Thursday, February 9, 2012
Abstract Aims: Marital dissolution is associated with increased risk of problematic drinking. However, marriage to a problem drinker also increases this risk, and ending this type of relationship may actually decrease risk of problematic drinking. This study tested whether women ending their marriage to a problem drinker exhibited improvements in drinking.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Conclusion: EPHX1 gene polymorphisms and haplotypes are associated with an increased risk for alcoholism in the Kota population. This is the first report from India that will serve as a template for future investigations of the prevalence of EPHX1 alleles in association with various clinical entities. PMID: 22257321 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse)
Conclusions: Cannabis, amphetamine, and opiate use are associated with an increased risk of becoming a forensic psychiatric patient, but no substantial differences were observed among patients with psychosis diagnosis in the relative risk increase for cannabis versus amphetamine versus opiate use, indicating that none of these drugs are uniquely associated with violent offending among mentally ill. PMID: 22242792 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse)
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
ABSTRACT Aims To characterize smokeless tobacco initiation and persistence in relation to deployment, combat, occupation, smoking, and mental health symptoms. Design Prospective cohort, utilizing self-reported survey data from the Millennium Cohort Study.
Filed in Evidence Base, tobacco
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Also tagged combat-exposure, initiation-were, mental-health, millennium, odds, over-the-study, reduction, self-reported, similar-pattern, stress-disorder, study, tobacco
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
People who are alcohol-dependent and who also carry a particular variant of a gene run an increased risk of premature death. This is a recent finding from the interdisciplinary research at the Department of Psychology and the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden…
Aims: To examine associations of abstention, alcohol consumption and problem drinking with subsequent disability pensioning (DP), and whether previous excessive consumption ( sick-quitting ) could explain some of the increased risk for DP among abstainers. Design: Prospective population-based study. Setting and participants: Data were from two waves of the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT) linked with the national insurance database
Abstract Aims: Given rising rates of the nonmedical use of prescription medications (NUPM) and strong cross-sectional associations between psychopathology and NUPM, we examined whether a history of NUPM increased the risk for onset and recurrence of psychopathology. Design: Longitudinal data are from waves 1 and 2 of the National Epidemiological Survey on Alcoholism and Related Conditions (NESARC). Setting: The NESARC is a nationwide, household-based survey.
Scientists have long known that people who have a close relative with alcohol problems themselves run an increased risk of starting to abuse alcohol. The reason for this has not been known, but a new study from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, provides part of the answer…
Researchers have long known that individuals with a positive family history of alcoholism (FHP) are at an increased risk themselves for alcoholism. This increased risk may be due to their different reaction to alcohol than individuals with a negative family history of alcoholism (FHN)…
Researchers know that there is a strong link between parental alcohol use disorders (AUDs) and the risk for developing an AUD among their offspring.