Why People Drink; How People Change: A Guide to Alcohol and People's Motivation for Drinking It
Intro -- Preface -- References -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Alcohol Use and Abuse in Everyday Life: The Centrality of Motivation -- What Is Alcohol? -- Why People Say They Drink -- Motives for Drinking -- What Science Reveals -- Some People Drink Too Much -- How Much Is Too Much? -- Governmental Guidelines -- Legal Drinking Age -- Evaluating One's Own Drinking -- Formal Diagnoses: Alcohol Use Disorder, Alcohol Dependence, and Harmful Alcohol Use -- Theories of Alcohol Addiction -- References -- Chapter 2: How People Decide What They Want, Including Having a Drink of Alcohol -- How Brains Evolved to Pursue Goals -- The Nature of Goals -- The Wide-Ranging Effects of Goals -- Drinking Alcohol as a Goal -- Heavy Alcohol Consumption: Merely a Choice or a Disease? -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: Alcohol and Its Effects on the Body -- Absorption -- Distribution -- Alcohol in the Brain -- Neurotransmitters -- Alcohol-Induced Blackout -- Hangover -- Alcohol Withdrawal -- Chronic Effects of Excessive Drinking -- Liver Disease -- Cardiovascular Disease -- Brain Damage -- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome -- The Burden of Disease Attributable to Alcohol -- How the Brain Supports People's Motivation to Drink -- References -- Chapter 4: Genetics of Alcoholism -- Family Studies -- Adoption Studies -- Twin Studies -- What Is Inherited? -- Stress-Response Dampening -- Aversive Reactions to Alcohol -- Low Sensitivity to Alcohol -- Differentiator Model -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5: Personality and Alcohol Use -- Important Constituents of Personality: Goals, Values, and Emotions -- Alcohol and Emotions -- Addiction: Permanent Disease or Manageable Condition? -- Personality Differences and Consuming Alcohol Excessively -- Depression, Rumination, and Alcohol Use -- Depression, Protective Behavioral Strategies, and Alcohol Use.