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Gender Differences in the Epidemiology of Alcohol Use and Related Harms in the United States

open access: yesAlcohol research : current reviews, 2020
Over the past century, differences in alcohol use and related harms between males and females in the United States have diminished considerably. In general, males still consume more alcohol and experience and cause more alcohol-related injuries and ...
Aaron White
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Adverse childhood events and risk of diabetes onset in the 1979 National longitudinal survey of youth cohort

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2019
Background Type 2 diabetes is a major public health problem with considerable personal and societal costs. Adverse childhood experiences (ACE) are associated with a number of serious and chronic health problems in adulthood, but these experiences have ...
E. Anne Lown   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

COVID-19 and the drug situation in Lithuania

open access: yesJournal of Geography, Politics and Society, 2022
The application of restrictive public health measures because of COVID-19 has affected all areas of life, including drug use, drug market, and the response of law enforcement and health, education, and social care institutions to the drug phenomenon.
Evelina Pridotkienė   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Association studies of up to 1.2 million individuals yield new insights into the genetic etiology of tobacco and alcohol use

open access: yesNature Genetics, 2018
Tobacco and alcohol use are leading causes of mortality that influence risk for many complex diseases and disorders1. They are heritable2,3 and etiologically related4,5 behaviors that have been resistant to gene discovery efforts6–11.
Mengzhen Liu   +165 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

ALCOHOL [PDF]

open access: yesThe Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1875
Alcohol affects brain activity in various ways. It has both short-term and long-term effects. It causes slurred speech, short-term memory dysfunctions hallucinations, etc. by timing the activity of neuronal cells. Moreover, it causes teratogenic effects in the fetus ifthe mother is consuming alcohol during pregnancy. Alcohol can damage the brain cells,
openaire   +2 more sources

Epidemiology of DSM-5 Alcohol Use Disorder: Results From the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions III.

open access: yesJAMA psychiatry, 2015
IMPORTANCE National epidemiologic information from recently collected data on the new DSM-5 classification of alcohol use disorder (AUD) using a reliable, valid, and uniform data source is needed. OBJECTIVE To present nationally representative findings
B. Grant   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Alcohol use in times of the COVID 19: Implications for monitoring and policy

open access: yesDrug and Alcohol Review, 2020
Based on a literature search undertaken to determine the impacts of past public health crises, and a systematic review of the effects of past economic crises on alcohol consumption, two main scenarios—with opposite predictions regarding the impact of the
J. Rehm   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Exploring the use of cannabis as a substitute for prescription drugs in a convenience sample

open access: yesHarm Reduction Journal, 2021
Background The use of cannabis as medicine (CaM) both prescribed and non-prescribed has increased markedly in the last decade, mirrored in a global shift in cannabis policy towards a more permissive stance.
Sinikka L. Kvamme   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Molecular Genetic Influences on Normative and Problematic Alcohol Use in a Population-Based Sample of College Students [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Background: Genetic factors impact alcohol use behaviors and these factors may become increasingly evident during emerging adulthood. Examination of the effects of individual variants as well as aggregate genetic variation can clarify mechanisms ...
Adkins, Amy   +16 more
core   +2 more sources

Impulsive Lifestyle Counselling versus treatment as usual to reduce offending in people with co-occurring antisocial personality disorder and substance use disorder: a post hoc analysis

open access: yesBMC Psychiatry, 2022
Objectives To assess the impact of a short psychoeducation intervention for antisocial personality disorder on offending after randomization to treatment. Design Multicentre, superiority, non-blinded randomized controlled trial.
Morten Hesse   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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