BACKGROUND Road-traffic injury (RTI) is a major public-health concern worldwide. However, the effectiveness of laws criminalizing drunk driving on the improvement of road safety in China is not known. METHODS We collected daily aggregate data on RTIs from the Guangzhou First-Aid Service Command Center from 2009 to 2012. We performed an interrupted time-series analysis to evaluate the change i...

The article presents for the first time the biography of E.I. Deichman, one of leaders of anti-alcoholic movement. The input of E.I. Deichman into struggle with drunkenness and alcoholism in the 1920s is concertized.

BACKGROUND Risks associated with parental separation have received limited attention in research on children of parents with substance use disorders. We examined early substance involvement as a function of parental separation during childhood and parental alcohol and cannabis dependence. METHOD Data were drawn from 1318 adolescent offspring of monozygotic (MZ) or dizygotic (DZ) Australian tw...

Some researchers have found that day-of-injury alcohol intoxication is associated with worse outcome following traumatic brain injury (TBI). The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of day-of-injury intoxication on the acute neuropsychological outcome from TBI. Participants were 36 patients with TBI (18 sober, 18 intoxicated) matched on injury severity characteristics and demographic...

BACKGROUND This study assesses racial/ethnic disparities in negative social consequences of drinking and alcohol dependence symptoms among white, black, and Hispanic Americans. We examine whether and how disparities relate to heavy alcohol consumption and pattern, and the extent to which social disadvantage (poverty, unfair treatment, and racial/ethnic stigma) accounts for observed disparities....

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to analyse the validity of clinical assessment of alcohol intoxication (ICD-10 Y91) compared with estimated blood alcohol concentration (BAC) using a breath analyser (ICD-10 Y90) among patients in the emergency room (ER). METHODS Representative samples of ER patients reporting within six hours of injury (n = 4798) from 12 countries comprising the WHO C...

AIM To evaluate prior hospital contacts with alcohol problems in patients with alcoholic liver cirrhosis and pancreatitis. METHODS This was a register-based study of all patients diagnosed with alcoholic liver cirrhosis or pancreatitis during 2008-2012 in Denmark. Hospital contacts with alcohol problems (intoxication, harmful use, or dependence) in the 10-year period preceding the diagnosis o...

The article by van Oorsouw and colleagues presents interesting survey and experimental data, exploring the question of whether alcohol blackouts occur frequently or are used primarily as an excuse to minimize legal responsibility. The authors concluded that the results of their analysis indicated that blackouts during serious misbehavior are often reported outside the court, but the denial or c...