The A-Z Encyclopedia of Alcohol and Drug Abuse by Thomas Nordegren
By Thomas Nordegren
With greater than 30.000 entries The A-Z Enczclopedia on Alcohol and Substance Abuse is the main entire and entire reference e-book within the box of Substance Abuse. an invaluable instruction manual and dealing device for drug abuse execs. The Encyclopedia is produced in shut co-operation with the ICAA, foreign Council on Alcohol and Addictions, when you consider that its inception in 1907 the world's major expert non-governmental employer operating with drug-abuse comparable matters.
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Morbid craving for alcohol, delirium tremens. 2. Alcoholism, in French alcoolomanie and German Alkoholimanie and Italian Alcoolomania. Alcoholometer An instrument, such as a hydrometer, used to determine the amount of alcohol in a solution. Alcoholometry Measurement of alcohol content in a liquid. Alcoholophilia Synonyme for alcoholomania. Alcoholophobia Fear of alcohol.
However, whilst many dependent people may share experiences of loneliness, frustration, or anxiety, no one has identified a single personality type that will become alcoholic. Social an cultural factors may play a role in establishing drinking patterns and dependence. Dependence has been found to occur in succeeding generations of the same family. Although there is no conclusive indication of how the alcohol dependence of family members is associated, studies show that 50 to 80 percent of all dependents have had a close relative who was also alcohol dependent.
Methanol and ethanol are monohydric alcohols. Alcohols are further classified as primary, secondary, or tertiary, according to whether one, two, or three other carbon atoms 31 are bound to the carbon atom to which the hydroxyl group is bound. Alcohols, although analogous to inorganic bases, are neither acid nor alkaline. They are characterized by many common reactions, the most important of which is the reaction with acids to form substances called esters, which are analogous to inorganic salts.