British Journal of Addiction to Alcohol & Other DrugsVolume 74, Issue 1 p. 3-9 Free Access An Assessment of the Report of The Royal Commission on Gambling 1976–1978 * E. Moran M.A., M.B., M.R.C.P., F.R.C. Psych., D.P.M., E. Moran M.A., M.B., M.R.C.P., F.R.C. Psych., D.P.M. Consultant Psychiatrist, Enfield District Hospital, Chairman, Special Committee on Gambling, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Chairman, Society for the Study of GamblingSearch for more papers by this author E. Moran M.A., M.B., M.R.C.P., F.R.C. Psych., D.P.M., E. Moran M.A., M.B., M.R.C.P., F.R.C. Psych., D.P.M. Consultant Psychiatrist, Enfield District Hospital, Chairman, Special Committee on Gambling, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Chairman, Society for the Study of GamblingSearch for more papers by this author First published: March 1979 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.1979.tb02405.xCitations: 13 * Royal Commission on Gambling. Final Report Cmnd 7200 (HMSO, £7.50, two volumes). AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume74, Issue1March 1979Pages 3-9 ReferencesRelatedInformation
SummaryThis study provides a basic demographic profile of an emergency room alcohol patient population, and examines the relationships of age, ethnicity and sex to type of complaint at admission, likelihood of referral for further aid, type of psychiatric diagnosis given, and ultimate disposition of the case. One thousand, one hundred and eleven consecutive alcohol related admissions were included from the emergency room of a large, inner‐city county hospital of a city in which a substantial proportion of the population is Spanish and Negro. Alcohol admissions were predominantly Caucasian and male, with a modal age of 35 to 49 years. The most common medical diagnoses were, respectively, acute intoxication and chronic alcoholism, followed by organic brain syndromes and psychoses attributed to alcohol use, seizure disorders and alcohol‐related somatic complaints, and suicide attempts and bizarre behaviour under the influence of alcohol. 16.8% of these patients received psychiatric evaluation and only 21.8% were referred for further help with their alcohol related problems. Further breakdowns and relationships of these variables are discussed, and possible reasons for the observations are suggested.
British Journal of Addiction to Alcohol & Other DrugsVolume 74, Issue 3 p. 235-238 Why Does the Alcoholism Field Act Like a Ship of Fools? Don Cahalan Ph.D., Don Cahalan Ph.D. Professor of Public Health (Emeritus) and former Director, Social Research Group, University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.Search for more papers by this author Don Cahalan Ph.D., Don Cahalan Ph.D. Professor of Public Health (Emeritus) and former Director, Social Research Group, University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.Search for more papers by this author First published: September 1979 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.1979.tb01344.xCitations: 11AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume74, Issue3September 1979Pages 235-238 RelatedInformation
Summary The author uses two important therapies, Naikan Therapy (Self‐observation Psychotherapy) and Danshukai (Alcohol Abstinence Society), in treating Japanese alcoholics. Naikan Therapy is a method which is administered mainly in hospitals and is most suitable for patients to reflect on their past lives, retrieve the bonds of affection of their families and make up their minds to abstain from alcohol. Danshukai is an important method, particularly as after‐care following discharge in the sense that patients continue sticking to the resolution to give up drinking they made in the hospital, while keeping in touch with their fellow members for encouragement. These two methods were born in the Japanese Buddhist climate and are much alike in their basic principles. Particularly, regarding the family as important and making efforts with the family are outstanding features common to these two methods, and they can be administered one after the other to provide a synthetical effect.
