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Alcohol-Related Disparities Among Women: Evidence and Potential Explanations
Advances in Medications and Tailoring Treatment for Alcohol Use Disorder
Despite decades of research on various methods for treating alcohol use disorder (AUD), AUD remains prevalent throughout the world, making it critical to develop a more comprehensive approach to address the issue. Heavy drinking is the third largest risk factor for global disease burden, leading to enormous social and economic decline (World Health Organization 2014). Each year, alcohol misuse is...
Sleep and Alcohol Use in Women
Alcohol Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for Girls and Women
Community Indicators: Assessing the Impact of Alcohol Use on Communities
In the United States and other countries around the world, researchers have long been interested in community-level measurement of population health in the form of community indicators. Community indicators are measures that communicate information about a given dimension of a community’s well-being (Besleme and Mullin 1997). In the United States, the current popularity of community indicators can...
Introduction
Although historically cisgender women (i.e., women whose sex assigned at birth is consonant with their gender) in the United States have had lower levels of alcohol consumption than cisgender men, recent analyses of historical and cohort data suggest that overall gender differences are narrowing.1 This narrowing is largely due to substantial increases in cisgender women's alcohol use...