OBJECTIVE Parental alcoholism is generally found to be a strong predictor of alcohol misuse. Although the majority of siblings agree on the presence of parental alcohol issues, there is a significant minority who do not. METHOD The current study analyzed sibling data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth using multilevel modeling, which accounts for the nested structure of the d...

BACKGROUND & AIMS Taiwan has a high prevalence of hepatitis B viral (HBV) infection and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with increasing consumption of alcohol. We investigated the impact of heavy alcohol consumption and HBV infection on HCC in cirrhotic patients. METHODS 966 cirrhotic patients (132 with HBV infection and alcoholism, 632 with HBV infection, and 202 patients with alcoholism) wer...

BACKGROUND Longitudinal studies are needed to resolve inconsistencies in previous findings regarding antecedents of alcoholism. OBJECTIVE To investigate genetic and environmental risk factors for alcoholism. DESIGN A 4-year longitudinal cohort study. SETTING General community. PARTICIPANTS A population-based cohort was randomly selected from 4 aboriginal groups in Taiwan. Cohort subject...

In this study, we assess business managers’ perception of alcoholism effects in the working environment. This quantitative, descriptive and cross sectional study was conducted through questionnaires addressed to 36 companies service manufacturing industries. Main findings revealed that, although considered as a problem by investigated companies, only 22% implemented policies help alcoholic work...

Passik and colleagues address an important and badly neglected issue in cancer care. Alcoholism has been reported to occur in 5% to 15% of the North American population, and drug abuse in approximately 5%. In hospitalized patients, the prevalence of alcoholism increases to approximately 20%.[1] In 200 patients admitted to a tertiary palliative care program in a health care system providing univ...

Interviews and history questionnaires are commonly used to aid in initial diagnosis of alcoholism and identification of individuals with suspected alcohol abuse. Two of the widespread measures used as questionnaires are by National Council on Alcoholism Committee and Michigan Alcoholism Sc~xing Test. These have their limitations e.g., only 13% of 104 admissions in general hospihal were identifi...

Alcoholism is highly prevalent among bipolar disorder (BD) patients, and its presence is associated with a worse outcome and refractoriness to treatment of the mood disorder. The neurobiological underpinnings that characterize this comorbidity are unknown. We sought to investigate the neurochemical profile of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) of BD patients with comorbid alcoholism. A ...

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A substantial proportion of individuals infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) also abuse alcohol. Given that each condition can disrupt brain structural integrity, with a predilection for white matter, we used MR diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and quantitative fibre tracking to examine the separate and combined effects on the microstructure of the corpus callosum. Subjects were men a...

William Sullivan’s 1899 paper, ‘A Note on the Influence of Maternal Inebriety on the Offspring’, often cited as a precursor to modern fetal alcohol research, was published at a time when alcoholism was a topic of great interest in Europe and North America. Emerging theories of heredity, eugenics and temperance movements drove alcoholism research from 1860 to 1910. In addition to an upsurge of m...