Drinking in a context of emotional pain as a means of coping for relief from stress, tension, and worries may be a self-medicating strategy that depressed drinkers have adopted. This strategy may not be perceived as inappropriate or ineffective as immediate negative outcomes have not yet occurred. As these students are followed over the next […]
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Excessive alcohol consumption is a leading cause of illness worldwide (Shield et al., 2013) and has a significant impact on the health of millions people. The impact of excessive alcohol consumption results in increased healthcare costs, loss of productivity, alcohol-related crime (including assault and sexual abuse), and motor vehicle accidents. “The fact that participants experienced […]
Moderate or conditional recommendations are often based on lower-certainty evidence that shows benefits more closely balanced with harms or variability in patient preferences. Implementation is often determined by variation in individual clinical situations—including disease factors, patient preferences and characteristics, and resource use—and usually involves a shared decision-making process. Existing guidelines on relevant topics were listed […]
People like to believe that they are logical, consistent, and good at making decisions. Cognitive dissonance can interfere with the perceptions they hold about themselves and their abilities, which is why it can often feel so uncomfortable and unpleasant. By Neha KashyapKashyap is a New York-based health journalist with a bachelor’s degree in print journalism […]
Males reported drinking significantly more than females, but they did so over a significantly longer period of time. As a result, estimated peak BACs during the night of the last blackout were similar for males (0.30 percent) and females (0.35 percent). As Goodwin observed in his work with alcoholics (1969b), fragmentary blackouts occurred far more […]
In the 1970s, the pioneering work of a small number of alcohol researchers began to challenge the existing abstinence-based paradigm in AUD treatment research. They found that their controlled drinking intervention produced significantly better outcomes compared to usual treatment, and that about a quarter of the individuals in this condition maintained controlled drinking for one […]