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Treatment Interventions for Women With Alcohol Use Disorder
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Awareness to Insight in Just 50 Years
Introduction
The establishment of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) in 1971 was bracketed by three seminal papers that laid the groundwork for the field of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) research. In 1968, Lemoine et al.1 described children with birth defects and neurodevelopmental disorders associated with prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE). This French...
The Epidemiology of Binge Drinking Among College-Age Individuals in the United States
Alcohol Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for Girls and Women
Gender Differences in the Epidemiology of Alcohol Use and Related Harms in the United States
Alcohol-Related Disparities Among Women: Evidence and Potential Explanations
The Gastrointestinal Microbiome: Alcohol Effects on the Composition of Intestinal Microbiota
It has been estimated that approximately 2 billion people worldwide drink alcohol on a daily basis, with more than 70 million people having a diagnosed alcohol use disorder (World Health Organization 2004). Globally, alcohol use is the fifth leading risk factor for premature death and disability among people between the ages of 15 and 49 (Lim et al. 2012). Excessive alcohol consumption in the...