The Ideal Age of Consuming Alcohol

Abstract

Morbidity and death from alcohol-related disorders impose a large price on society worldwide. Researchers in the area of addiction are based on studying the processes by which alcohol-related conditions evolve and advance in order to reduce the financial strain on society and increase the quality of life for people suffering from the ill effects of alcohol dependence. As the amount of substance addiction testing that can be conducted in humans is constrained by legal considerations and intrinsic challenges, most is performed in laboratory animals.This paper reviews the different substance addiction laboratory models that are currently available that are used to research the processes by which alcohol abuse causes organ injury and immune defects. Any of the models' strengths and shortcomings was discussed.The presentations made at the symposium "Methods of Ethanol Application in Alcohol Model-How Long Is Long Enough" at the joint 2008 Research Society on Alcoholism (RSA) and the International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ISBRA) conference, Washington, DC, are incorporated into the study, emphasizing the importance not just of selecting the most suitable laboratory alcohol, but also of selecting the most acceptable laboratory alcohol.