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Alcohol consumption, harms and policy developments in sub-Saharan Africa: The case for stronger national and regional responses.

Drug and Alcohol Review, 2021
ISSUES Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has long been characterised as a region with weak alcohol policies, high proportions of abstainers and heavy episodic drinkers (among drinkers), and as a target for market expansion by global alcohol producers.
N. Morojele   +3 more
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Alcohol Metabolism

Where Does All That Food Go?, 2020
Research shows that alcohol misuse and alcohol-related problems are influenced by individual variations in alcohol metabolism, or the way in which alcohol is broken down and eliminated by the body.
Alicia J. Kowaltowski, F. Abdulkader
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Alcohol and Alcoholism

1978
Alcohol exerts a series of different effects, especially when ingested chronically, and alcoholism is a rather complex, heterogeneous disease. Genetic factors may be implicated on various levels such as metabolism, acute effects, tolerance, dependence, and medical complications. This presentation will be arranged in three parts: (1) The main results of
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Alcoholic children of alcoholics.

Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 1981
of the fathers and 8.0% of the mothers of female alcoholic probands. When estimated rates of alcoholism in a general population have been compared with those in the families of alcoholics (4-7), men alcoholics have been found to be 2.2 times as likely as men in the general population to have an alcoholic father and 1.6 times as likely to have an ...
T McKenna, R Pickens
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Drinking to regulate positive and negative emotions: a motivational model of alcohol use.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1995
The present study proposed and tested a motivational model of alcohol use in which people are hypothesized to use alcohol to regulate both positive and negative emotions.
M. Cooper   +3 more
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Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Cancer

Medical Clinics of North America, 1984
Certain types of cancer are clearly associated with alcohol abuse, although the role of ethanol in carcinogenesis--as a carcinogen, co-carcinogen, promoter, or "innocent bystander"--is not known with certainty. The impact of alcohol abuse on the management of the patient with cancer is also discussed.
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Alcohol myopia. Its prized and dangerous effects.

American Psychologist, 1990
This article explains how alcohol makes social responses more extreme, enhances important self-evaluations, and relieves anxiety and depression, effects that underlie both the social destructiveness of alcohol and the reinforcing effects that make it an ...
C. Steele, R. Josephs
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Alcohol and Alcoholism

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1970
Bela Schick once observed that after 20 years scientists are no longer quoted in the medical literature. "Every 20 years sees a republication of the same ideas." If the generation gap in scientific communication is unfortunate, so, too, is the geographical gap—ie, the poor flow of information from country to country.
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Lifetime co-occurrence of DSM-III-R alcohol abuse and dependence with other psychiatric disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey.

Archives of General Psychiatry, 1997
OBJECTIVE To study patterns of co-occurrence of lifetime DSM-III-R alcohol disorders in a household sample. METHODS Data came from the National Comorbidity Survey (NCS), a nationally representative household survey.
Ronald C. Kessler   +5 more
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Alcoholism as Blaming the Alcoholic

International Journal of the Addictions, 1976
Theories of alcoholism tend to blame the alcoholic by implying that most American drinkers have an ability, which the alcoholic lacks, to drink without problems. The presence or absence of this ability or capacity presumably accounts for the incidence of alcohol problems in society.
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