The National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC) Waves 1 and 2: review and summary of findings

DS Hasin, BF Grant - Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 2015 - Springer
Purpose The NESARC, a “third-generation” psychiatric epidemiologic survey that integrated
detailed measures of alcohol and drug use and problems has been the data source for …

Less drinking, yet more problems: understanding African American drinking and related problems.

TCB Zapolski, SL Pedersen, DM McCarthy… - Psychological …, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
Researchers have found that, compared to European Americans, African Americans report
later initiation of drinking, lower rates of use, and lower levels of use across almost all age …

Sex differences in striatal dopamine release in young adults after oral alcohol challenge: a positron emission tomography imaging study with [11C] raclopride

NBL Urban, LS Kegeles, M Slifstein, X Xu, D Martinez… - Biological …, 2010 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: We used a positron emission tomography paradigm with the D2/3
radiotracer [11C] raclopride and an alcohol challenge to examine the magnitude of alcohol …

Intensity and duration of chronic ethanol exposure is critical for subsequent escalation of voluntary ethanol drinking in mice

WC Griffin III, MF Lopez… - Alcoholism: Clinical and …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Background: Excessive alcohol drinking continues to be an important health problem.
Recent studies from our laboratory and others have demonstrated that animal models of …

An evaluation of the proposed DSM‐5 alcohol use disorder criteria using Australian national data

L Mewton, T Slade, O McBride, R Grove, M Teesson - Addiction, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Aims To evaluate the proposed revisions to the DSM‐IV alcohol use disorder criteria using
epidemiological data. Design, setting and participants Data came from the 1997 Australian …

Alcohol craving and the dimensionality of alcohol disorders

KM Keyes, RF Krueger, BF Grant… - Psychological medicine, 2011 - cambridge.org
BackgroundICD-10 includes a craving criterion for alcohol dependence while DSM-IV does
not. Little is known about whether craving fits with or improves the DSM-IV criteria set for …

Risk factors for alcohol use among pregnant women, ages 15–44, in the United States, 2002 to 2017

D Shmulewitz, DS Hasin - Preventive medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
Fetal alcohol exposure can lead to severe birth and developmental defects. Determining
which pregnant women are most likely to drink is essential for targeting interventions. In …

Prospective follow‐up of empirically derived Alcohol Dependence subtypes in wave 2 of the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol And Related Conditions …

HB Moss, CM Chen, HY Yi - Alcoholism: Clinical and …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Background: We have previously reported on an empirical classification of Alcohol
Dependence (AD) individuals into subtypes using nationally representative general …

The dimensionality of alcohol use disorders and alcohol consumption in a cross‐national perspective

G Borges, Y Ye, J Bond, CJ Cherpitel, M Cremonte… - …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Aims To replicate the finding that there is a single dimension trait in alcohol use disorders
and to test whether the usual 5+ drinks for men and 4+ drinks for women and other …

A multidimensional assessment of the validity and utility of alcohol use disorder severity as determined by item response theory models

DA Dawson, TD Saha, BF Grant - Drug and alcohol dependence, 2010 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: The relative severity of the 11 DSM-IV alcohol use disorder (AUD) criteria
are represented by their severity threshold scores, an item response theory (IRT) model …