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Many individuals use alcohol as a short-term means for coping with social and other anxieties, but this can paradoxically lead to harmful drinking and far greater problems. Patients with phobic anxiety are particularly at risk for developing alcohol problems. In addition, the symptoms of alcohol withdrawal may mimic those of an anxiety state the dependent drinker may complain of feeling anxious and restless in the... 

Hill SY, Shen S, Lowers L and Locke J (2000). Factors predicting the onset of adolescent drinking in families at high risk for developing alcoholism. Biological Psychiatry, 48, 265-275. 

Twin, family and adoption studies have provided compelling evidence that there is genetic as well as environmental risk for developing alcoholism. Genetic and environmental factors contribute approximately equal proportions to risk in both men and women [1],... 

Cross-fostering adoption studies have similarly demonstrated support for a genetic contribution to risk for developing alcohol or drug abuse problems. In an examination of 913 women adopted by nonrelatives at an early age Bohman and colleagues (1981) found a... 

Services should be flexible—people develop alcohol problems for many different reasons and therefore their needs cannot be met in a uniform way. Services should offer a variety of responses to their clients. 

The idea that the stereochemical outcome of an intramolecular enolate alkylation is determined by chelation in the transition state was recently demonstrated by Denmark and Henke, who observed a marked preference for a "closed transition state (coordination of the cationic counterion to an enolate and the developing alcohol) resulting in a syn product. For example, the highest syn anti ratio (89 11) was obtained in toluene and the lowest syn.anti ratio (2 98) was obtained with a crown ether. These observations parallel the facial selectivities described herein and in ref 11 on the intramolecular SN2 reaction see (a) Denmark, S. A. Henke, B. R. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1991, 113, 2177. (b) Denmark, S. A. Henke, B. R. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1989, 111, 8022. 

Several significant correlations between the numbers of chlorines and the molecular descriptors with different number of carbons have been developed. Alcohols show a significant correlation with HOMO, LUMO, and AE aldehydes show an inverse correlation with LUMO and aromatic compounds show a direct correlation with log P. Other classes and descriptors did not show significant correlations (see Figure 5.17). 

A key effect of addictive psychotropic drugs is to increase the extracellular concentration of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens. Ethanol does this in part by direct excitation of the mesolimbic dopamine neurons projecting to the accumbens (Koyama et al. 2007). However, studies in alcohol-preferring rats, animals which tend to develop alcohol dependence, have indicated an additional component a reduction of presynaptic D2 autoreceptor function (Engleman et al. 2003 Thielen et al. 2004). 

Jacobson JL Jacobson SW (2002b) Effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on child development. Alcohol Res Health, 26(4) 282-286. 

J. W., 8c Kaplan-Estrin, G. (1993). Teratogenic effects of alcohol on infant development. Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research, 17, 174-183. 

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Alcoholic liver disease differs clinically and biochemically from other forms of hepatitis and liver disease. It is a common cause of liver disease in the developed world but the incidence of acute alcoholic hepatitis seems to be declining in North America and Europe. Risk factors for developing alcoholic liver disease include ... 

Alcohol inhibits gluconeogenesis and some patients are prone to develop hypoglycaemia 6-36 hours after alcohol ingestion, especially if they are malnourished or fasted. A small number of these malnourished patients develop alcoholic ketoacidosis. 

The routes and rates of ethanol oxidation vary from individual to individual. Differences in ethanol metabolism may influence whether an individual becomes a chronic alcoholic, develops alcohol-induced liver disease, or develops other diseases associated with increased alcohol consumption (such as hepatocarcinogene-sis, lung cancer, or breast cancer). Factors that determine the rate and route of ethanol oxidation in individuals include ... 

Sorbitol results from the reduction of the Ci on glucose. This diastereoisomer of mannitol is totally absent from healthy grapes. Varying quantities are formed when Botrytis cinerea develops. Alcoholic fermentation produces approximately 30 mg/1. Lactic bacteria do not form this compound. Large quantities of sorbitol indicate that wine has been mixed with wines made from other fruits. Besides rowan berries Sorbus aucuparia), from which it takes its name, apples, pears and cherries also have a high sorbitol content. 

Braconnet in 1833, is the oldest of the synthetic plastics. It is made by treating fibrous cellulose with a mbcture of nitric and sulfuric acids, and was first used in the form of a lacquer (See collodion). In 1870, John Wesley Hyatt and his brother patented the use of plasticized cellulose nitrate as a solid, moldable material, the first commercial thermoplastic (celluloid). Camphor was the first (and is still the best) plasticizer for CN, although many camphor substitutes have been developed. Alcohol is normally used as a volatile solvent to assist in plasticization, after which it is removed. Molded products of CN are extremely tough, but highly flammable and subject to discoloration in sunlight. CN is amendable to many decorative variations. Its principal uses today are in knife handles, table-teimis balls, and eyeglass frames. A mixture of nitric and sulfuric acids converts cellulose into cellulose nitrate pyroxylin is a less nitrated material and it has been useful for photographic film, collodion, and celluloid plastics. 

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