{"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}
{"title":"Alcoholism: an introduction to research on social issues.","authors":"R Douglass","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75769,"journal":{"name":"Currents in alcoholism","volume":"7 ","pages":"353-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11756384","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":"Social activity and drinking patterns.","authors":"T C Harford, E K Gerstel, C Pautler, C Hoban","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper reports data on the relationship between social activity and daily alcohol consumption in a random sample of adults in metropolitan Boston. The findings indicate that the frequency of going to bars and attending parties was significantly related to daily alcohol consumption.</p>","PeriodicalId":75769,"journal":{"name":"Currents in alcoholism","volume":"7 ","pages":"373-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11756386","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":"Depression in female alcoholics.","authors":"E W Fine, S A Richman, M Teichman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75769,"journal":{"name":"Currents in alcoholism","volume":"7 ","pages":"447-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11756392","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":"Relationships of subclinical depression, psychopathy and hysteria to patterns of alcohol consumption and abuse in males and females.","authors":"E E Gorenstein","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Personality studies have consistently indicated a high prevalence of both psychopathy and depression among chronic alcoholics. This study examined the relationship of subclinical depression, psychopathy and hysteria (MMPI) to reported alcohol consumption and abuse (MAST scores) in a normal population of 18--21 year-olds. Both depression and psychopathy were positively related to frequency of consumption whereas hysteria was not. Separate analyses of the data were conducted by sex. Psychopathy and depression were positively related to consumption among males but not among females. Hysteria was positively related to consumption among females but not among males. Regarding abusive drinking, both depression and psychopathy were related to MAST scores among females whereas only psychopathy was among males. Hysteria was unrelated to MAST scores among both sexes. These results support the hypothesis that different psychological processes are involved in the drinking behavior of males and females. The results also underscore the importance of distinguishing simple consumption from abuse. Within the male and female groups, those personality variables related to consumption were not necessarily related to abuse and vice versa.</p>","PeriodicalId":75769,"journal":{"name":"Currents in alcoholism","volume":"7 ","pages":"207-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11757700","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 influence of arginine vasopressin and oxytocin on ethanol dependence and tolerance.","authors":"P L Hoffman, R F Ritzmann, B Tabokoff","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75769,"journal":{"name":"Currents in alcoholism","volume":"5 ","pages":"5-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11777241","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":"A comparison of alcoholics and heroin abusers: computerized transaxial tomography and neuropsychological functioning.","authors":"S Y Hill, R B Reyes, M Mikhael, F Ayre","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A number of conclusions may be drawn from the present neuropsychological and neuroanatomical assessment of alcoholic and heroin abusers: (1) Heroin abusers display deficits on the Category Test, TPT (Time and Localization) and Raven's Progressive Matrices (Set I and II) when compared to controls. (2) Alcoholics show significantly greater deficits than heroin abusers on these tests. (3) Duration of heroin and alcohol abuse are positively related to the extent of the observed deficits. (4) Observed deficits on the Progressive Matrices and Category tests appear to be reversible in the heroin abuser, but not the alcoholic, after comparable periods of remission. (5) The same proportion (1/15) of alcoholics and heroin abusers showed evidence of cerebral atrophy based on enlarged ventricular size.</p>","PeriodicalId":75769,"journal":{"name":"Currents in alcoholism","volume":"5 ","pages":"187-205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11956141","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":"Biomedical issues and clinical effects of alcoholism. Will power and denial, clinical findings about these pervasive concepts.","authors":"R H Landeen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75769,"journal":{"name":"Currents in alcoholism","volume":"5 ","pages":"301-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11956150","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":"Biomedical issues and clinical effects of alcoholism. Introduction.","authors":"M Galanter","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75769,"journal":{"name":"Currents in alcoholism","volume":"5 ","pages":"XIII-XIV"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11261860","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":"Continuing medical education in substance abuse, a follow-up study.","authors":"M R Liepman, S S Gilbert","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75769,"journal":{"name":"Currents in alcoholism","volume":"6 ","pages":"137-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11725092","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}