BACKGROUND Amateur sporting clubs represent an attractive setting for health promotion. This study assesses the impact of a multi-component intervention on the availability, promotion and purchase of fruit and vegetable and non sugar -sweetened drink products from community sporting club canteens. We also assessed the impact the intervention on sporting club revenue from the sale of food and be...

INTRODUCTION Cue-reactivity is thought to play a fundamental role in the maintenance of addiction. The incentive sensitization theory proposes that conditioned responses are related to increased sensitivity of the reward-related dopaminergic pathways in the brain. However, neuroimaging studies on alcohol cue-reactivity show inconsistent results. METHODS Stimuli content of 26 alcohol cue-react...

Alcohol addiction affects many clients that enter the offices of traditional mental health professionals. Their recovery is impacted by what goes on inside the office, in treatment, as well as by involvement outside the office, in 12-step programs as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). This article examines alcoholism as a thought disorder and cognitive restructuring as an effective model of treatment. ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS General population studies have shown a strong association between alcohol intake and death from alcoholic cirrhosis, but whether this is a dose-response or a threshold effect remains unknown, and the relation among alcohol misusers has not been studied. METHODS A cohort of 6152 alcohol misusing men and women aged 15-83 were interviewed about drinking pattern and social issues...

BACKGROUND The consumption and drinking frequency of alcoholic beverage are identified with various individual factors. The aim of this study was to identify background characteristics of women associated with the consumption and drinking frequency of alcoholic beverage. METHODS Data was extracted from the 2008 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey. The data consisted of women's (aged 15-49 yea...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence and factors associated with alcohol use among adolescents. METHODS Population-based, cross-sectional study performed from 2005 to 2006, in the city of Pelotas, Southern Brazil, with 1,056 adolescents aged between 11 and 15 years. An anonymous, self-applied questionnaire was used, based on the World Health Organization model for drug use. Poisson regression...

BACKGROUND Denmark has one of the highest alcohol consumption rates in Northern Europe. The overall per capita alcohol consumption has been stable in recent decades, but surveys have indicated that consumption has decreased in the young and increased in the old. However, there is no recent information on the epidemiology of alcoholic cirrhosis. We examined time trends in incidence, prevalence, ...

Changes to the regulation of alcoholic beverage sales have occurred in more than a dozen states over the past three decades. These changes potentially alter the retail structure of the alcoholic beverage package store sector by introducing competition from grocery and bigbox stores and increasing costs. This paper reports the findings of a spatial econometric model of changes to alcoholic bever...