Routine data from the Dutch Transition project on 236 027 episodes of care collected by 54 family physicians (FPs) for 93 297 patient years in their listed practices and classified with the International Classification of Primary Care, were used to analyse chronic alcohol abuse episodes of care in Dutch family practices. Data on 332 episodes are presented. In a subsample with a 4-year registrat...

OBJECTIVES To provide a review of published literature regarding genetic polymorphism of serotonin transporter gene, named as 5-HTTLPR, and its potential role as a susceptibility marker for ethanol abuse in childhood and adolescence. METHODS A literature review of several databases was conducted with the following keywords: 5-HTTLPR, children or adolescents or teenagers, susceptibility, alcoh...

OBJECTIVE To assess the association between alcohol abuse during gestation and low birth weight. METHODS Cross-sectional, population-based nested study from a cohort of 957 pregnant women who received prenatal assistance through Sistema Único de Saúde (National Health System) in the city of Pelotas, Southern Brazil, and delivered their babies between September 2007 and September 2008. The mot...

Estimates of the total costs of substance abuse in the United States, including productivity and healthand crime-related costs, exceed $600 billion annually (approximately $181 billion for illicit drugs, $193 billion for tobacco, and $235 billion for alcohol). Twenty-five percent of all US deaths can be attributed to drug abuse. Alcohol, the most commonly used drug among American teenagers, kil...

B on figures from national household surveys, researchers estimate that about 70 percent of the adult population consume some alcohol and that approximately 10 to 20 percent are alcohol abusers (re­ viewed in Sobell and Sobell 1993). (In this article, the term “alcohol abuser” refers to all people whose alcohol consumption has led to medical, psychological, or social problems and therefore enco...

 To understand the metabolic problems of patients who have abused alcohol;  To know the causes of malnutrition in patients who have abused alcohol;  To identify specific nutritional deficiencies in patients who have abused alcohol;  To know the specific risk of thiamine deficiency in patients who have abused alcohol;  To learn the best approaches to nutritional support in patients who have...

OBJECTIVE To examine the extent to which peer drug use and sibling drug use predict alcohol abuse/dependence disorder status and the use of drugs other than alcohol among school-based youth in Mexico. METHODS Data were collected on 1 203 middle and high school students in northern Mexico in May 1998. Participation was voluntary, and responses were confidential. Logistic regression analyses es...

Brain injury survivors, particularly those injured early in life are very likely to abuse drugs and alcohol later in life. Alcohol abuse following traumatic brain injury (TBI) is associated with poorer rehabilitation outcomes and a greatly increased chance of suffering future head trauma. Thus, substance abuse among persons with brain injury reduces the chances for positive long-term outcomes a...