Safetylit: Alcohol and Other Drugshttp://www.safetylit.org/Welcome to SafetyLit, the online source for recent research about injury prevention.A Profile of Concurrent Alcohol and Alcohol-Interactive Prescription Drug Use in the US Population. - Jalbert JJ, Quilliam BJ, Lapane KL. Alcohol and Other Drugshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_88326_1BACKGROUND: The risk of adverse events among alcohol-interactive medication users can occur with one standard alcoholic drink. Research on the extent to which this occurs is scant. OBJECTIVE: To examine the prevalence and correlates of concurrent alcohol a...Alcohol and fatal accidents in the United States-A time series analysis for 1950-2002. - Ramstedt M. Alcohol and Other Drugshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_88628_1AIMS: To estimate the association between per capita alcohol consumption and fatal accidents in the United States and to compare the outcome with findings from Europe and Canada. DATA AND METHOD: Yearly data on fatal accidents by gender and age were analys...Alcohol outcome expectancies and drinking motives mediate the association between sensation seeking and alcohol use among adolescents. - Urban R, Kökönyei G, Demetrovics Z. Alcohol and Other Drugshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_88801_1Sensation seeking is a strong correlate of alcohol consumption among young people, yet the research on mediators of this association is mainly limited to English-speaking adolescents. The proposed model of the present study includes antecedent variables (s...Alcohol-attributable fraction for injury in the U.S. general population: data from the 2005 National Alcohol Survey. - Cherpitel CJ, Ye Y. Alcohol and Other Drugshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_88667_1Objective: Although studies of patients seen in emergency department (ED) settings have documented a strong association of alcohol with injury, such patients are not necessarily representative of the larger population, and less is known of alcohol's associ...Correspondence Between Secular Changes in Alcohol Dependence and Age of Drinking Onset Among Women in the United States. - Grucza RA, Norberg K, Bucholz KK, Bierut LJ. Alcohol and Other Drugshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_88332_1Background: Several lines of evidence suggest that the lifetime prevalence of alcohol dependence among women has increased in recent decades, but has not risen significantly for men. Early age at onset of drinking (AOD) is strongly correlated with risk for...Deleterious Effect of Cirrhosis on Outcomes After Motor Vehicle Crashes Using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample. - Bajaj JS, Ananthakrishnan AN, McGinley EL, Hoffmann RG, Brasel KJ. Alcohol and Other Drugshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_88874_1OBJECTIVES: Alcohol abuse and minimal hepatic encephalopathy may predispose cirrhotics to a higher motor vehicle crash (MVC) rate. Cirrhotics have poor post-trauma outcomes on small-scale studies. The aim was to examine the effect of cirrhosis on mortality...Drink driving and the patterns and context of drinking among New Zealand adolescents. - Tin ST, Ameratunga S, Robinson E, Crengle S, Schaaf D, Watson P. Alcohol and Other Drugshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_88799_1Aim: To examine the association between drink driving and the patterns and locations of usual drinking among New Zealand adolescents. Methods: This is a secondary analysis of data from a nationally representative youth health survey, the sampling frame for...Drinking likelihood, alcohol problems, and peer influence among first-year college students. - Talbott LL, Martin RJ, Usdan SL, Leeper JD, Umstattd MR, Cremeens JL, Geiger BF. Alcohol and Other Drugshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_88499_1Excessive alcohol consumption is a predominant health concern on college campuses in the United States. A stepwise multiple regression analysis was used to examine the predictive values of demographic factors in relation to alcohol subscales (Drinking Cont...Emergency Department Detection of Adolescents With a History of Alcohol Abuse and Alcohol Problems. - Sindelar-Manning H, Lewander W, Chun T, Barnett N, Spirito A. Alcohol and Other Drugshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_88505_1OBJECTIVE:: To compare the characteristics of adolescents with and without a history of problematic alcohol use, who are treated in the emergency department (ED) for an alcohol-related problem. METHODS:: Three hundred seventeen adolescents presenting to th...Measuring the year consumption of alcohol: the development of a questionnaire. - Jansen H, Lahaut V, Garretsen H, van de Mheen D. Alcohol and Other Drugshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_88330_1Most general alcohol consumption population surveys are meant to represent the year consumption, although they actually ask only for habitual drinking and/or frequencies and quantities of binge drinking in the past months. These surveys typically cover abo...Referrals for psychiatric examination of driving ability - a comparison of illicit drugs and alcohol. - Haberfellner EM. Alcohol and Other Drugshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_88631_1Introduction: In Austria vehicle drivers impaired by drugs or alcohol have to undergo a psychiatric examination. Drivers who are not accused for impaired driving have to undergo a psychiatric examination too if they are suspected to be alcohol - or drug ad...Screening and brief interventions for alcohol: attitudes, knowledge and experience of community pharmacists in Auckland, New Zealand. - Sheridan J, Wheeler A, Ju-Hsing Chen L, Chen-Yun Huang A, Nga-Yee Leung I, Yow-Chyi Tien K. Alcohol and Other Drugshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_88501_1INTRODUCTION: Screening and brief intervention (SBI) for alcohol consumption in primary care have been shown to be effective in reducing drinking. This role has not been taken up by community pharmacists. This study aimed to explore attitudes, knowledge, b...Secular Trends in Poisonings Leading to Hospital Admission among Finnish Children and Adolescents between 1971 and 2005. - Kivistö JE, Mattila VM, Arvola T, Paavola M, Parkkari J. Alcohol and Other Drugshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_88825_1OBJECTIVE: To investigate the secular trends in childhood poisonings leading to hospitalization in Finland. STUDY DESIGN: All children and adolescents age 0 to 19 years hospitalized in Finland with the primary diagnosis of poisoning between 1971 and 2005 w...Seeking refuge from violence in street-based drug schemes: Women's experiences in North America's first supervised injection facility. - Kerr T, Fairbairn N, Small W, Shannon K, Wood E. Alcohol and Other Drugshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_88427_1Supervised injection facilities are a form of micro-environmental intervention that aim to address various harms associated with injection drug use. Given the numerous threats faced by women who inject drugs and are street-involved, including heightened ri...The relationship of underage drinking laws to reductions in drinking drivers in fatal crashes in the United States. - Fell JC, Fisher DA, Voas RB, Blackman K, Tippetts AS. Alcohol and Other Drugshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_88607_1This study reports on an effort to evaluate and interrelate the existence and strength of two core laws and 14 expanded laws designed to (a) control the sales of alcohol, (b) prevent possession and consumption of alcohol, and (c) prevent alcohol impaired d...Validation of the 30-day version of the brief young adult alcohol consequences questionnaire for use in longitudinal studies. - Kahler CW, Hustad J, Barnett NP, Strong DR, Borsari B. Alcohol and Other Drugshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_88663_1ABSTRACT. Objective: The Brief Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire (B-YAACQ) was developed using item response modeling to provide a brief and readily interpretable measure of negative alcohol consequences over the past year among college studen...What we have learned from the Harvard School of Public Health college alcohol study: focusing attention on college student alcohol consumption and the environmental conditions that promote it. - Wechsler H, Nelson TF. Alcohol and Other Drugshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_88669_1ABSTRACT. The Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study surveyed students at a nationally representative sample of 4-year colleges in the United States four times between 1993 and 2001. More than 50,000 students at 120 colleges took part in the...