Each year an estimated 200 000 youth aged 10–29 years are murdered, making homicide
the fourth leading cause of death in young people globally. In addition to these deaths …

The aim of this review was to review research addressing the relationship between
population drinking and health, particularly mortality. The review is based primarily on …

Alcohol has long been known as a risk factor for disease. The 1990 Global Burden of
Disease (GBD) study (Murray and Lopez 1996a, 1996b) identified alcohol as one of the …

Funding: This work was supported by an unrestricted contract from Lundbeck A/S. In
addition, WHO European Region supported the calculations of alcohol-attributable harm; …

Aims The estimation of alcohol‐related human losses in Russia in the 1980s and 1990s.
Design The estimation was made by comparing changes in the total number of deaths and …

This supplement includes a collection of papers that aim at estimating the relationship
between per capita alcohol consumption and various forms of mortality, including mortality …

Aim. To estimate the effects of changes in per capita alcohol consumption on liver cirrhosis
mortality rates in various demographic groups across 14 western European countries …

Substance use and abuse are two of the most frequent psychological problems clinicians
encounter. Mainstream approaches focus on the biological and psychological factors …

Aims Brief interventions for problem drinking may result in decreased mortality rates. Long‐
term follow‐up studies of brief interventions do not produce a clear answer to the question …

Vasil Bykau (1924–2003), perhaps the greatest writer in Belarus ever, and widely read and
loved in Russia also, describes Stupak Petrov in his book “The Veteran”(“Afganets”). The …