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Alcohol Drinking - Prevention & control
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Definition of 'Alcohol Drinking'Behaviors associated with the ingesting of alcoholic beverages, including social drinking. Common names: Alcohol Drinking; Alcohol Consumption; Consumption, Alcohol; Drinking, Alcohol |
Sunday, November 22, 2009
12 Sep 2009 
BACKGROUND: University students drink more heavily than their nonstudent peers and are often unaware that their drinking is risky and exceeds normative levels. We tested the efficacy of a proactive Web-based alcohol screening and brief intervention ... Read more...
30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: Women working in traditionally male-dominated environments are at higher risk for alcohol use disorders (AUDs). The male-dominated U.S. military has additional risk factors associated with problem drinking, including isolation from family ... Read more...
30 Aug 2009 PURPOSE OF REVIEW: We review important new clinical observations in chronic pancreatitis made in the last year. RECENT FINDINGS: Cholecystokinin-stimulated endoscopic pancreatic function testing has low specificity for diagnosis of early chronic ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Alcohol Drinking - Prevention & control'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- Supermarket chains warn that minimum pricing of alcohol will not stop binge drinking.
14 Oct 2009 - Knowledge of drinking guidelines does not equal sensible drinking. 8 Oct 2009
- Alcohol misuse among the elderly: an opportunity for prevention. 29 Sep 2009
- Randomized controlled trial of proactive web-based alcohol screening and brief intervention for university students. 12 Sep 2009
- Women, alcohol, and the military: cultural changes and reductions in later alcohol problems among female veterans. 30 Aug 2009
- Chronic pancreatitis. 30 Aug 2009
- [Talking about alcohol. "A guidebook to the art of communication at a spiritual level"] 30 Aug 2009
- State of the science: promoting self-care in persons with heart failure: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. 29 Aug 2009
- Attitudes, norms and controls influencing lifestyle risk factor management in general practice. 24 Aug 2009
- Stress and hazardous alcohol use: associations with early dropout from university. 19 Aug 2009
- Effectiveness of mandatory alcohol testing programs in reducing alcohol involvement in fatal motor carrier crashes. 17 Aug 2009
- Alcohol advertising during televised sports and alcohol consumption by adolescents. 3 Aug 2009
- Addressing the global drink problem. 30 Jul 2009
- Opium, tobacco and alcohol: the evolving legitimacy of international action. 30 Jul 2009
- Efficacy of a combination of flumazenil and gabapentin in the treatment of alcohol dependence: relationship to alcohol withdrawal symptoms. 30 Jul 2009
- Social norms interventions to reduce alcohol misuse in university or college students. 6 Jul 2009
- Survey of health attitudes and behaviors of a chiropractic college population. 29 Jun 2009
- Characterization of health status and modifiable risk behavior among United States adults using chiropractic care as compared with general medical care. 29 Jun 2009
- Survey of alcohol and other drug use attitudes and behaviors in nursing students. 29 Jun 2009
- Binge drinking among youths and young adults in the United States: 1979-2006. 29 Jun 2009
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Technical information about 'Alcohol Drinking'
Definition: Behaviors associated with the ingesting of alcoholic beverages, including social drinking.
Descriptor UI: D000428
Alternative terms: Alcohol Drinking; Alcohol Consumption; Consumption, Alcohol; Drinking, Alcohol;
Related Mesh Headings: Alcoholism; Temperance;
Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; blood; cerebrospinal fluid; drug therapy; economics; epidemiology; ethnology; genetics; history; immunology; legislation & jurisprudence; metabolism; mortality; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; therapy; trends; urine;
Tree Number: F01.145.317.269;
History Note: 69
Technical Notes: drunkenness = ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION but binge drinking & acute alcohol intox = ETHANOL /pois; chronic alcohol consumption = ALCOHOLISM; TEMPERANCE is available for "abstinence from alcohol" but do not confuse with alcohol withdrawal (see note under ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL DELIRIUM & SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME)