{"title":"Premature termination of treatment among alcoholics: predicting outpatient clinic dropouts.","authors":"G R Jacobson, E M Rubin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Authors predicted that adult alcoholics with relatively higher scores on obsessive-compulsive drinking subscale of Alcohol Use Inventory (AUI-4) and psychasthenia scale of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-7) would be better candidates for successful completion of traditional outpatient treatment. Both tests were administered to 89 successively admitted outpatients who were tracked through treatment and later classified as dropouts (premature unilateral termination of treatment, N = 57), mutuals (patient-therapist agreement on appropriate termination, N = 22), or open cases (patients still in treatment at end of 6 months, N = 10). AUI-4, but not MMPI-7, successfully identified dropouts, mutuals, and open cases, and significantly differentiated between dropouts and all other patients. AUI-4 and MMPI-7 were significantly and positively correlated, and AUI-4, but not MMPI-7, was significantly and positively related to number of therapy sessions.</p>","PeriodicalId":75769,"journal":{"name":"Currents in alcoholism","volume":"8 ","pages":"167-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18353248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Abnormal electroencephalograms in male alcoholics after methohexital (brevital) injection. A pilot study.","authors":"R A Brumback, M J Kelly, R D Staton","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75769,"journal":{"name":"Currents in alcoholism","volume":"8 ","pages":"57-77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18356934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D Gregory, R K Jones, O H Rundell, T Stanitis, P Stanhope
{"title":"Feasibility of an alcoholism health insurance benefit.","authors":"D Gregory, R K Jones, O H Rundell, T Stanitis, P Stanhope","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present study examined the impact of alcoholism treatment upon the subsequent utilization of health care services. Information gathered on a sample of 2,362 alcoholic clients at time of admission and six months later, was utilized to compare the savings in medical care expenses with the costs of alcoholism treatment. For the first year following treatment, costs exceeded savings by an average of $263 per client (benefit-cost ratio = 0.63:1). However, if the savings were sustained, the benefits would exceed costs within two years of the treatment period. These findings support the notion that alcoholism treatment produces a reduction in medical costs and provides some economic justification for an alcoholism insurance benefit.</p>","PeriodicalId":75769,"journal":{"name":"Currents in alcoholism","volume":"8 ","pages":"195-202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17857862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The swift increase in alcohol metabolism.","authors":"T Yuki, R G Thurman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Gastric intubation of female Sprague-Dawley rats with 5 g of ethanol/kg body wt doubled oxygen and ethanol uptake by the isolated perfused rat liver after only 2-5 h of treatment (Swift Increase in Alcohol Metabolism). Diminished ATP generation via glycolysis accounts for a portion of the increased oxygen uptake. These data indicate that at least part of the stimulated oxygen uptake after treatment with ethanol is a result of lower rates of glycolytic ATP generation resulting from hormone action. The ADP not phosphorylated in the cytocol enters the mitochondrion where it stimulates oxygen uptake.</p>","PeriodicalId":75769,"journal":{"name":"Currents in alcoholism","volume":"8 ","pages":"445-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17274831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D H Van Thiel, J S Gavaler, P K Eagon, C F Cobb, Y B Chiao, R Lester
{"title":"Adverse effects of ethanol upon sexual functioning: experimental studies in animals.","authors":"D H Van Thiel, J S Gavaler, P K Eagon, C F Cobb, Y B Chiao, R Lester","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75769,"journal":{"name":"Currents in alcoholism","volume":"8 ","pages":"471-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18092062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neuropsychological concomitants of alcoholism.","authors":"M J Eckhardt, R S Ryback","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75769,"journal":{"name":"Currents in alcoholism","volume":"8 ","pages":"5-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18092063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Symptoms of neonatal ethanol withdrawal.","authors":"L B Robe, D S Gromisch, S Iosub","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Neonatal withdrawal symptoms in 15 cases of fetal alcohol syndrome with maternal intoxication at time of delivery, reported in 9 studies, are compared with symptoms reported in 138 cases of neonatal narcotic withdrawal. Seen frequently in ethanol but rarely in narcotic withdrawal are abdominal distention and opisthotonos. Seen frequently in narcotic but rarely in ethanol withdrawal are high pitch cry, frequent yawning, excessive sucking, mottling of the skin, excoriation, nasal stuffiness, excess sweating, sleeplessness and diarrhea. Seen frequently in both are increased muscle tonicity and tremors; however, convulsions are rare in narcotic yet are fairly frequent in neonatal ethanol withdrawal.</p>","PeriodicalId":75769,"journal":{"name":"Currents in alcoholism","volume":"8 ","pages":"485-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18356932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychiatric diagnosis among female alcoholics.","authors":"J A Halikas, M A Herzog, M M Mirassou, M D Lyttle","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75769,"journal":{"name":"Currents in alcoholism","volume":"8 ","pages":"283-91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18353252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R W Coger, E A Serafetinides, A M Dymond, I Lowenstam, D Pearson
{"title":"EEG differences between male alcoholics in withdrawal and those stabilized in treatment.","authors":"R W Coger, E A Serafetinides, A M Dymond, I Lowenstam, D Pearson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There is evidence that alcohol abuse and withdrawal produces cerebral impairment, some of which may be temporary and some permanent. This impairment has been found to be relatively specific in terms of brain areas affected. Recently our laboratory reported evidence that psychometrically measured impairment was systematically related to the energy in high frequency (beta-2) bands of the EEG. In the present study we attempted to determine the EEG patterns for male alcoholics undergoing withdrawal in comparison to patients who had been stabilized.</p>","PeriodicalId":75769,"journal":{"name":"Currents in alcoholism","volume":"8 ","pages":"85-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18356936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of ethanol concentration on rates of ethanol elimination in normal rats in vivo.","authors":"G D Wendell, R G Thurman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75769,"journal":{"name":"Currents in alcoholism","volume":"5 ","pages":"81-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11441333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}