Rasha Abi Hana

Nature and Course of Clinician and Self-Rated Depressive Features in Persons with Alcohol Use Disorders: A Preliminary Prospective Study among Men Seeking Treatment

Shared by Rasha Abi Hana - 27 January 2023
Citation
Gopalakrishnan, U., Sarkar, S., Balhara, Y. P. S., & Lal, R. (2022). Nature and course of clinician- and self-rated depressive features in persons with alcohol use disorders: A preliminary prospective study among men seeking treatment Adiktologie, 22(3), 204–212. https://doi.org/10.35198/01-2022-003-0006
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INTRODUCTION: The trajectory and nature of depression in patients with alcohol use disorder as they enter treatment needs to be understood better. This study assessed the nature and course of depressive features among male patients with alcohol use disorder.

METHODS: Adult male patients with...

Edie

Health and cancer risks associated with low levels of alcohol consumption

Shared by Edie - 4 January 2023
Citation
Anderson, B. O., Berdzuli, N., Ilbawi, A., Kestel, D., Kluge, H. P., Krech, R., Mikkelsen, B., Neufeld, M., Poznyak, V., Rekve, D., Slama, S., Tello, J., & Ferreira-Borges, C. (2023). Health and cancer risks associated with low levels of alcohol consumption. The Lancet Public Health, 8(1), e6–e7. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(22)00317-6

"According to the latest WHO estimates, alcohol consumption contributed to 3 million deaths in 2016 globally and was responsible for 5·1% of the global burden of disease and injury."

This statement, published in the Lancet Public Health, outlines the latest statistics relating to the harm that...

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Edie

Young people and alcohol – What do we know and what can we do about it?

Shared by Edie - 26 November 2022
Event Date
Location:
Online

This webinar is hosted by the HSE Health and Wellbeing Alcohol Programme as part of EU Alcohol Awareness Week.

The panel of speakers will discuss the statistics around alcohol use among adolescents and young people in Ireland and the wider...

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Español
Rasha Abi Hana

Correction: Interdisciplinary collaboration in the treatment of alcohol use disorders in a general hospital department: a mixed-method study

Shared by Rasha Abi Hana - 17 November 2022
Citation
Kools, N., Dekker, G.G., Kaijen, B.A.P. et al. Correction: Interdisciplinary collaboration in the treatment of alcohol use disorders in a general hospital department: a mixed-method study. Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy 17, 64 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13011-022-00492-0
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Background

Interdisciplinary collaborations (i.e., where various disciplines work coordinated and interdependently toward shared goals) are stated to yield higher team effectiveness than multidisciplinary approaches (i.e., where various disciplines work in parallel within their professional...

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Urdu
Edie

Implementing Community-Level Policies to Prevent Alcohol Misuse

Shared by Edie - 15 November 2022
Format
Webinars
Created by
PTTC Network

This webinar highlights findings from SAMHSA’s guide titled, Implementing Community-Level Policies to Prevent Alcohol Misuse, which explores evidence-based, community-level strategies to prevent alcohol misuse.

Following an overview of the goals of SAMHSA’s Evidence-Based Resource Guide Series by SAMHSA’s Robert Vincent, MSEd, the guide’s subject matter expert, David Jernigan, PhD, of the Boston University School of Public Health, discusses the development of the guide.

Alicia Sparks, PhD, provides an overview of the framing of the guide and effective prevention policies that can be...

Edie

Opening Doors: ensuring access for all to alcohol support

Shared by Edie - 14 November 2022
Event Date
Location:
Online event, hosted from Cardiff, Wales, UK
United Kingdom

Opening doors

Ensuing access for all to alcohol support

Alcohol Change UK’s national online conference

Thursday 2 March 2023

People aren’t hard to reach. We just don’t always reach them.

At this one-day event we’ll be hearing...

Edie

Strategies to cut down drinking, alcohol consumption, and usual drinking frequency

Shared by Edie - 14 November 2022
Citation
Sasso, A., Hernández-Alava, M., Holmes, J., Field, M., Angus, C. and Meier, P., 2022. Strategies to cut down drinking, alcohol consumption, and usual drinking frequency: Evidence from a British online market research survey. Social Science & Medicine, 310, p.115280. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115280

Background

Relatively little is known about how risky drinkers attempt to moderate their drinking in the absence of specialist support. The broader literature has identified multiple potential strategies that people use to cope with temptation when trying to control health-risk behaviours. This...

Diana Crossan

Prevención del uso problemático de alcohol en contextos de ocio de la población juvenil

Shared by Diana Crossan - 11 November 2022
updated flyer 15 Nov 2022
Event Date
Location:
Santiago
Chile
On the occasion of World No Alcohol Day, ISSUP Chile invites you to participate in a webinar to share visions, strategies or opportunities to promote low-risk alcohol consumption in nighttime recreational spaces in our youngest population.
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Edie

Mental Health and Alcohol

Shared by Edie - 3 November 2022
Event Date
Location:
Online

Mental Health and Alcohol

November 21st 13:30-15:00

1) Exploring the changing patterns in mental health and alcohol use
Dr Praveetha Patalay
University College London

2) Understanding the associations between alcohol use and...

