Drinking

Early onset of Drinking is a major public health concern facing countries. Early initiation is considered as a marker of alcohol dependence and other substance abuse in later years of life. Heavy episodic alcohol use (Binge drinking) in adolescence diminishes their educational attainment by affecting brain structure, brain functioning, and neuropsychological performance. Beyond health consequences, the harmful use of alcohol brings significant social and economic losses to individuals and society at large. The empirical results obtained in our study suggest that binge pattern of drinking and the spirits contents in the alcoholic beverage exert a positive and significant influence on Alcohol-Attributable Fractions. Factors that interfere with the evidence-based prevention strategies include corporate lobbying, lack of political will, and weak enforcement of public regulations. There is a need for countries to revisit their alcohol control policies and assess the gap between the evidence-based prevention science and implementation in practice.

Survey, sample, statistical tables on alcoholism among women and woman workers in the UK - covers demographic aspects, choice of alcoholic beverage and venue, personal circumstances, duration of problems associated with alcohol and consumption level, pregnancy, health, impact on women's families, etc., measurement of drinking patterns and alcohol risk occupations. Graphs, questionnaire, references, statistical tables.

This book portrays teenage drinking, not as a symptom of pathology, but as a perfectly normal developmental phase within the context of the home environment. Drinking is a predominantly social behaviour and the family is seen as a major agent of socialization. The authors have therefore explored family dynamics and the influence which the home environment has upon adolescent drinking to come up with a new theoretical model. A major feature of this approach is the interaction of ideas from family life psychology and human geography. The authors present a typology of domestic regimes illustrated by case studies of boundary enforcement and transgression. The general theme of boundary transgression, applied here to both the psychosocial environment and built form, represents an interesting new theoretical perspective. The integration of these two fields is an innovation which should stimulate further interdisciplinary work in adolescence and addiction research. Adolescent Drinking and Family Life will be invaluable to researchers and practitioners in adolescence, family dynamics, and alcohol as well as any social scientist with an interest in the link between behaviour and the home environment. This new approach has important implications for health education and for interventions concerned with adolescent alcohol use.

While the parent herbicides have been well documented in natural waters, relatively little is known about the occurrence of herbicide degadates in water. Those chloroacetamide degradates (the ionic ethane sulfonic acids and oxanilic acids) that have been previously studied in natural waters are found more frequently and at higher concentrations than the parent herbicide. The chloroacetamide herbicides are also known to degrade to many other neutral degradates that have not been studied extensively in natural waters.