British Journal of Addiction to Alcohol & Other DrugsVolume 74, Issue 1 p. 11-14 Free Access What I would most like to know One Unanswered Question about Alcoholism Jack H. Mendelson M.D., Jack H. Mendelson M.D. Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Center Harvard Medical School-McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, U.S.A.Search for more papers by this authorNancy K. Mello Ph.D., Nancy K. Mello Ph.D. Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Center Harvard Medical School-McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, U.S.A.Search for more papers by this author Jack H. Mendelson M.D., Jack H. Mendelson M.D. Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Center Harvard Medical School-McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, U.S.A.Search for more papers by this authorNancy K. Mello Ph.D., Nancy K. Mello Ph.D. Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Center Harvard Medical School-McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, U.S.A.Search for more papers by this author First published: March 1979 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.1979.tb02406.xCitations: 20AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume74, Issue1March 1979Pages 11-14 ReferencesRelatedInformation
British Journal of Addiction to Alcohol & Other DrugsVolume 74, Issue 4 p. 411-419 Drug Abuse in Punjab Brij Lal, Brij Lal Department of Psychiatry, Medical College and Rajendra Hospital, Patiala 147001, IndiaSearch for more papers by this authorGurmeet Singh, Gurmeet Singh Department of Psychiatry, Medical College and Rajendra Hospital, Patiala 147001, IndiaSearch for more papers by this author Brij Lal, Brij Lal Department of Psychiatry, Medical College and Rajendra Hospital, Patiala 147001, IndiaSearch for more papers by this authorGurmeet Singh, Gurmeet Singh Department of Psychiatry, Medical College and Rajendra Hospital, Patiala 147001, IndiaSearch for more papers by this author First published: December 1979 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.1979.tb01370.xCitations: 11AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume74, Issue4December 1979Pages 411-419 RelatedInformation
SummaryWhether based on production, tax or sales statistics, estimates of alcohol consumption are subject to bias arising from record keeping procedures and from unrecorded consumption. Based on an analysis of the accuracy of consumption estimates derived from sales statistics in Ontario, two significant biases are identified. The first problem concerns the use of 16 per cent as the conversion factor for wine. As the consumption of 12 per cent table wines has increased, this figure is no longer appropriate and results in an over estimation of total alcohol consumption by about 2 per cent. The second major problem is the unrecorded home production of wine and wine brandy, which results in an underestimation of consumption by about 6 to 7 per cent. The available evidence concerning other types of unrecorded production indicates that they are not significant. It is concluded that sales data underestimate ‘true’ alcohol consumption in Ontario by about 4 to 6 per cent at this time.
British Journal of Addiction to Alcohol & Other DrugsVolume 74, Issue 4 p. 349-352 Free Access Commentary on Shaw J. S. Madden, J. S. Madden Consultant Psychiatrist, Mersey Regional Alcohol and Drug Dependence Unit, Moston Hospital, Liverpool Road, Chester CH2 4AASearch for more papers by this author J. S. Madden, J. S. Madden Consultant Psychiatrist, Mersey Regional Alcohol and Drug Dependence Unit, Moston Hospital, Liverpool Road, Chester CH2 4AASearch for more papers by this author First published: December 1979 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.1979.tb01362.xCitations: 9AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume74, Issue4December 1979Pages 349-352 ReferencesRelatedInformation
British Journal of Addiction to Alcohol & Other DrugsVolume 74, Issue 4 p. 431-434 About Tobias and Me Tom Smith, Corresponding Author Tom SmithReprint requests to ‘Tom Smith’, c/o Howard Rankin, Addiction Research Unit, 101 Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF.Search for more papers by this author Tom Smith, Corresponding Author Tom SmithReprint requests to ‘Tom Smith’, c/o Howard Rankin, Addiction Research Unit, 101 Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF.Search for more papers by this author First published: December 1979 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.1979.tb01372.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume74, Issue4December 1979Pages 431-434 RelatedInformation
Summary Participant observation has played an ‘under dog’ role as the methodology of choice in the social sciences in general and social policy evaluation in particular. Part of this reluctance by social science researchers to use participant observation has stemmed from what they see as a lack of clarity and precision practitioners of participant observation have had in defining exactly what it is participant observation does and how it may practically be applied in the field. Thus the value of participant observation has been questioned due to its lack of definitive structure. This paper is an account of how participant observation works, what can be expected from it, and how it is different from other more orthodox methodologies. Participant observation is now being used by the Evaluation Studies Department of the Addiction Research Foundation as one of the methods of inquiry into the nature and structure of recovery homes for alcoholics. The account presented here, uses the application of participant observation in the evaluation of halfway houses as a means of illustrating how participant observation operates in the field.
