Alcohol and Tobacco Medical and Sociological Aspects of Use, Abuse a
Alcohol and nicotine addiction mostly occur together. Over the last ten years therapeutic aspects and motivational strategies have been considerably improved. Hence, groups and subgroups have been defined and can be treated with specific medication and ta
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Alcohol and Tobacco Medical and Sociological Aspects of Use, Abuse and Addiction
Otto Michael Lesch, MD Henriette Walter, MD Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Christian Wetschka, PhD Vienna, Austria
Michie N. Hesselbrock, PhD Victor Hesselbrock, PhD University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT, USA
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Acknowledgements
After more than 30 years working with psychiatric patients especially with addicted patients I thank many friends, experts and researchers. At the beginning of my work in 1972 Berner P., Mader R. and Strotzka H. supported my education and they made it possible to organize in a catchment area a social psychiatric network. In this network a long term treatment (chain: outpatientinpatient-outpatient) could be developed. There it was possible to investigate the long term course of psychiatric, especially of alcohol addicted patients. After 4 years of work the first results could be published. In this ongoing research an international discussion process started. Boening J., Pelc I., Tabakoff B., Platz W. and DeWitte P. have always drawn my attention to the fact, that in addictive processes psychosocial factors have the same importance than biological vulnerabilities. These experts but also a lot of others from many countries helped me to publish the most important results and invited me to many international conferences to discuss our data. My research team produced many new results and I have to thank
them for many interesting hours bringing in new and important research ideas. Especially I would like to thank H. Poltnig, who died much to early, for producing the first LAT-documentation. Henriette Walter helped to produce the first German manuscript, Christian Wetschka brought in his social therapeutic expertise and Michie and Vi
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