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Dec 30, 2014 · In time, all states legalized alcohol — but how they did so differed. By the latest count, 17 states maintain an alcohol monopoly that lets them tightly regulate and restrict production and...
- American Drinking: on Occasion and in Excess
- Intoxication Across The Nation
- Drinking Habits, by Gender
- Drinking Age in American History
- The Age of Experimentation
- Precarious Combinations
- Drinking History, Hopeful Futures
- Methodology
Between 2004 and 2016,roughly two-thirds of Americans reported drinking on at least one occasion within the last year. Similarly, rates of heavy drinking in the last 30 days held largely constant, declining only slightly during that period. Likewise, the percentage of people reporting dependence on alcohol was slightly lower in 2016 than in 2014. E...
To study geographical differences in drinking trends, we turned to data from the CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. In some states, drinking patterns changed significantly over the period studied. Tennessee, home to an eclectic set of drinking laws and dry counties, saw a substantial surge in the percentage of residents drinking over...
Historically, researchers have concluded American men drink alcohol more heavily and frequently than their female counterparts. To some extent, our 2016 data confirm this pattern. Men were more than twice as likely as women to report heavy drinking in 2016.Additionally, nearly 3 in 10 men reported binge drinking in the past 30 days. Just 2 in 10 wo...
Among younger Americans, the prevalence of alcohol abusedeclined drastically between 2004 and 2016. In the 12- to 17-year-old cohort, the incidence of dependence and abuse was more than 100 percent lower in 2016 than in 2004. For those aged 18 to 25, the rate declined 48 percent over that period. Those between the ages of 26 and 49 also saw reduced...
Our data depict a definite trend in younger Americans delaying their first drinking experiences. Between 2004 and 2016, the percentage of individuals waiting until they reached the legal drinking age to try alcohol rose incrementally. Additionally, by 2016, nearly a fifth of individuals had never tried alcohol, a significant increase over 2004 figu...
The medical community warns that mixing drugs and alcohol can produce dangerous and unpredictable interaction effects. But our findings suggest a significant portion of drinkers may be attempting this risky experiment. According to 2016 figures, nearly a third of individuals who reported heavy drinking in the last 30 days also used illicit drugs du...
Our results suggest significant changes in the drinking patterns and preferences of some demographics. That such substantial shifts could occur over just 12 years demonstrates the need for ongoing research. If public health officials can proactively perceive a growing need for treatment, the nation can adapt to problematic drinking trends with lowe...
For this project, we compiled data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality, and the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 2004-2016. “The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) series, formerly titled Natio...
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Events in the history of alcohol and drinking in the United States of America from European Settlement to Today. Includes fascinating facts, references and historical readings.
Aug 19, 2009 · This book began as a conference in 1997 on the history of alcohol and drug use in American society over the last 200 years. The book charts societies’ attitudes to alcohol and drug problems over this period, including attitudes to psychotropic drugs, psychedelic drugs and cigarette smoking.
- Brian D. Hore
- 2009
Jan 1, 2000 · Abstract. The past 100 years witnessed the formation of a disease concept of alcoholism and a rapid increase in the knowledge of its aetiopathology and treatment options. In the first half of the century, public sanctions aimed at the abolition of alcoholism. In the United States, alcohol prohibition was revoked in the economic turmoil of the ...
- Karl Mann, Derik Hermann, Andreas Heinz
- 2000
Jul 13, 2013 · During the early era of alcohol research in the United States, around the 1940s, the Yale Laboratory of Physiology (New Haven, CT)—which later evolved into the Yale, then Rutgers, Center of Alcohol Studies—became the center point for early scientific and sociocultural research on alcohol.
Alcohol and the Human Body: In 2018, of the 83,517 liver disease deaths among individuals ages 12 and older, 42.8 percent involved alcohol. Among males, 52,499 liver disease deaths occurred and 45.4 percent involved alcohol. Among females, 31,018 liver disease deaths occurred and 38.5 percent involved alcohol.26.
