Stress, Recent Changes in Alcohol Consumption Level, and Problem Drinking in FreshmanFirst Offenders

2006 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 33-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas O'Hare ◽  
Margaret V. Sherrer
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Problem Drinking ◽  
Consumption Level

scholarly journals Changes in Alcohol Consumption during the COVID-19 Pandemic—Small Change in Total Consumption, but Increase in Proportion of Heavy Drinkers

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 4231
Author(s):  
Ingeborg Rossow ◽  
Elin K. Bye ◽  
Inger Synnøve Moan ◽  
Carolin Kilian ◽  
Jørgen G. Bramness
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Drinking Behavior ◽  
Web Surveys ◽  
Total Consumption ◽  
Consumption Level ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
Heavy Drinkers ◽  
Total Alcohol ◽  
Small Change

Little is known about possible changes in alcohol consumption distribution during the COVID-19 pandemic. We estimated how individual changes in alcohol consumption during the pandemic translated into changes in: (i) mean consumption; (ii) dispersion of consumption distribution; and (iii) prevalence of heavy drinkers. We employed data from two independent web-surveys of Norwegian adults collected between April and July 2020 and limited to those reporting past year alcohol consumption (N1 = 15,267, N2 = 1195). Self-reports of changes in drinking behavior were quantified, assuming change being relative to baseline consumption level. During the pandemic, we found a small increase (Survey 1) or no change (Survey 2) in estimated mean alcohol consumption (which parallels to total consumption). However, in both surveys, the dispersion of the distribution increased significantly (p < 0.001). For most respondents, an average modest decline in consumption was found. However, the small fraction with the highest baseline consumption increased their consumption substantially, and in effect, the proportion of heavy drinkers increased markedly (p < 0.001). In conclusion, quantifications of reported changes in alcohol consumption during the pandemic suggest that the upper 5 to 10% of the drinkers increased their consumption and hence the prevalence of heavy drinkers increased, despite little or no change in total alcohol consumption.

scholarly journals From Cannabis to Problem Drinking? Use and Abuse from Youth to Adulthood

2014 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christer Hyggen ◽  
Torild Hammer
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Problem Drinking ◽  
Total N ◽  
Level Of Involvement ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Adult Roles ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Alcohol Related Problems

AbstractAIMS – The transition from youth to adulthood is associated with changes in the consumption of drugs and alcohol. The aim is to explore the process of “maturing out” of high levels of alcohol consumption, substance use and alcohol related problems from youth to adulthood. We are particularly interested in the relationship between the use of cannabis and alcohol consumption in relation to indicators of adult roles and responsibilities and alcohol-related problems over the life-course. METHODS – We used data from the longitudinal panel survey Arbeid, Livsstil og Helse (ALH). The data contains information on alcohol and drug consumption, alcohol related problems and a range of indicators of adulthood like marriage and parenthood from surveys repeated in 1985, 1987, 1989, 1993, 2003 and 2010. The sample was nationally representative for the cohorts born 1965–1968 and thus contains individual histories from youth (17–20 years) to adulthood (42–45 years) with response rates ranging from 80% in 1985 to 53% in 2010 (total n=1997). RESULTS – Alcohol consumption is found to be substantially higher among users of cannabis than among non-users throughout the period from youth to adulthood. The use of cannabis, the level of alcohol consumption and probability of experiencing alcohol related problems decrease as the cohorts grow older. Alcohol related problems are still associated with the level of involvement with cannabis: those with a current or previous involvement with cannabis report more alcohol related problems. Taking into account the decreasing trend of alcohol related problems with age we find that becoming a parent and/ or getting married reduces the risk of experiencing such problems.

scholarly journals PREVALENCE OF PROBLEM DRINKING AND ALCOHOL RELATED PROBLEMS AMONG TEAM SPORTS PLAYERS

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 24-28
Author(s):  
S A Medvedev ◽  
Yu P Zverev
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Problem Drinking ◽  
Team Sports ◽  
Alcoholic Beverages ◽  
Basketball Players ◽  
Psychometric Instrument ◽  
Russian Version ◽  
Professional Soccer ◽  
Typical Day ◽  
Alcohol Related Problems

