Alcohol and Stress name" general adaptation syndrome" to the Sequence of changes (Selye
1946), The negative role Selye assigned to adrenocortical hormones seems exaggerated …

Sober alcoholics show an attenuated hormonal response to pharmacological agents that
normally stimulate the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPAC) axis. To determine if …

OUR laboratory and clinical studies of alcoholics during the past several years have
convinced us that alcoholism is a metabolic disease. Although alcoholism manifests itself …

Method.......................... 36 Results......................... A3 Discussion...................... 52
Footnotes....................... 73 Reference Notes................. 75 References................... 76 …

SELYE (1956) DEFINED stress as the nonspecific response of the body to any demand
made on it. Included in these demands were the normal physiological responses one would …

Stress has long been suggested to be an important correlate of uncontrolled drinking and
relapse. An important hormonal response system to stress--the hypothalamic-pituitary …

ABSTRACT A number ofstudies have indicated that both genetic and environmental factors
play significant roles in determining alcohol consumption. Stress is one environmental factor …

Objective: This study examines the stress-response-dampening (SRD) hypothesis of
alcoholism from a novel vantage point. Various investigators have demonstrated that …

The concept of stress‐relief by alcohol has led to many investigations in order to elucidate
the mechanisms of interactions of stress and alcohol, and the stress‐reducing effect of …

This book represents a series of papers from a conference on stress and addiction. Like
many such volumes, its papers are variable in quality and its development of topics neither …