UNLABELLED Alcohol accounts for a great amount of deaths per year either due to the acute intoxication or due to the secondary impacts of acute or chronic alcoholism. Commonly, in large amount of such fatal cases blood alcohol concentration is low or absent and fatty liver disease is frequently the only pathological finding detected at the autopsy of alcohol consumer. We offer a short case repo...

Abstract cAlohol affects how people think, feel, and behave, they perceive the physical social world around them. But does alcohol also influence themselves? Past work points to a number of possibilities, suggesting intoxication could lead positive biases, negative or have no effects on self-assessments at all. Here we tested whether alcoholic personality within Big Five framework. We hypothesi...

Alcohol-related intoxications, including methanol, ethylene glycol, diethylene glycol, and propylene glycol, and alcoholic ketoacidosis can present with a high anion gap metabolic acidosis and increased serum osmolal gap, whereas isopropanol intoxication presents with hyperosmolality alone. The effects of these substances, except for isopropanol and possibly alcoholic ketoacidosis, are due to t...

Alcohol-related liver disease is the most common cause of worldwide. The purpose this work establishment influence transcription factor κB on development oxidative-nitrosative stress in rats under conditions chronic alcohol intoxication. experiments were performed 24 male Wistar weighing 180-220 g. animals divided into 4 groups 6 animals: control; animals, which administered NF-κB inhibitor, na...

At least 35,000 persons kill themselves each year in the United States. Many of the victims saw their family doctors during the month before death. Suicide assessment and subsequent intervention may help prevent these deaths. Suicidal behavior is associated with alcoholic intoxication and with feelings of hopelessness. Low brain serotonin is under investigation as a possible etiologic factor.

Proponents of the disease concept of alcoholism have argued that its dissemination among the general public will promote humanitarian attitudes toward alcoholics. This claim was subjected to empirical scrutiny. A quota sample of 200 members of the general public completed a questionnaire designed to measure beliefs about alcoholism and attitudes toward alcoholics. As predicted, the majority of ...