The aim of the present study was to assess the reasons and the pattern of alcohol consumption and the prevalence of alcohol related problems among professional soccer and basketball players. Psychometric instrument included Russian version of "AUDIT". The results demonstrated presence of significant alcoholization of sportsmen, which was reflected in the absence of responders abstaining from alcohol, preference for strong alcoholic beverages, high mean "AUDIT" score (7,4 ± 3,1) and alcohol consumption (401,7 ± 271,2 ml of ethanol per month). About one third of sportsmen consumed alcohol at dangerous level. The typical pattern of alcohol consumption was characterized by frequent intake of alcohol and consumption of 5 and more drinks on a typical day of drinking. About 93% of athletes experienced alcohol related problems.

scholarly journals A qualitative study of local perspectives on problem drinking in Peruvian Andean highlands: control, power, and responsibility

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sakiko Yamaguchi ◽  
Raphael Lencucha ◽  
Thomas Gordon Brown
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Problem Drinking ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Government Control ◽  
Macroeconomic Conditions ◽  
Alcohol Control ◽  
Local Perspectives

Abstract Background Alcohol control has garnered attention from the global health community in recent years. This attention is partly prompted by increasing exposure of nefarious alcohol industry practices, coupled with the recognition that many governments have not yet put in place alcohol control policies, leaving populations vulnerable to industry influence. The Peruvian Andean highland has seen the change of the Andean practice of collective drinking in response to the increased availability of alcohol and the experience of political violence. This study seeks to merge the broader political economy with local experience and culture in order to provide a deeper understanding of the dynamic between global processes and local realities.Methods We conducted focus group interviews (n=19) with community participants, teachers, and health workers, and key informant interviews (n=28). Thematic analysis identified patterns of individual and collective meaning and social, political and economic factors. Results Local perspectives regarding loss of control over alcohol highlight the complex patterns of power and meaning exerted and experienced by different actors, shaping both understanding and behaviour. Participants’ focus on parents’ lack of control over alcohol use by some “abandoned” children reflects the structural vulnerability of some Andean families struggling with economic hardships. Another focus was on the money spent by men to engage in problem drinking. Participants interpreted alcohol consumption in this context as a way that men demonstrate their masculine identity and symbolic power as the breadwinner who controls the household economy. The third focus is superimposed onto the market economy. Participants expressed that the expansion of the alcohol market and perceived absence of government control coupled with macroeconomic conditions shaped patterns of alcohol consumption.Conclusion Participants’ perspectives illustrate how problem drinking is shaped not simply by an individual drinker’s lack of self-control but also shaped by an environment that enables the unrestrained marketing of alcohol products and the creation of a culture of consumption. Harmful consumption is mediated by the reshaping of the Andean cultural practice of collective drinking. Attending to local perspectives is essential for policies and interventions that connect structural dynamics with the cultural and experiential aspects of alcohol consumption.

Mapping drink: The spatial logic of social reform

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Beckingham
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Problem Drinking ◽  
Town Hall ◽  
Liberal Politics ◽  
Spatial Logic ◽  
Licensed Premises ◽  
Spatial Imagination ◽  
The Town ◽  
Political Turn

Having established a political turn in temperance agitation, chapter four examines a prominent group in local Liberal politics: the Popular Control and Licensing Reform Association (PCA). By analysing a series of distinctive maps of public houses produced by the PCA this chapter argues that social reform was rooted in an importantly spatial imagination of problem drinking. The PCA mapped an area of largely Irish north Liverpool, as well as the districts around the Sailors’ Home, St John’s Market and the Town Hall. As such, the group called out a strong connection between the distribution of licensed premises and problems such as prostitution and drunkenness that were associated with alcohol consumption.

Patterns of alcohol consumption and psychiatric disorders among Ontario adults

1997 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 533-556 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Ross ◽  
Jürgen Rehm ◽  
Gordon Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Problem Drinking ◽  
Composite International Diagnostic Interview ◽  
Diagnostic Interview ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

This study examined the relationship between patterns of alcohol consumption, including problem drinking, and psychiatric disorders in the general population. The paper utilizes data on 8,116 adults age 15–64 living in households who were interviewed for the Ontario Health Survey and the Mental Health Supplement. The University of Michigan Composite International Diagnostic Interview (UM-CIDI) was administered by trained lay interviewers to generate lifetime DSM-III-R diagnoses. Unlike previous studies, the results of this study provided no evidence of a U-shaped or J-shaped curve or relationship between alcohol use and mental health. Lifetime abstainers had the lowest risks for all mental disorders examined, while former at-risk drinkers (those who had not had a drink in the previous year but at one time regularly drank more than 12 drinks a week) had the highest risks, even after adjustment for age and gender.

scholarly journals Is Alcohol Consumption Associated with Poor Perceived Academic Performance? Survey of Undergraduates in Finland

