BACKGROUND Cancer is a serious public health problem worldwide, and its relationship with affective disorders is not clear. Aims To investigate alcohol- and tobacco-related cancer risk among patients with affective disorders in a large Taiwanese cohort. METHOD Records of newly admitted patients with affective disorders from January 1997 through December 2002 were retrieved from the Psychiatri...

AIM To document over-time per capita alcohol consumption and connection between per capita alcohol consumption and indicators of short and long term alcohol-related harm. METHODS Registered alcohol consumption was calculated from the data on production and trade of alcoholic beverages, using World Health Organization recommended methodology for the 1981-2002 period. The indicators of alcohol-...

CONTEXT Although several studies have suggested that alcohol use may increase after disasters, it is unclear whether any apparent postdisaster increases regularly translate into new cases of alcohol use disorders. OBJECTIVE To determine the relationship of predisaster and postdisaster prevalence of alcohol use disorders and to examine the incidence of alcohol use disorders in relation to disa...

OBJECTIVE To examine how social contexts of drinking are related to alcohol use disorders, other alcohol-related problems, and depression among college students. METHODS Logistic regression models controlling for drinking frequency measured the association between social context and problems, among 728 current drinkers. RESULTS Drinking for social facilitation was associated with drinking a...

The personality traits constraint (CN) and negative emotionality (NE) have been more (CN) or less (NE) consistently associated with alcoholism. The authors examined the association of personality at age 17 with timing of onset and with prospective prediction of nicotine, alcohol, and illicit drug disorders 3 years later in a twin sample (569 females; 432 males). Earlier onset of alcohol and dru...

aims: drug addiction is a mental, social, and economic problem that comes from abnormal and illicit consumption of substances such as alcohol, opium, hashish, and etc., making the addict psychologically and physiologically dependent to those substances. this study was designed and performed to evaluate the pattern of drug abuse change in the addicts visiting addiction treatment centers of kasha...

background: addiction is multi-dimensional medical problem and psychologic defects have a major role on its establishment. this study was designed to determine the effect of emotional quotient (eq) on the rate of addiction relapse after quitting. methods: this was a prospective cross-sectional study on 22 to 51 year old subjects who were being treated at chemical dependency rehabilitation cente...

Alcohol abuse and dependence are among the most common psychiatric conditions identified in epidemiological surveys of the general population. The aim of this article is to examine the psychometric properties of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, (4th ed.; DSM-IV; American Psychiatric Association, 1994) criteria for alcohol abuse and dependence using latent class analysis (L...

OBJECTIVE Several tests can be used to screen for alcohol dependence (AD), a prevalent disease with a heterogeneous etiology. As some patients with AD have a strong familial tendency in this regard, a family history of alcohol use disorders can affect the outcomes of screening tests and diagnostic evaluations for AD. In this study, we evaluated associations between a family history of alcohol u...