Alcohol Science, Policy and Public Health

by Boyle, Peter; Boffetta, Paolo; Lowenfels, Albert B.; Burns, Harry; Brawley, Otis; Zatonski, Witold; Rehm, Jürgen

• ISBN13: 9780199655786
• ISBN10: 0199655782
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-06-10
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Table of Contents

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