Predicting alcoholism service needs from a National Treatment Utilization Survey.

Even when the prevalence of alcohol abuse and alcoholism allows for resource allocation based on differential problem size, further planning methods are necessary in order to determine what specific types of services should be developed to meet the estimated need. Using population-based variables (e.g.

Predicting alcoholism manpower needs.

In response to the needs both to develop new, nonduplicative alcoholism services and to contain cost, and in order to plan for the labor-intensive alcoholism treatment system, planning techniques are needed to assist in the rational planning for and allocation of manpower. Using data from the 1980 National Drug and Alcoholism Treatment Utilization Survey, it is possible to analyze the staffing patterns of various modalities of alcoholism treatment. Two regression equations were developed to identify key variables for predicting manpower needs in various facilities.

Behavioral effects of aluminum ingestion on animal and human subjects.

Abnormally high brain aluminum concentrations have been detected in hemodialysis patients who died of an unexplained encephalopathy. As a result, this study was undertaken to examine whether the ingestion of aluminum produces behavioral aberrations in non-dialysed human subjects and rats with ostensibly normal renal function. Rats were fed AlCl3 by intubation in varying doses, and tests measuring learning ability, visual temporal acuity, motor coordination and activity were administered.