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The Lancet, 2017
Essential facts [Figure: see text] According to recent statistics from NHS Digital, there were an estimated 1.1 million hospital admissions where alcohol was the primary or secondary issue in 2015-16. In the UK, it is estimated that 24% of adults drink in a hazardous or harmful way, while around 9% of men and 4% of women show signs of alcohol ...
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Essential facts [Figure: see text] According to recent statistics from NHS Digital, there were an estimated 1.1 million hospital admissions where alcohol was the primary or secondary issue in 2015-16. In the UK, it is estimated that 24% of adults drink in a hazardous or harmful way, while around 9% of men and 4% of women show signs of alcohol ...
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Understanding Alcohol Use Disorder
Nursing Clinics of North America, 2023Alcohol consumption has been a significant influence on varying social cultures for thousands of years. From its use in medicinal settings, social environments, industry, and more, alcohol has rooted itself deeply into society despite drastic attempts to curtail its popularity. As we continue to move forward in the advancements of science and medicine,
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Overview of Alcohol Use Disorder
American Journal of Psychiatry, 2023Alcohol is regularly consumed throughout most of the world, including by nearly half the U.S. population age 12 or older. Heavy drinking, which is also common, contributes to multiple adverse medical, psychiatric, and social outcomes and more than 140,000 deaths annually in the United States.
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Alcohol Use Disorders in Geriatrics
The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 2010Alcohol use disorders cause significant morbidity and mortality in the geriatric population. This review article begins with a hypothetical case for illustration, asking what the primary care physician could do for a geriatric patient with alcohol abuse over a course of four office visits.
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The Lancet, 2009
Alcohol dependence and alcohol abuse or harmful use cause substantial morbidity and mortality. Alcohol-use disorders are associated with depressive episodes, severe anxiety, insomnia, suicide, and abuse of other drugs. Continued heavy alcohol use also shortens the onset of heart disease, stroke, cancers, and liver cirrhosis, by affecting the ...
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Alcohol dependence and alcohol abuse or harmful use cause substantial morbidity and mortality. Alcohol-use disorders are associated with depressive episodes, severe anxiety, insomnia, suicide, and abuse of other drugs. Continued heavy alcohol use also shortens the onset of heart disease, stroke, cancers, and liver cirrhosis, by affecting the ...
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Alcohol Use and Alcohol Use Disorders
2016Citation: Patel, V., D. Chisholm., T. Dua, R. Laxminarayan, and M. E. Medina-Mora, editors. 2015. Mental, Neurological, and Substance Use Disorders. Disease Control Priorities, third edition, volume 4. Washington, DC: World Bank. doi:10.1596/978-1-4648-0426-7.
Mora, ME Medina +6 more
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Alcohol Use and Alcohol Use Disorders
2012AbstractHeavy alcohol use in the general population, especially among late adolescents and young adults, is highly prevalent and associated with a range of adverse health outcomes, such as unintentional injury and sexually transmitted infections, as well as fetal injury in pregnant women. Although heavy consumption tends to decrease as individuals age,
Kenneth J. Sher +3 more
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Alcohol Use and Alcohol Use Disorders
2010Abstract Alcohol use disorders (AUDs), alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence, are among the most prevalent mental disorders in the United States and elsewhere. Controversy exists with respect to the optimal way of classifying these disorders and the boundaries between normal and abnormal drinking.
Kenneth J. Sher +2 more
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Alcohol and Alcohol Use Disorder
2019Alcohol use is common among active duty service members and veterans for a variety of reasons, including institutional culture, military-specific risk factors, and co-occurring mental health disorders such as PTSD. Despite the US military historically tolerating, if not encouraging, alcohol use, in more recent years it has increasingly recognized the ...
Thomas W. Meeks +4 more
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Treatment of alcohol-use disorders
The Lancet, 2009In the treatment of alcohol dependence, Marc Schuckit (Feb 7, p 492) omits baclofen. This is most regrettable for two reasons. First, Schuckit’s proposed treatment excludes patients with liver cirrhosis from receiving any anticraving medication. Alcohol intake in patients with cirrhosis is associated with high mortality.
Caputo, Fabio +2 more
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