Committee on Problems of Alcohol A Report of Its Activities From 1949 to 1955, the Research Work It Has Supported and the Place of This Work in the Field of Alcoholism (1956) / Chapter Skim
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I. INTRODUCTION
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In various cultural settings, of course, alcohol is used to varying extents and for differing purposes. The wild and violent drunkenness of the plains Indian in the early days of the fur trade and the heavily ritualized and quite modest alcohol consumption of the orthodox Jew illustrate well the variations existing in the use of alcohol from one social group to another.
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both because chronic alcoholics often show evidences of vitamin deficiencies and because certain animal experiments have indicated that rats deprived of certain vitamins may voluntarily increase their alcohol intake, (28, 48) Adrenal hormones and adrenocortiootrophic hormones have been used because some alcoholics show evidence of mild to moderate adrenal insufficiency.
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There have been attempts to differentiate alcoholics as a group from normal individuals as a group by means of various psychological tests, and there have been attempts to define "the alcoholic personality". Because of the considerable variability in personality and behavior found in any large series of chronic alcoholics such attempts have met with little success.
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Our knowledge of the effects of alcohol consumption on salt and water balance in the body, on the secretions of the endocrine glands, and on the functioning of the central nervous system contains equally large loopholes. From the time of its organization within the National Research Council, the Committee on Problems of Alcohol has been acutely aware of these defects in our knowledge of the metabolic, physiological, and pharmacological effects of alcohol, and has felt that knowledge in these areas must be expanded and solidified before possible metabolic or physiologic factors in the etiology of chronic alcoholism can begin to be explored.
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