title: Psychiatric aspects of alcohol misuse.
abstract: Alcohol and psychiatric disorder have a complicated relationship. Certain important psychiatric syndromes arise from the toxic effects of alcohol and thiamine deficiency. Liver disease and hypoglycaemia are also associated with their own psychiatric syndromes. Many psychiatric patients also turn to alcohol as an easily available 'medication'.
authors.affiliation: East Kent Community Alcohol Team, St Martin's Hospital, Canterbury.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Dunn
authors.forename: C C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Cook
mesh_terms: D000425:Alcohol Amnestic Disorder / Q000209:etiology; D000430:Alcohol Withdrawal Delirium / Q000209:etiology; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D002492:Central Nervous System Depressants / Q000506:poisoning*; D017831:Diagnosis, Dual (Psychiatry); D000431:Ethanol / Q000506:poisoning*; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D011604:Psychoses, Alcoholic / Q000209:etiology; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D013405:Suicide / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013832:Thiamine Deficiency / Q000150:complications
chemical_list: D002492:Central Nervous System Depressants; D000431:Ethanol