Exploring psychological benefits associated with moderate alcohol use: a necessary corrective to assessments of drinking outcomes?

S Peele, A Brodsky - Drug and alcohol dependence, 2000 - Elsevier
… identify positive psychological concomitants of moderate alcoholsides hardly seem to notice
each other; they do not cross-cite or seem to know important developments in the other side.…

What do we know about beneficial consequences of moderate alcohol consumption on social and physical well-being? A critical review of the recent literature

DJ Pittman - Contemporary Drug Problems, 1996 - journals.sagepub.com
… The converse side of alcohol's effect, as a reducer of anxiety, needs to be researched in
terms of the role it plays in antisocial behavior. Controlled experimental studies would be most …

The beneficial side of moderate alcohol use.

TB Turner, VL Bennett, H Hernandez - The Johns Hopkins Medical …, 1981 - europepmc.org
… Accumulating data indicate that the moderate use of alcoholic … ethanol intake, below which
adverse effects on health are rarely observed, the following upper limits of moderate drinking

Moderate alcohol consumption: the gentle face of Janus

DM Goldberg, GJ Soleas, M Levesque - Clinical Biochemistry, 1999 - Elsevier
… Conclusions: A number of other diseases appear to be beneficially modulated by moderate
alcohol consumption based on epidemiologic surveys and, in some instances, experimental …

Moderate alcohol consumption and cognitive risk

EJ Neafsey, MA Collins - Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
… The benefit of moderate drinking applied to all forms of dementia (dementia unspecified, …
plots on the left-hand side of the figures. On the right-hand side of the figures are found plots of …

The good, the bad, and the ugly with alcohol use and abuse on the heart

RK Walker, VM Cousins, NA Umoh… - Alcoholism: Clinical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… light-to-moderate alcohol consumption may have a favorable effect on the … moderate alcohol
consumption. Plasma fibrinogen concentrations are decreased by moderate alcohol intake (…

Are the cardiac effects of alcohol good, bad, or neither?

DP Leong - 2019 - academic.oup.com
… in other populations with systolic left ventricular dysfunction (eg analyses from SOLVD)
suggest that low-moderate alcohol consumption in these groups is associated with better …

[PDF][PDF] Evidence about health effects of “moderatealcohol consumption

S Andréasson, T Chikritzhs, FHH Dangardt… - Alcohol and …, 2014 - researchgate.net
moderate alcohol use is an indicator of positive health and social wellbeing. The studies
that find beneficial … Furthermore, the many side effects of alcohol, if viewed as a pharmaceutical, …

Functional benefits of (modest) alcohol consumption

RIM Dunbar, J Launay, R Wlodarski… - … human behavior and …, 2017 - Springer
… that its only benefit is hedonic. In contrast, we suggest that alcohol consumption was adopted
… Although there is considerable evidence that moderate alcohol consumption can enhance …

A healthy dose of scepticism: four good reasons to think again about protective effects of alcohol on coronary heart disease

T Chikritzhs, K Fillmore, T Stockwell - Drug and alcohol review, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… There was once a time when sceptics of the purported beneficial effect of moderate alcohol
consumption on coronary heart disease (CHD) were relegated to the ranks of ‘doubters of …