Alcoholism represents one of the most serious health problems in modern industrialized
society. In spite of persistent research efforts and preventive initiatives the main problems …

A random sample of 200 men and 200 women taken from the general population as well as
subsamples of 31 male and 17 female excessive social drinkers were investigated with …

In an attempt to relate “moderate drinking” to “mental health,” inadequacies of definition for
both terms become apparent. Moderate drinking can be variously defined by a certain …

Alcohol, in striking contrast to tobacco and illicit drugs, is linked to an extensively
documented J-shaped doseeffect curve, with regular moderate consumption reducing …

Objective: To investigate the long-term effects of the consumption of alcohol on mortality and
morbidity. Method: A sample of 32,185 (50.5% female) individuals was randomly selected …

This cross-sectional analysis examined associations between alcohol intake and subjective
health in a random sample (n= 6, 040) drawn from the general population aged 25–64 years …

We have reviewed 156 papers which provided sufficient information to relate individual
alcohol consumption to risk for a variety of physical damage. Overall, there was evidence for …

Alcohol consumption has been linked with considerable mortality, and reduction of drinking,
especially of heavy drinking, has been suggested as one of the main measures to reduce …

Aims The preventive paradox prevails if the majority of alcohol problems accrue to the lesser‐
drinking majority of population, not to heavy drinkers. Evidence for the paradox has been …

Alcoholic beverages can be viewed from a number of perspectives. To a market economist,
beer, wine, spirits and other alcoholic beverages are one more category of consumer …