Alcohol and drugs of abuse consumption in young adults, including women of childbearing age, has experienced significant increase over the past two decades. The use of questionnaires as the only measure to investigate prenatal alcohol and drugs of abuse exposure underestimates the real prevalence of exposure and could mislead to wrong conclusions. Therefore, the aim of this article was to compa...

Alcohol abuse is more severe among Type B alcoholics than among those who are Type A. Type B alcoholism appears to be more related to hereditary factors than Type A and to be more likely to occur among men than women. Type Bs are more impulsive and tend to have a stronger family history of alcohol abuse; they have more childhood conduct problems and more severe alcohol dependence, polydrug abus...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of alcohol abuse/dependence and identify associated factors among demographic, family, socioeconomic and mental health variables. METHODS A household survey was carried out in the urban area of Campinas, southeastern Brazil, in 2003. A total of 515 subjects, aged 14 years or more were randomly selected using a stratified cluster sample. The Self-Report Que...

BACKGROUND Alcohol abuse results in problems on various levels in society. In terms of health, alcohol abuse is not only an important risk factor for chronic disease, but it is also related to injuries. Social harms which can be related to drinking include interpersonal problems, work problems, violent and other crimes. The scope of societal costs related to alcohol abuse in principle should be...

A range of family-related risk factors have been linked to adolescent alcohol problems and predict escalation of use and alcohol dependence into adulthood. Family-based interventions have strong research and clinical traditions in the treatment of adult alcoholism and adolescent drug abuse, but have been infrequently applied to the unique problems of adolescent alcohol abuse and dependence. Res...

Childhood maltreatment increases the risk of subsequent depression, anxiety and alcohol abuse, but the rate of resilient victims is unknown. Here, we investigated the rate of victims that do not suffer from clinical levels of these problems after severe maltreatment in a population-based sample of 10980 adult participants. Compared to men, women reported more severe emotional and sexual abuse, ...

A advertising is a public health problem if it increases alcohol abuse. Yet despite considerable and well­documented levels of both alcohol ad­ vertising and alcohol abuse, the link between the two remains controversial. According to Leading National Advertisers (LNA) (1995), the alcoholic beverage indus­ try spent more than $1 billion in 1994 for traditional me­ dia advertising (i.e., broadcas...