Recent epidemiological and social studies have increasingly pointed to the importance of
drinking patterns in explaining consequences of alcohol consumption. This paper presents …

Research on selected consequences of alcohol use are reviewed in terms of now alcohol
use is measured and reported in research designs common to that area of study. In addition …

Aims.(1) To estimate the impact of drinking patterns on negative social (behaviour)
consequences.(2) To test for the additional impact of overall volume of alcohol consumed on …

Background: Data on risks and benefits associated with drinking patterns provide the
scientific basis for moderate, low‐risk drinking guidelines. Illustrated are methods to …

There has been growing academic interest in “drinking cultures” as targets of investigation
and intervention, driven often by policy discourse about “changing the drinking culture”. In …

Alcohol policies in many countries have long been based on the assumption that a wide
range of health and social problems associated with the abuse of alcohol can be directly …

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 …

A theoretical model is presented in which alcohol consumption patterns are expressed in
terms of frequencies of initiation and probabilities of continued drinking once consumption …

OBJECTIVES. Since 1981, per capita consumption of alcohol (based on sales figures) has
decreased in the United States. This study describes drinking patterns in the 1990 national …

Background: That there have been 'long waves' of consumption in parallel in different
societies has previously been noted. Now there is a sustained drop in drinking among youth …