Blood ethanol concentrations in patients attending special clinics in Glasgow

Abstract

The association between alcohol consumption and the acquisition of sexually-transmitted diseases is well documented. In Glasgow, it was found that over 90 per cent. of casual consorts who infected men with gonorrhoea were met within or outside bars or public houses (Wells and Schofield, 1970). Locally, as with the rest of Scotland, alcoholism is seen as a serious and increasingly disturbing problem (Macrae, Ratcliff, and Liddle, 1972), although no reliable statistics are yet available as to the drinking habits in different sectors of the community (Martin, 1973). In this paper, we report on the incidence and concentrations of ethanol in the blood of patients attending the Special Clinics in Glasgow.