Summary Longitudinal studies of drinking are now of great importance. Two concepts need to be distinguished. Career is the evolution of the individual's role, while Natural History pertains to the sequential development in tissue or body‐system reactivity to alcohol. The richness of ideas and research opportunities relating seperately to each of these dimensions is discussed, and also the need for synthesis.
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