AMERICAN DRINKING PRACTICES. A National Study of Drinking Behavior and Attitudes
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This article is published in American Journal of Public Health.The article was published on 1970-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 129 citations till now.read more
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Why do young people drink? A review of drinking motives.
TL;DR: Evidence of adolescent and young adult drinking motives and their relation to possible consequences over the last 15 years is reviewed and an enormous heterogeneity was found in terms of how motives were measured.
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Alcohol and intimate partner violence: a meta-analytic review.
TL;DR: There was a larger association of alcohol and aggression in clinical versus non-clinical samples and when measures assessed more severe alcohol problems, and the magnitude of the effect sizes varied significantly as a function of the type of sample and type of alcohol measure selected.
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Falls and Injuries in Frail and Vigorous Community Elderly Persons
Mark Speechley,Mary E. Tinetti +1 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that fall‐related injuries can be a serious health problem for vigorous as well as frail elderly persons and injury prevention should be directed at all elderly persons but tailored to expected differences in fall circumstances.
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Adverse Effects on Offspring of Maternal Alcohol Abuse during Pregnancy
TL;DR: Infants born to heavy drinkers had twice the risk of abnormality of those born to abstinent or moderate drinkers, and microcephaly and multiple congenital anomalies were much more frequent in this group.
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Neuropsychological functioning in adolescent marijuana users: subtle deficits detectable after a month of abstinence.
Krista Lisdahl Medina,Karen L. Hanson,Alecia D. Schweinsburg,Mairav Cohen-Zion,Bonnie J. Nagel,Susan F. Tapert +5 more
TL;DR: The general pattern of results suggested that, even after a month of monitored abstinence, adolescent marijuana users demonstrate subtle neuropsychological deficits compared with nonusers, suggesting that frequent marijuana use during adolescence may negatively influence neuromaturation and cognitive development.