Amitava Dasgupta

The Science of Drinking

How Alcohol Affects Your Body and Mind

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Produktbeschreibung

What happens when you drink your favorite cocktail? How does it go from beverage to buzz? Or from buzz to blotto? Here, Dr. Amitava Dasgupta, a practicing toxicologist and researcher in the field of alcohol and drugs, provides answers for everything you ever wanted to know about drinking, from what creates the high to how to tell when you've had too much.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 162mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781442204096
• ISBN-10: 1442204095
• Artikelnr.: 32019746

Autorenporträt

By Amitava Dasgupta

Inhaltsangabe

1 Chapter 1. Alcohol Use and Abuse: Past and Present 2 Chapter 2. How does
the body handle alcohol? A Guide to Drinking Sensibly and Avoiding DWI. 3
Chapter 3. How Alcohol Affects the Human Mind 4 Chapter 4. Can Alcohol
Prevent Heart Disease and Other Illnesses? 5 Chapter 5. Genetic Makeup and
Alcohol Addiction: Harmful Effects of Alcohol 6 Chapter 6. Markers of
Alcohol Abuse in Blood 7 Chapter 7. Loopholes of Alcohol Testing: Breath
Analyzer vs Blood Alcohol and DWI 8 Chapter 8. Pharmaceuticals, Drugs of
Abuse and Alcohol: A Potential Deadly Mix 9 Chapter 9. Workplace Alcohol
and Drug Testing: When not to drink at all 10 Chapter 10. Why not to drink
at all when you are pregnant 11 Chapter 11. Dangers of Moonshine Whiskey
and Related Liquors 12 Chapter 12. More Dangerous than Alcohol: Methanol
and Antifreeze