SummaryThis paper follows up an earlier study, published under the title The Gentlemen's Club, of the system of drug and alcohol control operating through multilateral treaties and United Nations organs. It reviews some changes which have occurred in the period 1973–78 in drug use patterns, illicit trafficking, control machinery, sources of national influence on international policy‐making and the approach adopted towards drug abuse. It discusses four major issues in international drug control: the new goal of demand reduction, opium crop substitution projects, channelling development aid into the UN Fund for Drug Abuse Control and the control of psychotropic substances.
Summary The development of functional tolerance In ethanol has been studied in control mice and in mice which are physically dependent an ethanol. Physical dependence is associated with a state of submaximal functional tolerance. which can neither be increased nor reduced rapidly in response to altered tissue concentrations of the drug.
British Journal of Addiction to Alcohol & Other DrugsVolume 74, Issue 1 p. 31-35 Training Paraprofessionals in the Treatment of Alcoholism: Differences in Effects Due to Prior History of Alcohol and Drug Abuse * John Gruber, John Gruber Harbor Light Alcohol Treatment Center, 3611 Cass Avenue, Detriot, Mich. 48201Search for more papers by this authorGerald Wehmer, Gerald Wehmer Harbor Light Alcohol Treatment Center, 3611 Cass Avenue, Detriot, Mich. 48201Search for more papers by this authorGerald Cooke, Gerald Cooke Norristown State Hospital, Norristown, Pa. 19401, U.S.A.Search for more papers by this author John Gruber, John Gruber Harbor Light Alcohol Treatment Center, 3611 Cass Avenue, Detriot, Mich. 48201Search for more papers by this authorGerald Wehmer, Gerald Wehmer Harbor Light Alcohol Treatment Center, 3611 Cass Avenue, Detriot, Mich. 48201Search for more papers by this authorGerald Cooke, Gerald Cooke Norristown State Hospital, Norristown, Pa. 19401, U.S.A.Search for more papers by this author First published: March 1979 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.1979.tb02409.x * This study was supported in part by Grant MH 12195–02 from the National Institute of Mental Health. Address offprint requests to Dr Wehmer. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume74, Issue1March 1979Pages 31-35 RelatedInformation
SummaryThe purpose of this paper is to disentangle the relationship between alcohol control policy and commercial policy. Restaurant trade and the development of on the premises consumption has been used as an example of this relationship. Developments in the Finnish restaurant trade form a good framework for this kind of analysis because of the big changes within the past few decades. The analysis shows clearly that the conflict between alcohol control policy and commercial policy tends to narrow down the scope for the pursuit of alcohol control policy. This article attempts to emphasize that influences brought to bear on commercial policy must be seen as a part ‐ and often very central part ‐ of the totality of alcohol control policy.
SummaryDiscussions of the varying levels of alcohol consumption within a population usually focus on the alcohol consumption distribution curve. An alternative way of looking at this information is introduced by defining a ‘consumption containment rate ‘, which is interpretable as a population's tendency to contain its drinking within any given level. Parallels with the concept of age specific mortality rates are drawn. It is argued that the CCR is a useful concept in analysing data and in comparing populations, and two examples are given. Some of Ledermann's data and his use of the log‐normal distribution curve are re‐appraised through the use of the CCR.
SummaryField dependent individuals, who are characterized primitive, find it difficult to separate the figure‐ground relationship and consequently do poorly on embedded figure tests. Heroin addicts have also been described as being fixated at an early level of psychosexual development, using the more primitive avoidance defences. It was therefore hypothesized that addicts would be more field dependent on a perceptual disembedding task than non‐addicts. Also, although both groups should learn from practice on this task, non‐addicts will exhibit greater improvement than addicts. Thirty male addicts between the ages of 18 to 28 and an equated group of non‐addicts were administered Part 1 and Part 2 of the Hidden Figure Test cf‐1 with a 120 s interval between the parts. Both hypotheses were supported at the 0.001 level. However, these differences are not enough to distinguish addicts from other highly field dependent nosological groups. Also, additional research must be undertaken in order to understand the connection between this type of cognitive functioning and current low addict rehabilitation rates.
