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2017
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a risk factor for more than 60 diseases and types of injuries, and result in approximately 2.5 million deaths per year worldwide. Public health problems caused by harmful use of alcohol represent a substantial health, social, and economic burden.
George A. Kenna, Lorenzo Leggio
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Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a risk factor for more than 60 diseases and types of injuries, and result in approximately 2.5 million deaths per year worldwide. Public health problems caused by harmful use of alcohol represent a substantial health, social, and economic burden.
George A. Kenna, Lorenzo Leggio
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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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2019
Alcohol is a psychoactive substance consumed worldwide and directly responsible or at least contributing to the development of diseases such as alcohol use disorder (AUD), cirrhosis, fetal alcohol syndrome, cancer, and cardiovascular diseases. The past decades of research have revealed brain structural and functional abnormalities associated with mild ...
Sara Buck Doude, Jessica J. Sparks
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Alcohol is a psychoactive substance consumed worldwide and directly responsible or at least contributing to the development of diseases such as alcohol use disorder (AUD), cirrhosis, fetal alcohol syndrome, cancer, and cardiovascular diseases. The past decades of research have revealed brain structural and functional abnormalities associated with mild ...
Sara Buck Doude, Jessica J. Sparks
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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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2018
Alcohol use disorder involves use of alcohol in quantities sufficient to produce intoxication over long periods and use continuing despite significant alcohol-related problems, resulting in a cluster of cognitive, behavioral, and physiological symptoms.
Carol S. North, Sean H. Yutzy
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Alcohol use disorder involves use of alcohol in quantities sufficient to produce intoxication over long periods and use continuing despite significant alcohol-related problems, resulting in a cluster of cognitive, behavioral, and physiological symptoms.
Carol S. North, Sean H. Yutzy
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2013
Alcohol use disorders are highly prevalent and confer significant costs (both financial and social) on society. This chapter begins by defining alcohol use disorders and outlining the associated consequences. These include accidents and injury, health risks, psychological effects, and financial costs. Numerous theories have been proposed to explain the
Sumantri Oei, T.P., Hasking, Penelope
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Alcohol use disorders are highly prevalent and confer significant costs (both financial and social) on society. This chapter begins by defining alcohol use disorders and outlining the associated consequences. These include accidents and injury, health risks, psychological effects, and financial costs. Numerous theories have been proposed to explain the
Sumantri Oei, T.P., Hasking, Penelope
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Medicine, 2012
Alcohol causes end-organ damage in drinkers, and alcohol dependence is associated with poor self-care, complicating chronic disease management. A drinking history and index of suspicion for alcohol misuse is part of comprehensive medical assessment. Identification of hazardous and harmful drinking, and provision of brief advice and/or referral, should ...
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Alcohol causes end-organ damage in drinkers, and alcohol dependence is associated with poor self-care, complicating chronic disease management. A drinking history and index of suspicion for alcohol misuse is part of comprehensive medical assessment. Identification of hazardous and harmful drinking, and provision of brief advice and/or referral, should ...
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2018
Chapters in this volume reflect, to one degree or another, eight critical aspects of contemporary research attempting to understand the etiologic processes that heighten risk or resilience factors for substance use disorders: (1) a focus on systemic frameworks for understanding developmental process, (2) the heterogeneity of developmental pathways, (3)
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Chapters in this volume reflect, to one degree or another, eight critical aspects of contemporary research attempting to understand the etiologic processes that heighten risk or resilience factors for substance use disorders: (1) a focus on systemic frameworks for understanding developmental process, (2) the heterogeneity of developmental pathways, (3)
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2021
Alcohol use disorder is one of the most common disorders that healthcare professionals will evaluate and manage across specialties. Despite the vast prevalence, many physicians struggle in managing this heterogeneous illness. In this chapter, the author presents the case of a man with severe alcohol addiction, highlighting the biopsychosocial factors ...
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Alcohol use disorder is one of the most common disorders that healthcare professionals will evaluate and manage across specialties. Despite the vast prevalence, many physicians struggle in managing this heterogeneous illness. In this chapter, the author presents the case of a man with severe alcohol addiction, highlighting the biopsychosocial factors ...
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Prescription Drug and Alcohol Use Disorders: Alcohol Use Disorder.
FP essentials, 2019Alcohol use is a common contributor to medical disease and a leading cause of preventable death. Because brief interventions for unhealthy alcohol use are effective, and because risk factors for unhealthy alcohol use are not always immediately identifiable, universal screening is recommended for adults.
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