{"title":"Effects of catecholic tetrahydroisoquinolines on endogenous catecholamines.","authors":"M A Collins, J J Hannigan, C Weiner","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75769,"journal":{"name":"Currents in alcoholism","volume":"5 ","pages":"53-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11956159","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}
N Decker, W E Fann, P Girardin, D H Miller, T Kanas
{"title":"Alcoholism in a general hospital population.","authors":"N Decker, W E Fann, P Girardin, D H Miller, T Kanas","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75769,"journal":{"name":"Currents in alcoholism","volume":"6 ","pages":"33-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11725110","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 use of haloperidol to control agitation/violence during admission to an alcohol detoxification center.","authors":"J M Benforado, D Houden","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In a consecutive 24 month experience at a medical, non-hospital, alcohol detoxification center operating under a Uniform Alcoholism Act, the R.N.'s option (in the standing orders) for use of haloperidol (5 mg I.M.) proved remarkably beneficial in the control of agitation combativeness, or violence exhibited on admission. There were 24 instances of use during 6,947 admissions and undesired side effects were rare even in patients receiving the drug on multiple admissions.</p>","PeriodicalId":75769,"journal":{"name":"Currents in alcoholism","volume":"7 ","pages":"331-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11756383","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":"Alcoholism and alcohol abuse among regular marijuana users.","authors":"J A Halikas, R A Weller, T M Shapiro","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75769,"journal":{"name":"Currents in alcoholism","volume":"7 ","pages":"385-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11756387","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 relationship of changing alcohol availability to acute and chronic social and health problems.","authors":"R L Douglass, A C Wagenaar, P M Barkey","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75769,"journal":{"name":"Currents in alcoholism","volume":"7 ","pages":"401-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11756389","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":"Pre-delinquent and disturbed adolescents: the role of parental alcoholism.","authors":"C A Lund, S Landesman-Dwyer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75769,"journal":{"name":"Currents in alcoholism","volume":"5 ","pages":"339-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11956155","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":"Delayed myelination and lamination in the cerebral cortex of the albino rat as a result of the fetal alcohol syndrome.","authors":"S Jacobson, J Rich, N J Tovsky","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75769,"journal":{"name":"Currents in alcoholism","volume":"5 ","pages":"123-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11593392","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":"An introduction to psychological factors in the etiology and treatment of alcoholism.","authors":"G R Jacobson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75769,"journal":{"name":"Currents in alcoholism","volume":"7 ","pages":"189-205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11605724","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":"Alcohol use among Jewish adolescents: a 1977 sample.","authors":"J P Flanzer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75769,"journal":{"name":"Currents in alcoholism","volume":"6 ","pages":"257-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11725103","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":"Acute metabolic interaction of ethanol and drugs.","authors":"J M Khanna, S Chung, G Ho, G Shah","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Addition of ethanol in vitro was found to inhibit the microsomal metabolism of a variety of drugs such as meprobamate, aminopyrine, pentobarbital and zoxazolamine. In all cases, a mixed type of inhibition was obtained. When the concentration of alcohols of different chain lengths required to inhibit 50% of the metabolism of drugs was plotted against their corresponding octanol-water partition coefficients (Po/w) it was found that the inhibitory potency of alcohols is linearly related to the partition coefficients, with a slope of 0.98. In vivo acute administration of ethanol also resulted in decreased whole body metabolism of meprobamate, aminopyrine, pentobarbital, zoxazolamine and aniline. In vitro addition of pentobarbital, phenobarbital and meprobamate had no significant effect on ethanol metabolism by liver slices. Acute pretreatment with these drugs also had no effect on the rate of ethanol metabolism in vivo as measured in the whole body or as estimated from the rate of decrease of blood ethanol concentration. It appears therefore that acute metabolic interaction of ethanol and drugs is a one sided phenomenon, i.e. ethanol inhibits drug metabolism, whereas drugs do not inhibit ethanol metabolism. Ethanol inhibition of drug metabolism in vitro appears to result from a modification of the lipophilic milieu that surrounds the cytochrome P-450 in the microsomal membrane. Interference with the hydrophobic sites may either directly or indirectly affect the catalytic activities of the microsomal enzyme.</p>","PeriodicalId":75769,"journal":{"name":"Currents in alcoholism","volume":"7 ","pages":"93-108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11756286","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}