Alcoholism - Prevention & control
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Reasons for abstaining or limiting drinking: a developmental perspective.

30 Aug 2009 The cross-sectional and longitudinal relations between reasons for abstaining or limiting drinking (RALD) and abstention were examined in a 16-year longitudinal study (N = 489) of college students with and without a family history of alcohol ... Read more...

Reliability and validity of the alcohol consequences expectations scale.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVES: To examine the reliability and validity of a new measure of alcohol outcome expectations for college students, the Alcohol Consequences Expectations Scale (ACES). METHODS: College students (N=169) completed the ACES and several other ... Read more...

A randomized clinical trial evaluating a combined alcohol intervention for high-risk college students.

29 Jun 2009 OBJECTIVE: The current study is a multisite randomized alcohol prevention trial to evaluate the efficacy of both a parenting handbook intervention and the Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS) intervention, alone and ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Alcoholism - Prevention & control'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Alcohol misuse among the elderly: an opportunity for prevention. 29 Sep 2009
• Australia considers string of preventive health measures. 17 Sep 2009
• Reducing harm from alcohol: what about unrecorded products? 17 Sep 2009
• Reasons for abstaining or limiting drinking: a developmental perspective. 30 Aug 2009
• Reliability and validity of the alcohol consequences expectations scale. 30 Aug 2009
• Specialist alcohol treatment services fail to meet need in Scotland. 8 Aug 2009
• Friday night. 29 Jun 2009
• [Mind-body group therapies for persons having difficulty with alcohol] 29 Jun 2009
• A randomized clinical trial evaluating a combined alcohol intervention for high-risk college students. 29 Jun 2009
• Common ground: an investigation of environmental management alcohol prevention initiatives in a college community. 29 Jun 2009
• NIAAA's rapid response to college drinking problems initiative: reinforcing the use of evidence-based approaches in college alcohol prevention. 29 Jun 2009
• An evaluation of college online alcohol-policy information: 2007 compared with 2002. 29 Jun 2009
• Action needed to tackle a global drink problem. 25 Jun 2009
• Alcohol and harm reduction in Russia. 25 Jun 2009
• A case study in how harmful alcohol consumption can be. 25 Jun 2009
• Reducing harm from alcohol: call to action. 25 Jun 2009
• Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of policies and programmes to reduce the harm caused by alcohol. 25 Jun 2009
• Sally Casswell: champion for communities tackling alcohol. Interview by Kelly Morris. 25 Jun 2009
• Alcohol: a global health priority. 25 Jun 2009
• Predictors of alcohol and drug problems in rural African American women. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Alcoholism'

Definition: A primary, chronic disease with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations. The disease is often progressive and fatal. It is characterized by impaired control over drinking, preoccupation with the drug alcohol, use of alcohol despite adverse consequences, and distortions in thinking, most notably denial. Each of these symptoms may be continuous or periodic. (Morse & Flavin for the Joint Commission of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence and the American Society of Addiction Medicine to Study the Definition and Criteria for the Diagnosis of Alcoholism: in JAMA 1992;268:1012-4)

Descriptor UI: D000437

Alternative terms: Alcoholism; Alcoholic Intoxication, Chronic; Chronic Alcoholic Intoxication; Intoxication, Chronic Alcoholic; Alcohol Abuse; Abuse, Alcohol;

Related Mesh Headings: Alcohol Deterrents; Alcoholics Anonymous; Fetal Alcohol Syndrome; Psychoses, Alcoholic; Temperance;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C21.739.100.250; F03.900.100.350;

Technical Notes: human & animal; do not coord with CHRONIC DISEASE: alcoholism is presumed to be chronic; differentiate from ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION, being drunk, not chronic; acute alcoholic intox & binge drinking is ETHANOL /pois; /drug ther: consider also ALCOHOL DETERRENTS; consider also LIVER DISEASES, ALCOHOLIC & its specifics FATTY LIVER, ALCOHOLIC; HEPATITIS, ALCOHOLIC & LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; also PANCREATITIS, ALCOHOLIC; also CARDIOMYOPATHY, ALCOHOLIC; PSYCHOSES, ALCOHOLIC & FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; index other compl of alcoholism under ALCOHOLISM /compl (IM) + disease /etiol not /chem ind (IM); abstinence from alcohol in alcoholism: coord with TEMPERANCE (NIM); available is SKID ROW ALCOHOLICS see HOMELESS PERSONS but see note there