Dying for a Drink: Rethinking Your Relationship With Alcohol - Brossura

Cantopher, Tim

 
9781847094476: Dying for a Drink: Rethinking Your Relationship With Alcohol
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ISBN 10: 1847094473 ISBN 13: 9781847094476
Casa editrice: Sheldon Pr, 2016

Sinossi

Alcohol causes more misery, illness and death than any other substance. Alcohol is one of the three biggest lifestyle risk factors for disease and death after smoking and obesity, and a causal factor in more than 60 medical conditions, including various cancers, cirrhosis depression. In the UK in 2012-13, there were 1,008,850 hospital admissions related to alcohol consumption. Dying for a Drink is a no-nonsense, lively and accessible guide to alcohol and alcoholism, by bestselling consultant psychiatrist Dr Tim Cantopher. This new edition updates the recommended units of alcohol, and tracks the rise in alcohol-related conditions - in particular liver disease, now the fifth most common cause of death in the UK.


Topics include:

· Alcohol the drug
· Why people drink too much
· The effects of past experience, family and personality
· Impact of alcohol abuse on the body and brain
· Cutting down on or doing without drink
· Sleep and relaxation
· Problem-solving, time-management, and dealing with worry
· Drug treatments
· The disease concept and Alcoholics Anonymous

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L'autore

Dr Tim Cantopher studied at University College, London, and University College Hospital. He trained as a psychiatrist at St James' Hospital, Portsmouth, and St George's Hospital Medical School. He has been a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists since 1983 and was elected fellow of the college in 1999. Before his retirement, Dr Cantopher worked as a consultant psychiatrist with the Priory Group of Hospitals for many years, and he has published a number of research projects across the field of psychiatry. He is the author of the best-selling Depressive Illness; The Curse of the Strong, Stress-related Illness and Beating Insomnia.

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Editore
Sheldon Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2016
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1847094473
ISBN 13 
9781847094476
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
2
Numero di pagine
128
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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