March Madness: NCAA Tournament Participation and College Alcohol Use
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...Two reviews on this topic came to the same conclusion: that all three mechanisms are possible and probably existing, but the first mechanism—that alcohol use (especially heavy use and alcohol use disorders) causes depression—is stronger andmore prevalent than the other pathways ([5,219]; see also [221,222])....
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...There are three possible descriptions of the potential causal pathways that underlie the association between heavy alcohol use and alcohol use disorders and major depressive disorders [5,219]: (a) heavy drinking/alcohol use disorders cause depressive disorders; (b) depressive disorders increase alcohol use and cause alcohol use disorders (often discussed under the heading of a ‘self-medication’ hypothesis [220]); and (c) a reciprocal causal relationship or causation by another mechanism such as genetic vulnerability....
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...While such a hypothesis is based on individual-level studies, it could not always be confirmed in ecological analyses such as time–series analyses (for confirmation see [5,324]; for essentially no relations in a number of countries in the EuropeanUnion, see [325]; for a result contrary to the hypothesis, see [326])....
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...have had such a disorder at some point in their lifetime.(6,7) In addition to alcohol use disorder, Author affiliations and support information...
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...College-age and younger people who drink are prone to develop an alcohol use disorder later in life.(7) Most adults who engage in high-risk alcohol drinking behavior started drinking before age 21 years....
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...The risk for alcohol-related injury deaths is influenced more by heavy drinking occasions than by average daily consumption.(44,46) Therefore, we followed the CDC(32) and others in using the case series method to estimate PAFs for these deaths....
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...We considered these deaths 100% attributable to the named substance and assigned them a PAF of 1.(38,44,45)...
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...This accounts for any lag between the date a student filled out the survey and the date they mailed it, time spent in the mail, and any lag between receipt of the survey 6For details on the survey design, see Wechsler et al. (2002)....
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...For example, changing perceptions about what constitutes “normal” drinking (Haines and Spear, 1996 and Perkins, 2002) and providing motivational interventions (Borsari and Carey, 2000) have been shown to reduce drinking (at least in the short run) in other contexts....
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...Binge drinking is associated with increased rates of drunk driving, sexual assault, and other negative outcomes among young people (Miller et al., 2007)....
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...For example, changing perceptions about what constitutes “normal” drinking (Haines and Spear, 1996 and Perkins, 2002) and providing motivational interventions (Borsari and Carey, 2000) have been shown to reduce drinking (at least in the short run) in other contexts....
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