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[1] Some of the main conclusions of Vaillant's book are: That alcoholism is as much a social as a medical condition. "Alcoholism can simultaneously reflect both a conditioned habit and a disease." [2] Factors predicting alcoholism were related to ethnic culture, alcoholism in relatives, and a personality that is antisocial and extroverted.
She believed alcoholism runs in the family, and education of the disease was essential. Three ideas formed the basis of her message: Alcoholism is a disease and the alcoholic a sick person. The alcoholic can be helped and is worth helping. Alcoholism is a public health problem and therefore a public responsibility. [6]
Sexual behavior in women under the influence of alcohol is also different from men. Studies have shown that increased BAC is associated with longer orgasmic latencies and decreased intensity of orgasm. [16] Some women report a greater sexual arousal with increased alcohol consumption as well as increased sensations of pleasure during orgasm ...
A study just published in the journal Alcohol: Clinical & Experimental Research found that teens and young adults are increasingly choosing to avoid alcohol. Conversely, more adults are binge ...
Since the consumption of alcohol is necessary to develop alcoholism, the availability of and attitudes towards alcohol in an individual's environment affect their likelihood of developing the disease. Current evidence indicates that in both men and women, alcoholism is 50–60% genetically determined, leaving 40-50% for environmental influences ...
Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood is a memoir written in 2005 by American writer Koren Zailckas and published by Viking Press. The book has spent more than 10 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list. About Smashed chronicles Zailckas' decade-long struggle with alcohol abuse, beginning at fourteen, in an effort to explain the binge drinking phenomenon that plagues America's youth ...
Why some parents let their teens drink alcohol at home. (Getty Images) (Ippei Naoi via Getty Images) In the United States, the national legal drinking age is 21 years old and has been so since 1984.
Since alcohol is absorbed into body water content, and men have more water in their bodies than women, for women there will be a higher blood alcohol concentration from the same amount of alcohol consumption. [22] Women are also thought to have less alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) enzyme which is required to break down alcohol. [8]