Public Health Implications of Excessive Alcohol Consumption

Fifteen-year follow-up of a randomized trial of a preventive intervention for divorced families: Effects on mental health and substance use outcomes in young adulthood.

“…Of the program effects on substance use measures, the one with the clearest clinical significance is the reduction in the number of substance-related disorders with onset between mid-to-late adolescence and young adulthood. These findings are encouraging, given estimates that the economic cost of substance abuse exceed $484 billion per year and more than 2 million Americans die each year due to substance use (Hanson & Li, 2003). Additional follow-up of this sample is needed to assess whether the program effects on substance use and substancerelated disorders for males are sustained later in development.…”

Fifteen-year follow-up of a randomized trial of a preventive intervention for divorced families: Effects on mental health and substance use outcomes in young adulthood.

“…Of the program effects on substance use measures, the one with the clearest clinical significance is the reduction in the number of substance-related disorders with onset between mid-to-late adolescence and young adulthood. These findings are encouraging, given estimates that the economic cost of substance abuse exceed $484 billion per year and more than 2 million Americans die each year due to substance use (Hanson & Li, 2003). Additional follow-up of this sample is needed to assess whether the program effects on substance use and substancerelated disorders for males are sustained later in development.…”

Monitoring prenatal alcohol exposure

“…These and other reports [Foster et al, 2003;Hanson and Li, 2003] attest to the continued and growing presence of alcohol use as a part of the American culture and to the growing potential for adverse outcomes, including FAS and other prenatal alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorders as a consequence of excessive and inappropriate use of alcohol.…”

Onset and course of alcoholism over 25 years in middle class men

“…Also, the population used here was Caucasian, male, and well educated, making it unclear whether the same predictors would operate in more racially-diverse populations, women, or individuals with earlier onsets of their AUDs associated with more antisocial behaviors earlier in life. In addition, because the mean age of these probands at followup was ~47 years, additional cases of AUDs and changes in the relationships of key variables to outcomes may be observed as these men enter their sixth decade of life (Hanson and Li, 2003; Lucey et al, 1992.…”

Fifteen-year follow-up of a randomized trial of a preventive intervention for divorced families: Effects on mental health and substance use outcomes in young adulthood.

“…Of the program effects on substance use measures, the one with the clearest clinical significance is the reduction in the number of substance-related disorders with onset between mid-to-late adolescence and young adulthood. These findings are encouraging, given estimates that the economic cost of substance abuse exceed $484 billion per year and more than 2 million Americans die each year due to substance use (Hanson & Li, 2003). Additional follow-up of this sample is needed to assess whether the program effects on substance use and substancerelated disorders for males are sustained later in development.…”

Monitoring prenatal alcohol exposure

“…These and other reports [Foster et al, 2003;Hanson and Li, 2003] attest to the continued and growing presence of alcohol use as a part of the American culture and to the growing potential for adverse outcomes, including FAS and other prenatal alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorders as a consequence of excessive and inappropriate use of alcohol.…”

Onset and course of alcoholism over 25 years in middle class men

“…Also, the population used here was Caucasian, male, and well educated, making it unclear whether the same predictors would operate in more racially-diverse populations, women, or individuals with earlier onsets of their AUDs associated with more antisocial behaviors earlier in life. In addition, because the mean age of these probands at followup was ~47 years, additional cases of AUDs and changes in the relationships of key variables to outcomes may be observed as these men enter their sixth decade of life (Hanson and Li, 2003; Lucey et al, 1992.…”

Fifteen-year follow-up of a randomized trial of a preventive intervention for divorced families: Effects on mental health and substance use outcomes in young adulthood.

“…Of the program effects on substance use measures, the one with the clearest clinical significance is the reduction in the number of substance-related disorders with onset between mid-to-late adolescence and young adulthood. These findings are encouraging, given estimates that the economic cost of substance abuse exceed $484 billion per year and more than 2 million Americans die each year due to substance use (Hanson & Li, 2003). Additional follow-up of this sample is needed to assess whether the program effects on substance use and substancerelated disorders for males are sustained later in development.…”

Monitoring prenatal alcohol exposure

“…These and other reports [Foster et al, 2003;Hanson and Li, 2003] attest to the continued and growing presence of alcohol use as a part of the American culture and to the growing potential for adverse outcomes, including FAS and other prenatal alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorders as a consequence of excessive and inappropriate use of alcohol.…”

Onset and course of alcoholism over 25 years in middle class men

“…Also, the population used here was Caucasian, male, and well educated, making it unclear whether the same predictors would operate in more racially-diverse populations, women, or individuals with earlier onsets of their AUDs associated with more antisocial behaviors earlier in life. In addition, because the mean age of these probands at followup was ~47 years, additional cases of AUDs and changes in the relationships of key variables to outcomes may be observed as these men enter their sixth decade of life (Hanson and Li, 2003; Lucey et al, 1992.…”