progressive and fatal. It is characterized by impaired control over drinking, preoccupation with the drug alcohol, use of alcohol despite adverse consequences, and distortions in thinking, most notably denial. Each of these symptoms may be continuous or periodic. (Morse & Flavin for the Joint Commission of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence and the American Society of Addiction Medicine to Study the Definition and Criteria for the Diagnosis of Alcoholism: in JAMA 1992;268:1012-4)

Descriptor UI: D000437

Alternative terms: Alcoholism; Alcoholic Intoxication, Chronic; Chronic Alcoholic Intoxication; Intoxication, Chronic Alcoholic; Alcohol Abuse; Abuse, Alcohol;

Related Mesh Headings: Alcohol Deterrents; Alcoholics Anonymous; Fetal Alcohol Syndrome; Psychoses, Alcoholic; Temperance;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C21.739.100.250; F03.900.100.350;

Technical Notes: human & animal; do not coord with CHRONIC DISEASE: alcoholism is presumed to be chronic; differentiate from ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION, being drunk, not chronic; acute alcoholic intox & binge drinking is ETHANOL /pois; /drug ther: consider also ALCOHOL DETERRENTS; consider also LIVER DISEASES, ALCOHOLIC & its specifics FATTY LIVER, ALCOHOLIC; HEPATITIS, ALCOHOLIC & LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; also PANCREATITIS, ALCOHOLIC; also CARDIOMYOPATHY, ALCOHOLIC; PSYCHOSES, ALCOHOLIC & FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; index other compl of alcoholism under ALCOHOLISM /compl (IM) + disease /etiol not /chem ind (IM); abstinence from alcohol in alcoholism: coord with TEMPERANCE (NIM); available is SKID ROW ALCOHOLICS see HOMELESS PERSONS but see note there