Do tolerance to alcohol and propensity to alcoholism covary?
The seminal study is the 1994 Schuckett et al. article http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/151/2/184 Low level of response to alcohol as a predictor of future alcoholism MA Schuckit Department of Psychiatry, San Diego VA Medical Center, CA 92161. OBJECTIVE: As part of a search for measurable attributes of an individual that might be related to the risk of alcoholism, the author’s group previously compared 227 sons of alcoholics and 227 matched comparison subjects at the age of about 20 years. Forty percent of the men at high risk for alcoholism and less than 10% of the comparison subjects demonstrated a low intensity of response to alcohol challenge. This article reports the results of the follow-up of the first half of this study group almost a decade later. METHOD: Of the men who had been tested at about age 20, 223 were about age 30 at this evaluation, which included personal
The seminal study is the 1994 Schuckett et al. article http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/151/2/184 Low level of response to alcohol as a predictor of future alcoholism MA Schuckit Department of Psychiatry, San Diego VA Medical Center, CA 92161. OBJECTIVE: As part of a search for measurable attributes of an individual that might be related to the risk of alcoholism, the author’s group previously compared 227 sons of alcoholics and 227 matched comparison subjects at the age of about 20 years. Forty percent of the men at high risk for alcoholism and less than 10% of the comparison subjects demonstrated a low intensity of response to alcohol challenge. This article reports the results of the follow-up of the first half of this study group almost a decade later. METHOD: Of the men who had been tested at about age 20, 223 were about age 30 at this evaluation, which included personal
