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Malnutrition in Substance Use Disorders: A Critical Issue in Their Treatment and Recovery. [PDF]

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García-Estrada J   +9 more
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Alcohol and Alcoholism

1978
Alcohol exerts a series of different effects, especially when ingested chronically, and alcoholism is a rather complex, heterogeneous disease. Genetic factors may be implicated on various levels such as metabolism, acute effects, tolerance, dependence, and medical complications. This presentation will be arranged in three parts: (1) The main results of
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Alcoholic children of alcoholics.

Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 1981
of the fathers and 8.0% of the mothers of female alcoholic probands. When estimated rates of alcoholism in a general population have been compared with those in the families of alcoholics (4-7), men alcoholics have been found to be 2.2 times as likely as men in the general population to have an alcoholic father and 1.6 times as likely to have an ...
T McKenna, R Pickens
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Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Cancer

Medical Clinics of North America, 1984
Certain types of cancer are clearly associated with alcohol abuse, although the role of ethanol in carcinogenesis--as a carcinogen, co-carcinogen, promoter, or "innocent bystander"--is not known with certainty. The impact of alcohol abuse on the management of the patient with cancer is also discussed.
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Alcohol and Alcoholism

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1970
Bela Schick once observed that after 20 years scientists are no longer quoted in the medical literature. "Every 20 years sees a republication of the same ideas." If the generation gap in scientific communication is unfortunate, so, too, is the geographical gap—ie, the poor flow of information from country to country.
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Alcoholism as Blaming the Alcoholic

International Journal of the Addictions, 1976
Theories of alcoholism tend to blame the alcoholic by implying that most American drinkers have an ability, which the alcoholic lacks, to drink without problems. The presence or absence of this ability or capacity presumably accounts for the incidence of alcohol problems in society.
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