ABC of Alcohol

Anne McCune, Consultant Hepatologist, Department of Hepatology, Bristol Royal Infirmary, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, UK

Contributors vii

Preface ix

1 Alcohol use: Consumption and costs 1
Peter McGovern and Eric Appleby

2 Alcohol use: Society and politics 7
Peter McGovern and Eric Appleby

3 Alcohol in the body 12
Alex Paton and Anne McCune

4 Definitions 15
Alex Paton

5 The nature of alcohol use disorders 19
John B. Saunders

6 The detection of alcohol use disorders 25
John B. Saunders

7 Medical problems 33
Alex Paton

8 Problems in the Emergency Department – and their solutions 37
Zulfiquar Mirza and Robin Touquet

9 Alcohol and the young person 42
William Christian, Sian Veysey and Anne Frampton

10 Alcohol and the older person 46
Jarrod Richards and Rachel Bradley

11 Alcohol and the liver 50
Anne McCune

12 Surgical problems 56
James S. Huntley

13 Alcohol, maxillofacial trauma and prevention of personal violence 61
Jonathan Shepherd and Paul Jordan

14 Neurological and neurosurgical complications of alcohol 64
Jane Alty and Jeremy Cosgrove

15 Alcohol and cancer 69
Sarah L. Williams

16 Alcohol and the heart 74
Nitin Kumar, Yasmin Ismail and Julian Strange

17 Drug–alcohol interactions 79
Dan Harris

18 Management of acute unplanned alcohol withdrawal 84
Adrian Brown and Anne McCune

19 The role of alcohol care teams in district general hospitals 89
Kieran J. Moriarty

20 Management in primary care 95
Carsten Grimm

21 Advice and counselling 99
Nicola Taylor

22 Psychological treatment and relapse prevention 102
Nicola Taylor

23 Alcohol and psychiatry 105
Nicola Taylor

24 Other resources, and alcohol and the doctor 109
Nicola Taylor

Index 000