Alcohol and the addictive brain
Subtitle: new hope for alcoholics from biogenetic research
By: Kenneth Blum ; in collaboration with James E. Payne.
Contributors: Payne, James E.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Alcoholism -- Genetic aspects; Brain -- Effect of drugs on; Alcohol -- Physiological effect; Alcoholism -- Treatment; Alcoholism -- Prevention; Alcohol, Ethyl -- adverse effects; Alcohol, Ethyl -- pharmacology; Alcoholism -- genetics; Brain -- drug effects; Alcoholism -- therapy; Alcoholism -- prevention & control
Description: Presents a new understanding of alcohol addiction and gives an account of new discoveries in the treatment and prevention of alcoholism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-287) and index.
Table of contents: title: From stigma to solutions – Alcoholism : a legacy of pain for alcoholics, families, and society -- Self-help approaches to treatment : alcoholics anonymous -- Biopsychic approaches to treatment : frustration and progress -- The neuron : a primer of brain function -- Science and the disease concept -- The biochemistry of alcoholism : early clues -- The opiate connection -- Poppies of the brain -- Malfunction of the reward messengers -- Toward a craving model -- The reward cascade -- Alcogenes -- The addictive brain : hope for a cure.