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Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre
About: Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre is a based out in . It is known for research contribution in the topics: Poison control & Population. The organization has 137 authors who have published 462 publications receiving 29409 citations.
Topics: Poison control, Population, Mental health, Substance abuse, Heroin
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimated deaths and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs; sum of years lived with disability [YLD] and years of life lost [YLL]) attributable to the independent effects of 67 risk factors and clusters of risk factors for 21 regions in 1990 and 2010.
9,324 citations
University of Connecticut1, University of Texas at Austin2, Massey University3, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health4, University of Western Ontario5, Pacific Institute6, Griffith University7, Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre8, National Institutes of Health9, University of Melbourne10, Norwegian Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research11
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe recent advances in alcohol research which have direct relevance for the development of effective alcohol policies at the local, national and international levels, and the central purpose of the book is to empower those responsible for public health and social welfare.
Abstract: From a public health perspective, alcohol is a major contributor to morbidity and mortality. This book describes recent advances in alcohol research which have direct relevance for the development of effective alcohol policies at the local, national and international levels. The central purpose of the book is to empower those responsible for public health and social welfare.
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TL;DR: Findings indicate that alcohol impacts many disease outcomes causally, both chronic and acute, and injuries, and a pattern of heavy episodic drinking increases risk for some disease and all injury outcomes.
Abstract: Aims As part of a larger study to estimate the global burden of disease and injury attributable to alcohol: to evaluate the evidence for a causal impact of average volume of alcohol consumption and pattern of drinking on diseases and injuries; to quantify relationships identified as causal based on published meta-analyses; to separate the impact on mortality versus morbidity where possible; and to assess the impact of the quality of alcohol on burden of disease. Methods Systematic literature reviews were used to identify alcohol-related diseases, birth complications and injuries using standard epidemiological criteria to determine causality. The extent of the risk relations was taken from meta-analyses. Results Evidence of a causal impact of average volume of alcohol consumption was found for the following major diseases: tuberculosis, mouth, nasopharynx, other pharynx and oropharynx cancer, oesophageal cancer, colon and rectum cancer, liver cancer, female breast cancer, diabetes mellitus, alcohol use disorders, unipolar depressive disorders, epilepsy, hypertensive heart disease, ischaemic heart disease (IHD), ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke, conduction disorders and other dysrhythmias, lower respiratory infections (pneumonia), cirrhosis of the liver, preterm birth complications and fetal alcohol syndrome. Dose-response relationships could be quantified for all disease categories except for depressive disorders, with the relative risk increasing with increased level of alcohol consumption for most diseases. Both average volume and drinking pattern were linked causally to IHD, fetal alcohol syndrome and unintentional and intentional injuries. For IHD, ischaemic stroke and diabetes mellitus beneficial effects were observed for patterns of light to moderate drinking without heavy drinking occasions (as defined by 60+ g pure alcohol per day). For several disease and injury categories, the effects were stronger on mortality compared to morbidity. There was insufficient evidence to establish whether quality of alcohol had a major impact on disease burden. Conclusions Overall, these findings indicate that alcohol impacts many disease outcomes causally, both chronic and acute, and injuries. In addition, a pattern of heavy episodic drinking increases risk for some disease and all injury outcomes. Future studies need to address a number of methodological issues, especially the differential role of average volume versus drinking pattern, in order to obtain more accurate risk estimates and to understand more clearly the nature of alcohol-disease relationships.
1,034 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, a systematic search of academic literature employing the PRISMA method identified 77 relevant articles to identify parenting strategies associated with adolescent alcohol consumption that parents can use to implement new national guidelines regarding alcohol consumption by people under the age of 18.
Abstract: Objective: To identify parenting strategies associated with adolescent alcohol consumption that parents can use to implement new national guidelines regarding alcohol consumption by people under the age of 18.Methods: A systematic search of academic literature employing the PRISMA method identified 77 relevant articles. Inclusion criteria for the review were (i) longitudinal cohort studies; (ii) measurement of one or more parenting factors during adolescence or pre-adolescence (between the ages of 8 and 17) as a predictor (iii) outcome measurement of any alcohol use and/or alcohol related problems during adolescence at least one time point after the initial parenting factor was measured, and/or problem drinking in adulthood. Studies were excluded if alcohol use was combined with other substance use or problem behaviour as an outcome variable, or if different parenting factors were combined as a single predictor variable for analysis. Stouffer's method of combining p values was used to determine whether as...
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TL;DR: No level of consumption is safe when driving and less than 2 drinks per occasion should be encouraged to reduce the risk of injury, and efforts to reduce drinking both on an individual level and a population level are important.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Murat Yücel | 95 | 394 | 27484 |
Jimmy D. Bell | 88 | 589 | 25983 |
Robin Room | 84 | 697 | 66320 |
Dan I. Lubman | 67 | 541 | 16168 |
Susan Donath | 63 | 279 | 13637 |
Antonio Verdejo-García | 52 | 275 | 10896 |
Peter Miller | 45 | 343 | 8177 |
David Best | 44 | 275 | 6808 |
Michael G. Lenné | 41 | 296 | 5257 |
Nicholas Lintzeris | 40 | 219 | 5480 |
Paul Dietze | 40 | 380 | 6492 |
Michael Livingston | 38 | 229 | 7043 |
Nick Crofts | 38 | 137 | 4701 |
Alison Ritter | 36 | 227 | 4698 |
Gabriele Bammer | 36 | 144 | 4491 |