How COVID-19 shaped mental health: from infection to pandemic effects

BWJH Penninx, ME Benros, RS Klein, CH Vinkers - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has threatened global
mental health, both indirectly via disruptive societal changes and directly via …

A contextualized reinforcer pathology approach to addiction

SF Acuff, J MacKillop, JG Murphy - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2023 - nature.com
Behavioural economic accounts of addiction conceptualize harmful drug use as an operant
reinforcer pathology, emphasizing that a drug is consumed because of overvaluation of …

Alcohol and aging–an area of increasing concern

AM White, A Orosz, PA Powell, GF Koob - Alcohol, 2023 - Elsevier
Alcohol use is increasing among adults 65 and older and the size of this population is
expanding rapidly. Aging is associated with systemic inflammation, sleep disturbances …

[HTML][HTML] Youth drinking in decline: What are the implications for public health, public policy and public debate?

J Holmes, H Fairbrother, M Livingston, PS Meier… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Youth drinking has declined across most high-income countries in the last 20 years.
Although researchers and commentators have explored the nature and drivers of decline …

Increased alcohol‐specific mortality in Germany during COVID‐19: State‐level trends from 2010 to 2020

C Kilian, S Carr, B Schulte… - Drug and Alcohol …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction The COVID‐19 pandemic may have led to an increase in the alcohol‐specific
mortality. Against this backdrop, the aim of this report is to explore alcohol‐specific mortality …

Modeling the impact of COVID‐19 pandemic‐driven increases in alcohol consumption on health outcomes and hospitalization costs in the United States

C Barbosa, WN Dowd, SJ Neuwahl, J Rehm… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background and aims Alcohol consumption increased in the early phases of the COVID‐19
pandemic in the United States. Alcohol use disorder (AUD) and risky drinking are linked to …

UK alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of drinking motives, employment and subjective mental health

RL Monk, AW Qureshi, GB Richardson, D Heim - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Background Previous investigations suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic effects on alcohol
consumption were heterogenous and may vary as a function of structural and psychological …

[HTML][HTML] The association between psychological distress and alcohol consumption and physical activity: a population-based cohort study

SE Alpers, S Pallesen, JH Vold, E Haug… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic and infection control measures caused changes to
daily life for most people. Heavy alcohol consumption and physical inactivity are two …

Examining the relationship between alcohol consumption, psychological distress and COVID-19 related circumstances: An Australian longitudinal study in the first …

Y Mojica-Perez, M Livingston, A Pennay, S Callinan - Addictive behaviors, 2022 - Elsevier
Objective The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between alcohol consumption,
psychological distress and COVID-19 related circumstances (being in lockdown, working …

Exercising healthy behaviors: A latent class analysis of positive coping during the COVID-19 pandemic and associations with alcohol-related and mental health …

EM McCabe, JW Luk, BL Stangl, ML Schwandt… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Objective To identify latent classes of positive coping behaviors during the COVID-19
pandemic and examine associations with alcohol-related and mental health outcomes …