The formal diagnosis for someone with a problematic relationship with alcohol is alcohol use disorder. To diagnose this condition, a professional would investigate the most important factorslike: Drinking more often and in larger amounts than intended ...
Alcohol is a major risk factor for global burden of disease, and alcohol use disorders make up a considerable portion of this burden. Up to now, prevalence of alcohol use disorders has been estimated based on general population surveys with the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) ...
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Another study that explored the impact of alcohol consumption on facial recognition found that individuals with alcohol use disorder exhibited a bias toward misidentifying emotional facial expressions as hostile or disgusted (Freeman et al., 2018). Interestingly, those in the control grou...
This paper examined discrepancies between children's self-perceptions of the riskiness of alcohol use versus their perceptions of the riskiness of alcohol use for other children, and whether these discrepancies predicted children's future alcohol use. Participants included 234 children (=11years, 45.3...
Most people would refer to it as alcohol abuse, alcohol dependence, and the standard term is, alcoholism. Therefore, alcohol use disorder is a brain ailment and can either be mild or severe. Because when there's a continuous intake of alcohol, the brain has lifelong changes that augment the...
But not all alcohol is equal when it comes to disinfecting, even though medical professionals have used forms of alcohol to sterilize and clean for hundreds of years. The truth is, you need to use a particular kind of alcohol to truly disinfect germs that can spread infection and disease. ...
Background/Aims: This study compares illegal drug and alcohol use behaviors between medical and nonmedical users of prescription opioids (PO) and nonmedical users with distinct motives to use. Method: An ethically approved cross-sectional study (2010) was conducted on a representative sample of pri...
It’s also often said that alcohol shuts down your body’s fat-burning engine. This is technically true but a little misleading. All it really means is that your body will use the by-products of alcohol metabolism as fuel preferentially. Over the long haul, however, this doesn’t have mu...
It is in this context that this study aimed to investigate the association between alcohol consumption, tobacco use and raised glycemia with oral hygiene practices among Burkinabè adults, using data from the first national population-based study. 2. Methods Study design and settings: A secondary ...