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Urdu
Rasha Abi Hana

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention in the Czech Republic: Study Design

Shared by Rasha Abi Hana - 6 October 2022
Citation
Fanta, M., & Barták, M. (2022). Cost-effectiveness analysis of alcohol screening and brief intervention in the Czech Republic. Study design. Adiktologie, 22(2), 132–139. https://doi.org/10.35198/01-2022-002-0004
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INTRODUCTION:

Screening and brief interventions (SBI) consist of a variety of activities aimed at people who engage in risky alcohol drinking, but who are not severely alcohol-dependent. Many studies have proved that SBI might serve as a very effective tool for reducing alcohol consumption and...

Edie

Women, men and alcohol: Why is gender important in alcohol control policies?

Shared by Edie - 4 October 2022
Event Date
Location:
Online

This webinar will raise awareness of the importance of gender when addressing alcohol-related harms, present current research evidence and share examples of how communities are addressing these issues.

Key questions to be addressed...

Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez

Working with alcohol prevention in occupational health services: “knowing how” is more important than “knowing that” – the WIRUS OHS study

Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez - 3 October 2022
Source: Thørrisen, M.M., Sadeghi, T., Bonsaksen, T. et al. Working with alcohol prevention in occupational health services: “knowing how” is more important than “knowing that” – the WIRUS OHS study. Addict Sci Clin Pract 17, 54 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13722-022-00335-0 Abstract Background...
Working with alcohol prevention in occupational health services “knowing how” is more important than “knowing that” – the WIRUS OHS study.pdf
Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez

Road traffic injury risk from alcohol and cannabis use among emergency department patients in Argentina

Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez - 6 September 2022
Source: Conde K, Peltzer RI, Gimenez PV, Salomón T, Suarez G, Monteiro M et al. Road traffic injury risk from alcohol and cannabis use among emergency department patients in Argentina. Rev Panam Salud Publica. 2022;46:e116. https://doi.org/10.26633/ RPSP.2022.116 ABSTRACT Objective. To report the...
Road traffic injury risk from alcohol and cannabis use among emergency department patients in Argentina.pdf
Edie

2022 Medical Council on Alcohol Symposium on Alcohol & Health

Shared by Edie - 6 September 2022
Event Date
Location:
London
United Kingdom

Programme 

09:00- Registration & Refreshments

09:40- Welcome

09:50- ‘Deaths from Alcohol-related Liver Disease: can we really make a difference?’, Prof Ewan Forrest

10:20 -'Minimum Unit Pricing: Qualitative study of the...

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Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez

Habitual Alcohol Intake and Risk of Atrial Fibrillation in Young Adults in Korea

Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez - 2 September 2022
Source: Han M, Lee S, Choi E, et al. Habitual Alcohol Intake and Risk of Atrial Fibrillation in Young Adults in Korea. JAMA Netw Open. 2022;5(9):e2229799. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.29799 Key Points Question Is high alcohol intake associated with the risk of atrial fibrillation in young adults...
Habitual Alcohol Intake and Risk of Atrial Fibrillation in Young Adults in Korea.pdf
Rasha Abi Hana

Update of Canada’s Low-Risk Alcohol Drinking Guidelines: Final Report for Public Consultation

Shared by Rasha Abi Hana - 30 August 2022
Published by
Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction
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Canada’s Low-Risk Alcohol Drinking Guidelines were originally published by CCSA in November 2011 and were the result of the work of alcohol research experts in Canada. Since then, substantial new research on the association between alcohol use and physical, mental and social harms has been completed...

Edie

No place for cheap alcohol: the potential value of minimum pricing for protecting lives

Shared by Edie - 10 August 2022
Published by
WHO
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Overview 

The WHO European Region has some of the highest levels of alcohol consumption and corresponding rates of alcohol-related harm in the world. Pricing policies and taxation are among the most effective measures that policy-makers can use to address these harms, but they remain...

Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez

Evaluación de tendencias en la mortalidad relacionada con el trastorno por consumo de alcohol en Estados Unidos, antes y durante la pandemia COVID-19

Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez - 9 August 2022

Evaluation of Trends in Alcohol Use Disorder–Related Mortality in the US Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Evaluación de tendencias en la mortalidad relacionada con el trastorno por consumo de alcohol en Estados Unidos, antes y durante la pandemia COVID-19

Yeo YH, He X, Ting P, et al. Evaluation of Trends in Alcohol Use Disorder–Related Mortality in the US Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Netw Open. 2022;5(5):e2210259. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.10259

Introduction

The US mortality rate has surged during the COVID-19...

Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez

Effectiveness of Varenicline and Cytisine for Alcohol Use Reduction Among People With HIV and Substance Use A Randomized Clinical Trial

Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez - 5 August 2022
Source: Tindle HA, Freiberg MS, Cheng DM, et al. Effectiveness of Varenicline and Cytisine for Alcohol Use Reduction Among People With HIV and Substance Use: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2022;5(8):e2225129. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.25129 Key Points Question Are varenicline...
Effectiveness of Varenicline and Cytisine for Alcohol Use Reduction Among People With HIV and Substance Use A Randomized Clinical Trial_0.pdf
Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez

Associations between moderate alcohol consumption, brain iron, and cognition in UK Biobank participants: Observational and mendelian randomization analyses

Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez - 27 July 2022
Source: Topiwala A, Wang C, Ebmeier KP, Burgess S, Bell S, et al. (2022) Associations between moderate alcohol consumption, brain iron, and cognition in UK Biobank participants: Observational and mendelian randomization analyses. PLOS Medicine 19(7): e1004039. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed...
Associations between moderate alcohol consumption, brain iron, and cognition in UK Biobank participants Observational and mendelian randomization analyses.pdf

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