OBJECTIVES Alcohol abuse and addiction are big current problems of the developed world having multivariate causality and multiple effects. Alcohol abuse in young people is a matter of central importance due to its wide range long lasting effects, especially so in Greece where the problem has only recently started growing. The Hellenic Navy is interested in the complications of alcohol abuse in ...

INTRODUCTION Although alcohol abuse is associated with hypertension in whites and nonwhites, it has been scarcely investigated in HIV-infected patients. OBJECTIVE To investigate whether the association of alcohol abuse with hypertension is influenced by skin color in HIV-infected individuals. METHODS Cross-sectional study in HIV-infected individuals aged 18 years or older. Demographic chara...

Aims: Circadian clock genes are involved in the development of drug-induced behaviors and regulate neurotransmission pathways in addiction. Our aim was to study whether circadian clock gene polymorphisms predispose to alcohol dependence or abuse or other alcohol-related characteristics. Methods: The study sample comprised of 512 individuals having alcohol dependence or alcohol abuse (according ...

AIMS Circadian clock genes are involved in the development of drug-induced behaviors and regulate neurotransmission pathways in addiction. Our aim was to study whether circadian clock gene polymorphisms predispose to alcohol dependence or abuse or other alcohol-related characteristics. METHODS The study sample comprised of 512 individuals having alcohol dependence or alcohol abuse (according ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between alcohol consumption and emotional distress in pregnant women, and to verify whether women with problematic alcohol consumption (abuse or dependence) have more emotional distress than those with non-problematic alcohol consumption. METHODS A cross-sectional observational study was carried out in a clinical sample from a public obstetric service...

AIMS To compare the discriminant validity of the DSM-IV and the ICD-10 classification of alcohol use disorders (AUD) with an alternative classification, the craving withdrawal model (CWM). CWM requires craving and withdrawal for the diagnosis of alcohol dependence and raises the alcohol abuse threshold to two DSM-IV AUD criteria. METHODS Data were derived from The Netherlands Mental Health Su...

Introduction The association between psoriasis and alcohol abuse is generally mentioned only in the small print of standard texts, and is quoted only in relation to liver damage and the implication thereof for the use of methotrexate therapy to control the psoriasis. Delaney and Leppard found no association between liver disease, alcohol •... '" consumption, and psoriasis in a small study. Howe...

Background: The role of smoking and alcohol consumption in the pathogenesis of psoriasis is well-known; however, certain published studies have focused on the relationship between substance abuse and psoriasis. The present study was conducted to evaluate the prevalence of tobacco smoking, and substance and alcohol use in patients with psoriasis.Methods: Patients with a definite diagnosis ...

Although parasuicide has been widely studied, its indirect relationship with alcohol abuse has received less attention. The present study examines the incidence of alcohol-related parasuicide at a Pietermaritzburg general hospital. Over 40% of married parasuicide women cited their husbands' abuse of alcohol and its associated violent behaviour as precipitants to their self-destructive acts. How...

IMPORTANCE We demonstrate that patients who have undergone gastric bypass surgery (GBS) have a higher risk of inpatient care for alcohol dependence than those who have undergone restrictive surgery. This highlights a need for health care providers to be aware of this so that early detection and treatment can be put in place. OBJECTIVE To evaluate inpatient care for alcohol abuse before and af...