Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-287) and index.
Contents
From stigma to solutions -- Alcoholism: a legacy of pain for alcoholics, families, and society -- Self-help approaches to treatment: alcoholics anonymous -- Biopsychic approaches to treatment: frustration and progress -- The neuron: a primer of brain function -- Science and the disease concept -- The biochemistry of alcoholism: early clues -- The opiate connection -- Poppies of the brain -- Malfunction of the reward messengers -- Toward a craving model -- The reward cascade -- Alcogenes -- The addictive brain: hope for a cure.