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Detection of Alcohol and Tobacco Addiction

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Alcohol consumption can be detected by the measurement of ethanol concentration in blood or urine. Several markers have been proposed with different sensitivities to detect alcohol consumption. Ethyl glucuronide and ethyl sulphate in urine, phosphatidylethanol in blood and ethyl glucuronide in hair are new methods, besides carbohydrate-deficient transferrin measurements. We use these markers for the assessment of different intake patterns. Short-term assessment using alcohol breath analysis or alcohol in blood or urine is different to mid-term analysis (some days), like ethyl glucuronide, and to long-term assessment (14 days) with carbohydrate-deficient transferrin.

For the assessment of even longer periods, the hair analysis of ethyl glucuronide can be used.

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  1. Clinical Division of Social Psychiatry, Medical University Vienna, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Vienna, Austria

    Otto-Michael Lesch & Henriette Walter

  2. Caritas der Erzdiözese Wien, Vienna, Austria

    Christian Wetschka

  3. Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT, USA

    Michie N. Hesselbrock & Victor Hesselbrock

  4. Neuroscience Department, Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisboa, Portugal

    Samuel Pombo

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Lesch, OM., Walter, H., Wetschka, C., Hesselbrock, M.N., Hesselbrock, V., Pombo, S. (2020). Detection of Alcohol and Tobacco Addiction. In: Alcohol and Tobacco. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41941-7_8

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