Background: Ten percent of teenagers and young adults with no alcohol diagnosis and a
third of those with alcohol abuse report tolerance to alcohol. However, relatively few data are …

Objective: To improve assessment of the DSM-IV alcohol tolerance criterion in adolescents,
this study tested the performance of a minimum percentage increase in drinking quantity …

Objective: A low level of response (LR) to alcohol characterizes groups at high risk for
alcoholism and predicts future heavier drinking and alcohol-related problems. Because LR …

Using subjective ratings of the degree of alcohol intoxication, the interaction between the
drinking history of the subjects, the alcohol dose, and acute alcohol tolerance were …

Alcohol was administered to young male volunteers with a history of light or moderate
drinking. Subjects with the greatest drinking experience performed significantly better on a …

The developmental course of physiological dependence on alcohol was investigated by
estimating the prevalance, stability, and prognostic significance of individual tolerance and …

Objective: Alcoholism is a complex disorder that demonstrates genetic heterogeneity.
Genetic linkage studies of alcohol dependence also suffer from the probability that many …

Acute tolerance can be defined as a decrease in response to alcohol within a single
exposure to the drug, which occurs independently of changes in blood alcohol …

This paper reivews the literature concerning the phenomenon of tolerance to alcohol. The
experimental evidence of reporting effects of alcohol tolerance on the signs of drunkenness …

Background The theory of behavioral tolerance to alcohol posits that greater experience with
drinking to intoxication leads to less impaired cognitive and psychomotor performance …