Alcohol and Tobacco

1. Information on the origination of the book.- 2. Addiction- a widespread disease.- 3. Aetiology of Addiction.- 4. Prevention strategies.- 5. Diagnosis of abuse and addiction.- 6. Types, dimensions and aetiology.- 7. Motives for alcohol and/or tobacco addicted patients to seek medical help.- 8. The diagnosis of alcohol and tobacco addiction.- 9. Therapeutic strategies for alcohol and tobacco dependence.- 10. Sociotherapy of alcohol and tobacco dependents with regards to Lesch's typology.- Appendixes

Otto Michael Lesch, MD, Specialist in psychiatry and neurology, the author is currently President of the Austrian Society of Addiction Medicine, . Since 1972 he is responsible for long term studies in alcohol dependence. He organized many international clinical trials and basic research in alcohol and tobacco dependence. He served 12 years as secretary of ESBRA and organized European networks for alcohol research. He always bridged the gap between basic and clinical research and developed clinical used tools to define subgroups of addiction for better treatment approaches. His assessment tools are now available in many different languages (www.LAT-online.at).

Henriette Walter, MD, has served as University Professor  at the Medical University, Vienna. Dr. Walter is specialized in alcoholism since more than 20 years, both, practically and scientifically, with over 200 publications. She is secretary of the 'AUSAM', the Austrian Society of Addiction Medicine and an ESBRA board member. She is associate editor of the Journal "Hypnose", a field in which she takes an active scientific interest since 1982. She gives regular training courses in medical hypnosis.

Christian Wetschka, PhD, is social pedagogue, working in diverse social therapeutic and pastoral fields, supervisor, founder of Verein Struktur, Vienna, which provides commune-flats for alcohol dependent persons.Michie N. Hesselbrock, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at the School of Social Work, and Professor of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine, University of Connecticut. She held the Zach's Chair, and was the founder and director of the PhD program at the School of Social Work before her retirement. She has served on several NIH study sections and VA Merit review committees as a regular member and as an ad hoc reviewer. Her research interests include epidemiology, behavior genetics, and health disparities of alcoholism and treatment.

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