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 1369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walid El Ansari ◽  
Abdul Salam ◽  
Sakari Suominen
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Alcohol Dependence ◽  
Parental Education ◽  
Problem Drinking ◽  
Heavy Episodic Drinking ◽  
Sociodemographic Characteristics ◽  
Living Situation ◽  
Alcohol Behaviors

The relationship between academic performance and alcohol consumption among students remains inconsistent. We assessed this relationship, controlling for sociodemographic characteristics across seven faculties at the University of Turku (1177 undergraduates). An online questionnaire assessed: seven sociodemographic characteristics (age, gender, year/discipline of study, accommodation type, being in intimate relationship, parental education, and income sufficiency); two perceived academic performance (students’ subjective importance of achieving good grades and students’ appraisal of their academic performance compared to peers); and six alcohol consumption behaviors (length of time, amount consumed, frequency, heavy episodic drinking, problem drinking, and possible alcohol dependence). Simple logistic regression assessed relationships between sociodemographic and academic variables with alcohol consumption behaviors; multiple logistic regression assessed the same relationships after controlling for all other variables. Students reported long duration and large amount of drinking (46% and 50%), high frequency of drinking (41%), heavy episodic drinking (66%), problem drinking (29%), and possible alcohol dependence (9%). After controlling, gender was associated with all alcohol consumption behaviors, followed by religiosity (associated with four alcohol behaviors), living situation, marital status, age (each associated with two alcohol behaviors), and parental education and year of study (each associated with one alcohol behavior). Study discipline, income sufficiency, importance of achieving good grades, and academic performance compared to peers were not associated with any alcohol behaviors. Universities need to assess problem drinking and alcohol use disorders among students. Prevention strategies are required to reduce risk. Health promotion efforts could focus on beliefs and expectations about alcohol and target student groups at risk for more efficient and successful efforts.

Measurement of Alcohol Consumption: Issues and Challenges

2005 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn S. Sommers
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Problem Drinking ◽  
White Male ◽  
Heavy Drinking ◽  
Standard Drink ◽  
Consumption Data ◽  
Study Population ◽  
Older Populations ◽  
Alcohol Dependent

In both the clinical and research settings, nurses assess patterns of alcohol consumption to screen for risk of adverse events or to determine the health consequences of drinking. The purposes of this critical review are to explore issues and controversies surrounding the measurement of alcohol consumption and to critique the existing literature relevant to the research and clinical arenas. An electronic literature search was completed to identify research articles addressing human studies from 1995 through 2004 related to alcohol consumption. Key words included alcohol drinking (subheadings blood, metabolism, psychology, and urine), standard drink, problem drinking, heavy drinking, and ethanol analysis (subheadings blood, urine, and chemistry). The results were in two primary content areas: self-reported alcohol consumption and assessment of consumption by using biological markers.Self-reported alcohol consumption can be quantified in a variety of ways, such as ounces of ethanol per day, standard drinks per day, drinking occurrences per month, heavy drinking occasions per month, and frequency of perceived drunkenness. The choice of measure depends on setting (clinical vs. research), the role of the variable under study, the capabilities and demographics of the study population, the study design, and the resources available to collect alcohol consumption data.A variety of biologic instruments are used to assess alcohol consumption, each with sensitivities and specificities that vary by age, gender, and possibly by ethnicity/race. Previous work has focused on the white, male, alcohol-dependent population and non-alcohol-dependent male controls. Some urgency exists to expand the biometrics of alcohol use to minority and older populations as well as to women across the life span.

scholarly journals Geograpahic distribution of allele frequencies of alcohol metabolism genes and possible determinants of inter population diversity in human

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 47-56
Author(s):  
Svetlana A Borinskaya ◽  
◽  
Nina R Kalina ◽  
Vyacheslav I Shirmanov ◽  
Vladimir A Koshechkin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Geographic Distribution ◽  
Population Diversity ◽  
Allele Frequencies ◽  
Alcohol Metabolism ◽  
Consumption Level ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Lower Alcohol ◽  
Metabolism Enzymes

ADH1B and ALDH2 genes are coding for key alcohol metabolism enzymes. Both allele ADH1B*Arg48His and ALDH2*504Lys are associated with lower alcohol consumption level. The allele frequencies were determined for rather few populations of Russia. The article presents аn updated review on the allele frequencies worldwide including the data for populations of Russia which were determined by our lab in recent years. Possible role of factors influencing the peculiarities of ADH1B*48His and ALDH2*504Lys allele frequencies geographic distribution are being discussed. 

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document