Alcohol Abuse

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determine or influence the use of alcohol from generation
to generation. However, these studies have shown no hard evidence for an
association between alcoholism and inherited factors.
The learning and social model proposes that alcoholism is a process
that is slowly developed within a social situation or atmosphere. This model of
alcoholism has also been researched by using both human and animal subjects. A
conditioning model of alcohol tolerance has demonstrated that specific cues from
the environment such as odor, sight, and taste, produce a stimulus that results
in alcohol consumption. If ethanol, the addictive ingredient in alcohol , is
not supplied, a psychological compensatory response called a craving is produced.
The psychodynamic model of alcoholism proposes that problematic child
rearing practices produce psychosexual maldevelopment and dependence/independece
conflicts. It is believed that while habitual alcohol use is in process, the
habitual drinker may use ...

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