This document was published by the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA) as an
aid to understanding and interpreting the detailed report of The Costs of Substance Abuse in …

Many efforts to prevent alcohol-related harm are aimed at reducing risk drinking. This article
outlines the many conceptual and methodological challenges to defining risk drinking. It …

Objetivo: analizar el consumo de alcohol en estudiantes universitarios y los problemas
psicosociales asociados. Método: estudio descriptivo correlacional, que incluyó 396 …

Background There is a west–east mortality gradient in Europe, more pronounced in men.
The objective of this article was to quantify the contribution of alcohol use to the gap in …

This course develops a critical understanding of contemporary psychological approaches to
addiction. Students are introduced to psychological theories of addiction from the fields of …

Mendelian randomization, the use of common polymorphisms as surrogates for measuring
exposure levels in epidemiologic studies, provides one method of assessing the causal …

Aims To estimate age, period, cohort and other demographic influences on heavy alcohol
consumption and trajectories of heavy drinking in American adults. Design Prospective …

Design. The analysis follows the World Health Organization comparative risk assessment
(CRA) methodology. Populationattributable fractions (I'AFs) calculated from modelled …

Background: Alcohol consumption is high in France. Aim: Estimation of alcohol-attributable
mortality in France by sex, age and dose, for year 2009. Method: We combined survey and …

OBJECTIVES: To describe patterns of alcohol consumption in the Americas, to estimate the
burden of disease attributable to alcohol in the year 2000, and to suggest implications for …