Thursday, January 20, 2011
New research shows that heavy drinking to alleviate negative feelings may have a genetic component Drinking in teens, especially binging, is a large problem within the Netherlands and European Union A new study explored the relationship of drinking to remove or supress negative emotions (known as drinking to cope) with two different genes: DRD2 and SLC6A4 These results …
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
A study that compared the drinking patterns of middle aged men in France to counterparts in Belfast in Northern Ireland, found that binge drinking was linked to nearly double the risk of heart disease, suggesting that Belfast’s binge drinking culture, where there is a tendency to drink a lot of alcohol in one day at the weekend, could be fuelling the city’s high rate of heart disease…
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Friday, November 12, 2010
A multi-tiered effort designed to stem binge drinking at a large university and to change the drinking culture among its students produced notable results during the 2.5 years of an Indiana University study…
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Balance , the regional alcohol group for the North East, has carried out a Survey of North East Publicans [pdf] to explore business, trends and policy issues affecting publicans. A total of 244 pubs and clubs in the North East of England took part in the survey. Key findings include : More than one in two pubs and clubs in the North East experienced a decline in business performance in the last year (56%); two fifths (38%) predict further decline in trade over the next twelve months.
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Latest alcohol research from the Findings database : Naltrexone aids primary care alcohol treatment The large-scale US COMBINE study reinforced evidence that the opiate-blocking drug naltrexone also helps dependent drinkers and extended its potential to the kind of drinkers and the kind of treatments found in primary care settings.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
ABSTRACT Aims US college drinking data and a simple population model of alcohol consumption are used to explore the impact of social and contextual parameters on the distribution of light, moderate and heavy drinkers. Light drinkers become moderate drinkers under social influence, moderate drinkers may change environments and become heavy drinkers
Two ordinary Brisbane residents are sharing their stories of battling the demon drink with the help of the Queensland University of Technology Psychology and Counselling Clinic. Jonathon and Lauren took advantage of up to 10 free individual therapy sessions that are still available to people concerned about their drinking…
Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) the study designed the two programmes and examined their effectiveness in helping excessive drinkers reduce their drinking. The AACTP and LEAP programmes address the challenges faced by excessive drinkers, including a preoccupation with drinking made worse by alcohol-related stimuli around them…
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The Home Office have opened consultation on government plans to overhaul the current licensing regime, following the Home Secretary's announcement earlier this week: 'Rebalancing the Licensing Act – a consultation on empowering individuals, families and local communities to shape and determine local licensing' [pdf] The consultation page highlights the main commitments identified in reforming the Licensing Act, but stresses '… we're interested in what you think the implications of implementing the proposals will be, rather than your views on the commitments themselves: overhauling the
Objective We hypothesized that the drinking behavior of adolescents in China is influenced by expectancies and self-efficacy and that adolescents’ cultural orientation towards western versus traditional Chinese values influences expectancies, self-efficacy and drinking behavior, with western values leading to more dysfunctional patterns of beliefs and drinking, and that these beliefs are influenced by students’ gender and school environment.Methods A total of 1020 high school students from Beijing completed the Chinese Adolescent Alcohol Expectancy, the Chinese Cultural Orientation and the Chinese Self-regulation Self-efficacy questionnaires.Results Results generally confirmed our hypotheses. Higher negative expectancies and higher self-efficacy reduced the likelihood of drinking significantly. Higher positive expectancies increased the likelihood of regular drinking but not occasional drinking