Table of Contents
Contributors vii
Preface ix
1 Alcohol use: Consumption and costs 1Peter McGovern and Eric Appleby
2 Alcohol use: Society and politics 7Peter McGovern and Eric Appleby
3 Alcohol in the body 12Alex Paton and Anne McCune
4 Definitions 15Alex Paton
5 The nature of alcohol use disorders 19John B. Saunders
6 The detection of alcohol use disorders 25John B. Saunders
7 Medical problems 33Alex Paton
8 Problems in the Emergency Department – and their solutions 37Zulfiquar Mirza and Robin Touquet
9 Alcohol and the young person 42William Christian, Sian Veysey and Anne Frampton
10 Alcohol and the older person 46Jarrod Richards and Rachel Bradley
11 Alcohol and the liver 50Anne McCune
12 Surgical problems 56James S. Huntley
13 Alcohol, maxillofacial trauma and prevention of personal violence 61Jonathan Shepherd and Paul Jordan
14 Neurological and neurosurgical complications of alcohol 64Jane Alty and Jeremy Cosgrove
15 Alcohol and cancer 69Sarah L. Williams
16 Alcohol and the heart 74Nitin Kumar, Yasmin Ismail and Julian Strange
17 Drug–alcohol interactions 79Dan Harris
18 Management of acute unplanned alcohol withdrawal 84Adrian Brown and Anne McCune
19 The role of alcohol care teams in district general hospitals 89Kieran J. Moriarty
20 Management in primary care 95Carsten Grimm
21 Advice and counselling 99Nicola Taylor
22 Psychological treatment and relapse prevention 102Nicola Taylor
23 Alcohol and psychiatry 105Nicola Taylor
24 Other resources, and alcohol and the doctor 109Nicola Taylor
Index 000