This section is dedicated to psychiatric, medical, and social problems associated with alcohol and drug abuse
Sher L.Division of Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.Acta Psychiatr Scand. 2006 Jan;113(1):13-22. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this paper was to provide a clinical review of the literature on the relation of alcoholism to suicidal behavior. METHOD: Studies of alcoholism and suicidal behavior available in MEDLINE, Institute for Scientific Information […]
Behnken MP, Le YC, Temple JR, Berenson AB.Iowa State University, United States.Addict Behav. 2009 Dec 21. Although sexual assault victimization has been shown to predict suicidality, little is known about the mechanisms linking these two factors. Using cross-sectional data (N=6364) from the 2007 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, binge drinking significantly mediated the relationship between forced […]
Sellman D, Connor J, Robinson G, Jackson R.Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand.N Z Med J. 2009 Sep 25;122(1303):97-101. Doctors have been promoting alcohol as a health tonic for a very long time. The last 30 years has seen the accumulation of a considerable medical literature investigating the potential role of […]
Mahfoud Y, Talih F, Streem D, Budur K.Dr. Mahfoud is an Addiction Psychiatry Fellow from the Department of Psychiatry, University Hospitals, Cleveland, Ohio.Psychiatry (Edgmont). 2009 Sep;6(9):38-42. Substance abuse is a major public health problem with high morbidity and mortality. Comorbid disorders are suspected to cause a high relapse rate. Subjects with sleep disorders tend to […]
Sher L, Oquendo MA, Richardson-Vejlgaard R, Makhija NM, Posner K, Mann JJ, Stanley BH.Department of Psychiatry, Division of Molecular Imaging and Neuropathology, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.J Psychiatr Res. 2009 Jul;43(10):901-5. Acute alcohol use is an important risk factor for attempted and completed suicide. We evaluated the effect of […]
Acupuncture has been used for the treatment of alcohol and drug use disorders for many years. Recently, scientists from the Department of Neuropsychiatry, Hospital of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, reviewed studies of the use of acupuncture for the treatment of alcohol dependence.
Kuntsche E, Stewart SH.Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems, Switzerland. J Health Psychol. 2009 May. A structural equation model was estimated based on a Swiss national sample of 5649 12- to 18-year-olds to test whether individual drinking motives mediate the link between classmates’ motives and individual alcohol use. Results showed that […]
H. Richardson1, 3; L. E. O’Dell2; S. Y. Lee3; G. F. Koob1; C. L. Rivier3 1. Neuropharmacology, CVN-7, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA. 2. Psychology, University of Texas, El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA. 3. Clayton Laboratories for Peptide Biology, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA. Alcohol is a potent modulator […]
W. A. Williams1; R. E. Carson3; A. Heinz2; J. Bjork5; M. Enoch4; C. Geyer5; R. Rawlings5; D. Hommer5; D. Goldman4; P. Herscovitch6 1. Psychiatry, Yale Univ, New Haven, CT, USA. 2. Psychiatry, Humboldt Univ, Berlin, Germany. 3. PET Center, Yale Univ, New Haven, CT, USA. 4. Lab Neurogenetics, NIAAA, Bethesda, MD, USA. 5. Lab Clinical […]
J. D. Higley1; C. S. Barr1; S. J. Suomi2 1. Section of Primate Models of Psychopathology, LCTS, NIH, NIAAA Intramural, Poolesville, MD, USA. 2. Laboratory of Comparative Ethology, NICHD, Intramural, Poolesville, MD, USA. A relationship between alcohol intake and aggressive behavior has been demonstrated in a variety of studies. Primary among the factors that contribute […]
