Alcohol use among women of childbearing age is prevalent in the United States, with approximately 1 in 5 nonpregnant women reporting binge drinking (5 or more drinks on any one occasion) and 1 in 25 pregnant women reporting binge drinking. Alcohol use during pregnancy results in a spectrum of adverse outcomes known as fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is one of thes...

OBJECTIVES The average alcohol consumption per capita among Vietnamese adults has consistently increased. Although alcohol-related disorders have been extensively studied, there is a paucity of research shedding light on this issue among Internet users. The study aimed to examine the severity of alcohol-related disorders and other associated factors that might predispose individuals towards alc...

The concept Fetal Alcohol Syndrome [3] (FAS) refers to a set of birth defects [4] that occur in children born to mothers who abused alcohol during pregnancy [5]. The alcohol-induced defects include preand post-natal growth deficiencies, minor facial abnormalities, and damage to the developing central nervous system [6] (CNS). FAS is the most serious condition physicians group under the heading ...

BACKGROUND Very little information is available on the co-occurrence of different personality disorders (PDs) and alcohol and drug use disorders in the US population. OBJECTIVE To present national data on sex differences in the co-occurrence of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) alcohol and drug use disorders and 7 of the 10 DSM-IV PDs. DESIGN Fac...

BACKGROUND Cannabis use (CU) and disorders (CUD) are highly prevalent among adolescents and young adults. We aim to identify clinically meaningful latent classes of users of cannabis and other illegal substances with distinct problem profiles. METHODS N=3021 community subjects aged 14-24 at baseline were followed-up over a period ranging up to 10 years. Substance use (SU) and disorders (SUD) ...

The central amygdala (CeA) plays a central role in physiologic and behavioral responses to fearful stimuli, stressful stimuli, and drug-related stimuli. The CeA receives dense inputs from cortical regions, is the major output region of the amygdala, is primarily GABAergic (inhibitory), and expresses high levels of prostress and antistress peptides. The CeA is also a constituent region of a conc...

INTRODUCTION Alcohol use is apparently related to high prevalences of psychiatric comorbidity, although scientific studies focusing the problem among adolescents are still lacking. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the performance of adolescents with different patterns of alcohol use on screening instruments for psychiatric disorders. METHOD Forty-one adolescents seeking assistance for alcohol-related ...

A lcohol is consumed by millions of Americans / \ annually and poses a major health problem. JL \ . Alcohol-related problems plague an estimated 18 million adult Americans, of whom 10.6 million suffer from alcoholism. Experts estimate that 20-50% of all general hospital admissions, up to 50% of emergency room admissions, and 15% of office visits are alcohol-related and that alcohol is a factor ...

BACKGROUND Drinking alcohol during pregnancy may cause many health problems for the child, one of which is fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). Since FASD is incurable, actions meant to prevent the occurrence of the disability by targeting drinking women become more important. Epidemiological data on drinking among pregnant women, including prevalence and determinants/risk factors, is essent...

We studied the prevalence of harmful use of alcohol and alcohol related diseases in newly admitted patients in a general hospital. Two hundred and ninety seven patients were screened for alcohol use with Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT). Sixty one subjects (21%) had harmful pattern of alcohol consumption. Of these twenty eight patients (9.4%) had alcohol-related diseases, while...