alcohol

Family History of Alcoholism and the Human Brain Response to Oral Sucrose

Scientific article

12 December 2017

Abstract A heightened hedonic response to sweet tastes has been associated with increased alcohol preference and alcohol consumption in both humans and animals. The principal goal of this study was to examine blood oxygenation level...

“No Alcohol Is Recommended, but . . .”: Health Care Students’ Attitudes about Alcohol Consumption during Pregnancy

Scientific article

15 May 2017

Abstract Canadian findings suggest that health care providers require further training and education to support their work preventing fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). However, the knowledge and training of health care students in...

Health Care Students’ Attitudes about Alcohol Consumption during Pregnancy

Scientific article

14 November 2017

Abstract This article explores medical, midwifery, and nurse practitioner students’ attitudes about women who may consume alcohol throughout their pregnancies. Twenty-one health care students responded to a scenario-based vignette...

Unnecessary Emergency Medical Services Transport Associated with Alcohol Intoxication

Scientific article

27 June 2017

Abstract Objective This study investigated medically unnecessary emergency medical services (EMS) transportation by comparing non-intoxicated versus intoxicated patients who did not receive emergency department (ED) treatment but utilized...

Getting to Zero Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities: A Comprehensive Approach to a Persistent Problem

Book

17 January 2018

Alcohol-impaired driving remains the deadliest and costliest danger on U.S. roads today. Every day in the United States, 29 people die in an alcohol-impaired driving crash—one death every 49 minutes. After decades of progress, alcohol...

Medical Council on Alcohol 2017-18 Legacy Essay Competition

News

History & Latest information This prize started in 1985 when the Frowen family lost their son Micheal due to alcohol related health issues. Since then we have relied on the kindness of others to donate money to help fund this prize. We have...

Reducing Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities: Report Release

17 January 2018

Webinar

United States

On January 17, 2018 at 11:00am ET, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will release a report on how to accelerate progress to reduce alcohol-impaired driving fatalities. The report discusses which interventions are most promising to prevent injuries and deaths from alcohol-impaired driving as well as barriers to action and approaches to overcome them.

Effectiveness Bank Hot Topic: Measuring Alcohol-Related Harm: Politics and Science

Book

11 January 2018

At national level alcohol-related harm and especially the net cost of harm versus benefits are slippery concepts. Malleability and policy salience combine to make the estimates contested territory, seen as justifying reduced alcohol taxes...

The American Psychiatric Association Practice Guideline for the Pharmacological Treatment of Patients with Alcohol Use Disorder

Book

5 January 2018

Rationale The goal of this guideline is to improve the quality of care and treatment outcomes for patients with alcohol use disorder (AUD), as defined by DSM-5 (American Psychiatric Association 2013). The guideline focuses specifically on...

PROSPER Community-University Partnership Delivery System Effects on Substance Misuse

Scientific article

10 January 2013

Evaluated prevention programmes are typically implemented by research teams, raising questions over real-world applicability, but a groundbreaking US trial is said to have produced a ‘robust’ demonstration of the potential of a system in...