Moderation by age and college status was also tested. RESULTS :2020 was associated with (1) downward deviation in 30-day (young and middle adults) and binge drinking (young adults) prevalence; (2) upward deviation in daily drinking prevalence (middle adults); (3) among drinkers, upward ...
shows that moderate drinkers are no more likely to become infected with such diseases than those who do not drink. The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted some countries to introduce new restrictions and even bans on sale and service of alcohol during closings and lockdowns. Here are some ...
Jackson KM, Merrill JE, Stevens AK, Hayes KL, White HR. Changes in alcohol use and drinking context due to the COVID-19 pandemic: a multimethod study of college student drinkers.Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2021;45(4):752–764. doi:10.1111/acer.14574. ...
Compared to stable drinkers (32% of sample), a higher proportion of participants who increased drinking alcohol also reported anxiety or depression (45% vs. 26%), moderate to severe emotional distress (61% vs. 37%) and viewing Covid-19 as a threat to their community (67% vs. 55%). ...
Today, disease theory categorises alcohol abuse as a brain disease that alters a persons thought process, decision making, and feelings, created by the physiological differences between drinkers and non-drinkers, through genetics or the effects of alcohol [20]. However, disease theory has been cons...
Thus, there is an emergence of drinkers at risk of establishing potentially dangerous patterns of alcohol consumption during lockdown. In the UK, which went into lockdown after a national announcement by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on March 22nd 2020, data from the Office for National Statistics...
Community programming in mental health care planning: a case study at the drinkers lounge in Vancouver, BC. 2019. Wettlaufer A, Pauly B, Brown M, Chow C, Vallance K, Kauppi C, et al. Towards alcohol harm reduction: results from an evaluation of a Canadian Managed Alcohol Program. Victoria...
This comes as daily marijuana users now outnumber daily drinkers for the first time ever, according to a new report from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. The change in preference is largely being driven by young people. Of people aged 18 to 24, 69% prefer marijuana to alcohol,...
The study did not examine the reasons behind the link between a decrease in drinking and increase in stress and anxiety, but Avery said one possibility is that these were social drinkers who were missing out on after-work happy hours and other occasions where they drank with friends. ...
Drinkers who reported having a diagnosed mental health condition (typically depression or anxiety) were more likely to report increasing their drinking compared to February, before COVID-19 restrictions. Australians in our sample who increased drinking noted worse outcomes forphysical health(55%), menta...