Special Report (10th) to the U.S. Congress on Alcohol and Health: Highlights from Current Research from the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

摘要

The Tenth Special Report to the U.S. Congress on Alcohol and Health presents significant new scientific findings about alcohol abuse and alcoholism since the last Special Report, issued in 1997. These findings clearly demonstrate that alcohol investigators working in fields as diverse as epidemiology, genetics, neuroscience, toxicology, prevention, and treatment are using the very latest tools and techniques of science to expand our knowledge of how to prevent, reduce, and treat alcohol problems. Because alcohol use problems exact such a personal, social, and economic toll on the American people an estimated 100,000 lives and $184.6 billion annually the scientific progress described in the Tenth Special Report is heartening. Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Drinking Over the Life Span: Issues of Biology, Behavior, and Risk; Chapter 2: Alcohol and the Brain: Neuroscience and Neurobehavior; Chapter 3: Genetic and Psychosocial Influences; Chapter 4: Medical Consequences; Chapter 5: Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol; Chapter 6: Economic and Health Services Perspectives; Chapter 7: Prevention Research; and Chapter 8: Treatment Research.