British Journal of Addiction to Alcohol & Other DrugsVolume 74, Issue 2 p. 115-132 Comments on ‘The Pattern and Range of Services for Problem Drinkers’ Report by the Advisory Committee on Alcoholism to the DHSS and Welsh Office 1978 * Max M. Glatt, Max M. Glatt Galsworthy House, Kingston Hill, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT2 7LXSearch for more papers by this authorMarcus Grant, Marcus Grant Alcohol Education Centre, 99 Denmark Hill, London SE5Search for more papers by this authorRay Hodgson, Ray Hodgson Addiction Research Unit, 101 Denmark Hill, London SE5Search for more papers by this authorBrian O'Leary, Brian O'Leary Alcoholics Recovery Project, 131 Camberwell Road, London SE5Search for more papers by this authorStan Shaw, Stan Shaw Detoxification Evaluation Project, 113 Denmark Hill, London SE5Search for more papers by this authorDouglas Taylor, Douglas Taylor Member of the London Council of Alcoholism, 146 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4V 4BXSearch for more papers by this authorAnthony Thorley, Anthony Thorley St Nicholas Hospital, Gosforth, New castle-upon-Tyne NE3 3XTSearch for more papers by this author Max M. Glatt, Max M. Glatt Galsworthy House, Kingston Hill, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT2 7LXSearch for more papers by this authorMarcus Grant, Marcus Grant Alcohol Education Centre, 99 Denmark Hill, London SE5Search for more papers by this authorRay Hodgson, Ray Hodgson Addiction Research Unit, 101 Denmark Hill, London SE5Search for more papers by this authorBrian O'Leary, Brian O'Leary Alcoholics Recovery Project, 131 Camberwell Road, London SE5Search for more papers by this authorStan Shaw, Stan Shaw Detoxification Evaluation Project, 113 Denmark Hill, London SE5Search for more papers by this authorDouglas Taylor, Douglas Taylor Member of the London Council of Alcoholism, 146 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4V 4BXSearch for more papers by this authorAnthony Thorley, Anthony Thorley St Nicholas Hospital, Gosforth, New castle-upon-Tyne NE3 3XTSearch for more papers by this author First published: June 1979 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.1979.tb02421.xCitations: 1 * London, HMSO. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume74, Issue2June 1979Pages 115-132 RelatedInformation
SummaryThe use of carbamazepine in the treatment of chronic alcohol abusers has been described by Brune and Busch (1971), Löfgren (1972), Roaldsnes (1972) and Gammer (1976), among others. Ritola (1975) compared the effects of clomethiazole and carbamazepine in the treatment of alcoholics using double‐blind techniques at Törnävä Hospital in 1974. Björkqvist and co‐workers (1976) carried out a comparative multi‐centre trial with carbamazepine and placebo. The positive results obtained in these clinical trials encouraged us to study carbamazepine in the treatment of alcohol abusers in a withdrawal unit for alcoholics.
British Journal of Addiction to Alcohol & Other DrugsVolume 74, Issue 3 p. 316-317 Lack of Effect of Alcohol on Pituitary-Gonadal Hormones in Women B. McNamee, B. McNamee Ravenscraig Hospital, GreenockSearch for more papers by this authorJ. Grant, J. Grant Department of Steroid Biochemistry, Royal Infirmary, GlasgowSearch for more papers by this authorJ. Ratcliffe, J. Ratcliffe Department of Biochemistry, Royal Infirmary, GlasgowSearch for more papers by this authorW. Ratcliffe, W. Ratcliffe Department of Biochemistry, Royal Infirmary, GlasgowSearch for more papers by this authorJ. Oliver, J. Oliver Department of Forensic Medicine, University of GlasgowSearch for more papers by this author B. McNamee, B. McNamee Ravenscraig Hospital, GreenockSearch for more papers by this authorJ. Grant, J. Grant Department of Steroid Biochemistry, Royal Infirmary, GlasgowSearch for more papers by this authorJ. Ratcliffe, J. Ratcliffe Department of Biochemistry, Royal Infirmary, GlasgowSearch for more papers by this authorW. Ratcliffe, W. Ratcliffe Department of Biochemistry, Royal Infirmary, GlasgowSearch for more papers by this authorJ. Oliver, J. Oliver Department of Forensic Medicine, University of GlasgowSearch for more papers by this author First published: September 1979 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.1979.tb01354.xCitations: 24AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume74, Issue3September 1979Pages 316-317 RelatedInformation
