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Thursday, March 15, 2007

Alcohol Use, Abuse, and Dependence

Ting-Kai Li, MD


Supercourse is a global repository of lectures on public health and prevention targeting educators across the world. Supercourse has a network of over 41300 scientists in 171 countries who are sharing for free a library of over 3162 lectures in 26 languages. The concept of the Supercourse and its lecture style has been described as the Global Health Network University and the Hypertext Comic Books.

In November 2006 a lecture entitled "Alcohol Use, Abuse, and Dependence" by Dr. Li was added to the Supercourse, a free, online library of 3000 lectures written by experts such as Nobel Prize winner Leland Hartwell and NIH Director Elias Zerhouni. Dr. Li's lecture includes information about NIAAA and its research priorities, as well an overview of alcohol use around the world and its relationship to health problems, including abuse and addiction. The lecture also includes information about the new Clinician's Guide, as well as updates on current pharmacological and behavioral treatments of alcohol use disorders. The lecture can be downloaded at http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec25521/index.htm
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