{"title":"Alcohol and Its Biomarkers: Clinical Aspects and Laboratory Determination","authors":"G. Reisfield","doi":"10.1309/LMD9PAMUNKPA7DVN","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Written by Amitava Dasgupta 300 pages. San Diego, Elsevier, 2015. $99.95. ISBN: 9780128003398.\n\n\n\nAlcohol is one of the most widely used and abused drugs in the United States and the world. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 134 million Americans—more than half of the adult population— report being current drinkers, with nearly 18 million, or approximately 1 in every 12 adults, meeting the criteria for an alcohol use disorder.1 Nearly 90,000 alcohol-attributable deaths occur annually in the United States, making excessive alcohol use the fourth leading preventable cause of death.2 The annual economic costs of alcohol consumption were $223.5 billion in 2006, the last year for which there were comprehensive national estimates.3 As a result, Alcohol and Its …","PeriodicalId":54328,"journal":{"name":"Labmedicine","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2015-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"13","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Labmedicine","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1309/LMD9PAMUNKPA7DVN","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Written by Amitava Dasgupta 300 pages. San Diego, Elsevier, 2015. $99.95. ISBN: 9780128003398.
Alcohol is one of the most widely used and abused drugs in the United States and the world. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 134 million Americans—more than half of the adult population— report being current drinkers, with nearly 18 million, or approximately 1 in every 12 adults, meeting the criteria for an alcohol use disorder.1 Nearly 90,000 alcohol-attributable deaths occur annually in the United States, making excessive alcohol use the fourth leading preventable cause of death.2 The annual economic costs of alcohol consumption were $223.5 billion in 2006, the last year for which there were comprehensive national estimates.3 As a result, Alcohol and Its …
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Lab Medicine is a peer-reviewed biomedical journal published quarterly by the ASCP and Oxford University Press. The journal invites submission of manuscripts on topics related to clinical chemistry and microbiology, hematology, immunology, transfusion medicine, molecular diagnostics, cytology, histology, and laboratory administration and management. Original research, reviews, and case reports are considered for publication. Lab Medicine is indexed (under the title Laboratory Medicine) by the National Library of Medicine and is included in the PubMed database.
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