This «double whammy» of
alcohol effects predicted those who progressed to more severe drinking and alcohol - use disorders over two years of follow - up, researchers discovered.
Not exact matches
Searching for how those initially measured
alcohol responses might
predict which group the participants fell into, King and her team found that those in the high
alcohol addiction symptom group reported far higher stimulation and pleasure from
alcohol effects than members of the low or intermediate groups.
«We hope this tool, which displays zonation of carbohydrate and nitrogen metabolism, in addition to drug detoxification and
alcohol degradation, will improve our ability to understand and
predict the
effects of toxins and new drugs on the liver.»
Combining
alcohol with another drug and they are likely to produce a synergistic
effect which no one can
predict.
That is, internalizing symptoms decrease the probability of
alcohol use, and the timing of this protective
effect depends on the co-occurrence of externalizing symptoms, but this is not true for
predicting amounts of use for users (frequency of marijuana or quantity x frequency of
alcohol use).