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The importance of family management, closeness with father and family structure in early adolescent alcohol use

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Aims To examine the importance of family management, family structure and father[ndash]adolescent relationships on early adolescent alcohol use.Design Cross-sectional data was collected across 30 randomly selected Australian communities stratified to represent a range of socio-economic and regional variation.Setting Data were collected during school time from adolescents attending a broad range of schools.Participants The sample consisted of a combined 8256 students (aged 10[ndash]14 years).Measurements Students completed a web-based survey as part of the Healthy Neighbourhoods project.Findings Family management[mdash]which included practices such as parental monitoring and family rules about alcohol use[mdash]had the strongest and most consistent relationship with alcohol use in early adolescence.

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Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity – a summary of the second edition

Friday, March 19, 2010

This article summarizes the contents of Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity (2nd edn).

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Do maternal parenting practices predict problematic patterns of adolescent alcohol consumption?

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Objective This study examines whether a mother’s style of parenting at child age 5 years predicts problematic patterns of drinking in adolescence, after controlling for relevant individual, maternal and social risk factors. Methods Data were used from the Mater-University Study of Pregnancy, an Australian longitudinal study of mothers and their children from pregnancy to when the children were 14 years of age. Logistic regression analyses examined whether maternal parenting practices at child age 5 predicted problematic drinking patterns in adolescence, after controlling for a range of confounding covariates.Results Physical punishment at child age 5 did not predict adolescent alcohol problems at follow-up.

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Are the effects of gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) treatment partly physiological in alcohol dependence?

Saturday, July 5, 2008

Authors: Ameisen O It has been hypothesized that the therapeutic effects of Gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) in alcohol dependence could be related to ethanol-mimicking action of the drug and that GHB could reduce alcohol craving, intake and withdrawal by acting as a “substitute” of the alcohol in the central nervous system.

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Are the effects of gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) treatment partly physiological in alcohol dependence?

Saturday, July 5, 2008

Authors: Ameisen O It has been hypothesized that the therapeutic effects of Gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) in alcohol dependence could be related to ethanol-mimicking action of the drug and that GHB could reduce alcohol craving, intake and withdrawal by acting as a “substitute” of the alcohol in the central nervous system. Nevertheless, alcohol being the strongest trigger of craving and intake, it is difficult to ascribe reduction of craving and intake to ethanol-mimicking activity of GHB

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