An extensive review of the literature on college students' drinking patterns and problems since the mid-1930s revealed no radical changes over the pas...
This article examines the role of health services research in alcoholism treatment. Alcoholism services research has only recently emerged as a self-d...
During fiscal year 1987, expenditures for alcohol and drug abuse services in facilities receiving at least some funds from State alcohol and drug agen...
It is well known that alcohol abuse is significantly involved in the incidence of casualties (that is, accidents and injuries as they are defined for ...
From 1980 through 1985, considerable progress was made across the Nation in reducing drunken driving and fatal automobile crashes. More than 400 chapt...
The economic effects of alcohol abuse are as damaging to the nation as the health effects, affecting the family, the community, and persons of all age...
Efforts to curtail alcohol abuse and alcoholism can be divided into primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. Primary prevention attempts to stop a...
Historically, mankind has at least suspected that alcohol was somehow connected with undesirable effects on progeny. In the 18th century, physicians b...
Two major trends regarding alcohol use and consequences of alcohol abuse in the U.S. are showing significant improvement. Continued declines are evide...
Substantial scientific evidence has accumulated that both genetic and environmental factors predispose the development of alcoholism in certain indivi...
Prospects for research advances in alcoholism are very promising, because of the explosion in the neurosciences and advances in epidemiology and typol...
The Public Health Service and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration share the responsibility for problems related to injury prevention an...
Alcoholism is an often overlooked health problem because alcoholics usually do not seek treatment for their drinking problems. They do, however, seek ...
Sensitivity to gender issues in the research community has generated a modest but growing amount of data on the biological effects of alcohol consumpt...
Over a 3-year period, only 22 new active cases of tuberculosis were discovered as a result of taking 48,000 70-mm X-ray films of generally elderly and...
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