Alcohol use and misuse within the military: a review

E Jones, NT Fear - International review of psychiatry, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Traditionally alcohol has been used by the military to cope with the intense stress of battle
but also as a way of mediating the transition from the heightened experience of combat to …

Military service and alcohol use: a systematic narrative review

AK Osborne, G Wilson-Menzfeld, G McGill… - Occupational …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background Despite research highlighting the role of alcohol in military life, specifically in
relation to mental health and certain combat experiences, there is no synthesised evidence …

The mental health of fire-fighters: An examination of the impact of repeated trauma exposure

SB Harvey, JS Milligan-Saville… - Australian & New …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: Emergency workers, such as fire-fighters, are routinely exposed to potentially
traumatic events. While a number of studies have examined the occurrence of post-traumatic …

Alcohol use in the military: associations with health and wellbeing

M Waller, ACL McGuire, AJ Dobson - Substance abuse treatment …, 2015 - Springer
Background This study assessed the extent to which alcohol consumption in a military group
differed from the general population, and how alcohol affected the military group's health …

Disentangling the symptom‐level nuances in comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder and problematic alcohol use in Northern Irish military veterans: A network …

E McGlinchey, J Ross, D Murphy… - … of Traumatic Stress, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alcohol use are highly prevalent among military
veteran populations. Several theories have been proposed to account for the comorbidity …

The prevalence of hazardous and harmful alcohol use across trauma-exposed occupations: A meta-analysis and meta-regression

P Irizar, JA Puddephatt, SH Gage, V Fallon… - Drug and alcohol …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Trauma exposure is associated with hazardous and/or harmful alcohol use.
Occupational groups frequently exposed to trauma may be at risk of alcohol harm. This meta …

Posttraumatic stress disorder and hypertension in Australian veterans of the 1991 Gulf War

M Abouzeid, HL Kelsall, AB Forbes, MR Sim… - Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: Military veterans experience a high prevalence of psychopathologies such as
posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Relationships between physical and psychological …

Exploring patterns of alcohol misuse in treatment-seeking UK veterans: A cross-sectional study

D Murphy, D Turgoose - Addictive Behaviors, 2019 - Elsevier
Aims To explore patterns of alcohol misuse in a sample of treatment-seeking veterans
compared to the UK Armed Forces personnel population and the general public …

[HTML][HTML] The DrinksRation smartphone app for modifying alcohol use behaviors in UK military service personnel at risk of alcohol-related harm: protocol for a …

K King, D Leightley, N Greenberg… - JMIR research …, 2023 - researchprotocols.org
Background Consumption of alcohol is synonymous with military populations, and studies
have shown that serving personnel drink more than age-and sex-matched civilian …

English police officers' alcohol consumption and links with organisational job stressors

J Houdmont, L Jachens - The Police Journal, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This study describes alcohol consumption and examines associations with organisational
job stressors among female (n= 493) and male (n= 707) English police officers. Significantly …