Alcoholism and Women

Epidemiology.- Overview.- Vulnerability to Alcoholism in Women.- Drinking and Problem Drinking in US Women.- Older Women and Alcohol.- Violent Victimization among Women with Alcohol Problems.- Women, Alcohol, and Driving.- Employed Women with Alcohol Problems Who Seek Help from Employee Assistance Programs.- Physiology.- Overview.- Gender Differences in Alcohol Metabolism.- Mental and Physical Health Consequences of Alcohol Use in Women.- Alcohol Effects on Hormone Levels in Normal Postmenopausal Women and in Postmenopausal Women with Alcohol-Induced Cirrhosis.- Gender Differences in Animal Studies.- Sex Distinctiveness in Effective Genotype.- Sex Differences in Ethanol-Related Behaviors in Genetically Defined Murine Stocks.- Sex Differences in Mesolimbic Dopamine Responses to Ethanol and Relationship to Ethanol Intake in Rats.- Anxiolytic Effects of Steroid Hormones during the Estrous Cycle.- Behavior and Treatment Issues.- Overview.- Women, Alcohol, and Sexuality.- Cognitive Psychosocial Performance and Recovery in Female Alcoholics.- The Emergence of Problem-Drinking Women as a Special Population in Need of Treatment.- Social and Cultural Issues.- Overview.- Race/Ethnicity and Other Sociocultural Influences on Alcoholism Treatment for Women.- Patterns of Alcohol Use among Ethnic Minority Adolescent Women.- Alcoholism in the Family.- Gender Differences for the Risk of Alcohol-Related Problems in Multiple National Contexts.