Responsible Drinking for Women (Harvard Medical School Guides)

Many women drink responsibly—but some have a more troubled relationship with alcohol. Studies regarding the effects of alcohol on women’s health are contradictory—and it’s not easy for concerned women to get a clear picture of the perils and positives of drinking.

Alcohol affects women differently than men, and sometimes more severely. This ebook, written by Harvard professor and researcher Dr. Debi A. LaPlante, combines in-depth guidance and information from the latest studies about the effects of alcohol on women’s physiology with compassionate, detailed advice on exploring your own relationship with alcohol and how to quit or scale back drinking. This book is essential reading for any woman who wonders whether her drinking might be a problem.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Debi A. LaPlante, Ph.D., is the Director of Academic Affairs at the Division on Addiction at the Cambridge Health Alliance as well as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is also senior editor of the online review The BASIS, publishing weekly reviews of the most recent academic research focused on addiction issues, including alcoholism. She has served as an expert consultant to Family Health Productions, Inc., in developing a video toolkit for alcoholism prevention in teens.

Dr. LaPlante’s extensive research into the intersection between women’s health and alcoholism has been groundbreaking in demonstrating the psychological and physiological complexities of addiction in women. Her work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed academic journals.