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Comparing Growth Trajectories of Risk Behaviors From Late Adolescence Through Young Adulthood: An Accelerated Design. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Risk behaviors such as substance use or deviance are often limited to the early stages of the life course. Whereas the onset of risk behavior is well studied, less is currently known about the decline and timing of cessation of risk behaviors of ...
Bachmann, Monica S.   +3 more
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Self-reported drunkenness among adolescents in four sub-Saharan African countries: associations with adverse childhood experiences

open access: yesChild and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 2010
Background Consumption of alcohol is associated with acute and chronic adverse health outcomes. There is a paucity of studies that explore the determinants of alcohol use among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa and, in particular, that examine the ...
Crichton Joanna   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Epidemiology of alcohol consumption in an urban area of Kancheepuram district, Tamil Nadu

open access: yesJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2019
Introduction: In India, the ever increasing production, promotion, distribution, and the easy availability and accessibility of alcohol together with the changing values in the society have resulted in alcohol consumption becoming one of the major public
V M. Anantha Eashwar   +3 more
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ALDH2*2 and peer drinking in East Asian college students [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Background: The ALDH2*2 allele (A-allele) at rs671 is more commonly carried by Asians and is associated with alcohol-related flushing, a strong adverse reaction to alcohol that is protective against drinking.
Chartier, Karen G.   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

The international development of the ‘Social Norms’ approach to drug education and prevention [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Binge drinking has sparked considerable interest and concern. However despite this interest little is known about the lay understanding of binge drinking and whether there are differences in understanding by gender, age and level of deprivation.
Bewick, B., Hughes, C., McAlaney, John
core   +1 more source

Voluntary temporary abstinence from alcohol during “Dry January” and subsequent alcohol use [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Objective: Temporary abstinence from alcohol may convey physiological benefits and enhance well-being. The aim of this study was to address a lack of information about: (1) correlates of successful completion of a planned period of abstinence, and (2 ...
Bond, Rod   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Borracheras, huidas y rebeldía entre los indios de Chile colonial.Decretos, autos y bandos de los siglos XVI y XVII

open access: yesCorpus: Archivos Virtuales de la Alteridad Americana, 2014
The documents presented below provide a picture of the political, social and ethnic mosaic of the colonial Chile. They form an administrative body revealing ambiguities in a bustling frontier.
Hugo Contreras Cruces
doaj   +1 more source

Biopsychosocial Factors of Adolescent Health Risk Behaviours during the COVID-19 Pandemic—Insights from an Empirical Study

open access: yesSocieties, 2023
The paper focuses on the association between Bulgarian adolescents’ health risk behaviours (cigarette smoking, vaping, alcohol use and drunkenness) and biopsychosocial factors at individual and interpersonal levels, using data from the pre-pandemic and ...
Elitsa Dimitrova   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Structural and Functional Fundamentals of Alcoholic Disease

open access: yesРоссийский журнал гастроэнтерологии, гепатологии, колопроктологии, 2018
Aim. To suggest a new perspective on chronic alcohol intoxication by means of investigating the associated severe multiple organ pathology, which frequently becomes the cause of lethal outcome in patients suffering from drunkenness and alcoholism.Key ...
V. S. Paukov   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Kordax und Methe: Lasterhaftes Treiben in byzantinischer Zeit [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2013
Following antique traditions the Byzantines assessed the kordax, a dance of men, usually accompanied by songs and a kithara, and the methe, i. e. drunkenness, mostly negative.
Koder Johannes
doaj   +1 more source

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