Alcohol & the Body
This type of tolerance occurs when the liver becomes more efficient at breaking down alcohol, requiring a person to drink more to feel the same effects.
What is metabolic (or dispositional) tolerance?
Twin and adoption studies show that this factor accounts for about 48% to 58% of a person’s risk of developing alcoholism.
What is heredity (or genetic influence)?
This organ is primarily responsible for metabolizing alcohol through the ADH and ALDH pathways, converting ethanol into acetaldehyde and then acetate, and it plays a key role in determining blood alcohol concentration, toxicity risk, and long-term organ damage.
What is the Liver?
According to research, 85% to 95% of individuals in alcohol withdrawal experience symptoms that fall into this category.
What is non–life-threatening (or mild-to-moderate) withdrawal?
This researcher developed influential early classifications of alcoholics, including categories like gamma and delta types.
Who is E. M. Jellinek?