Alcohol and the Addictive Brain: New Hope for Alcoholics from Biogenetic Research

by Kenneth Blum

Book Overview

A new understanding of the nature and progression of alcohol addiction is emerging: alcoholism as the result of an imbalance in the brain's natural production of neurotransmitters critical to our... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0029037018
• ISBN13: 9780029037010
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

At last a methodologically rigorous study of alcoholism

I first acquired this book shortly after it was published in 1991, and I have now been continuously sober for over eleven years. The hypothesis that alcoholism is an empirically identifiable neurochemical imbalance in the brain is still met with strong resistance by drunks, moralists and many therapists. Unfortunately for these sometimes vocal critics, Blum and Payne present compelling laboratory evidence that it is as much a neurological disorder as Parkinson's or epilepsy.