The International Impacts of Alcohol Use Disorder and Nicotine and Tobacco
The journals of Alcohol and Alcoholism and Nicotine & Tobacco Research are pleased to present the following collection of recent research detailing the international impacts of alcohol use disorder and nicotine and tobacco use. Papers included in this collaborative effort cover nearly every continent and represent some of the most pressing research from two of the top journals in the field of drug use disorder.
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Alcohol and Alcoholism
Esme Fuller-Thomson et al
Alcohol and Alcoholism, August 2021, https://doi.org/10.1093/alcalc/agab048
(a) To document the prevalence and odds of (i) alcohol use disorders, (ii) cannabis use disorders, (iii) other drug use disorders and (iv) any substance use disorder (SUD), among young adults with and without ADHD, and (b) to investigate the degree to which the association between ADHD and SUDs is attenuated by socio-demographics, early adversities and mental health.
Byron L Zamboanga, Amanda M George, Kathryne Van Hedger, Janine V Olthuis, Angelina Pilatti, Emma Dresler
Alcohol and Alcoholism, Volume 56, Issue 6, November 2021, Pages 683–688, https://doi.org/10.1093/alcalc/agaa141
The limited existing research on drinking games and predrinking among university students in Argentina, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand suggests that participation in these risky drinking practices is relatively widespread among this population.
Frantz Pierre, Leah S Forman, Michael Winter, Debbie Cheng, Christine Ngabirano, Nneka Emenyonu, Peter W Hunt, Yong Huang, Winnie Muyindike, Jeffrey Samet, Judith A Hahn, Kaku So-Armah
Alcohol and Alcoholism, Volume 57, Issue 2, March 2022, Pages 219–225, https://doi.org/10.1093/alcalc/agab033
Alcohol is hypothesized to have effects on the kynurenine pathway of tryptophan catabolism, a potential mechanism for alcohol-induced depression and aggression. A biomarker of this pathway, the plasma kynurenine to tryptophan ratio (K/T ratio), has been associated with HIV progression, mortality and depression. Our aim was to assess whether hazardous alcohol consumption is associated higher K/T ratio among people with HIV.
Leandro Machado Oliveira, Kimberly da Silva Pilecco, Cícero Anghinoni de Oliveira, Raquel Pippi Antoniazzi, Flávio Fernando Demarco, Fabrício Batistin Zanatta
Alcohol and Alcoholism, Volume 57, Issue 5, September 2022, Pages 566–575, https://doi.org/10.1093/alcalc/agac023
To conduct an overview and systematic evaluation of prospective cohort studies on whether alcohol intake is associated with the incidence and progression of periodontitis.
Rakhi Vashishtha, Amy Pennay, Paul M Dietze, Michael Livingston
Alcohol and Alcoholism, Volume 57, Issue 4, July 2022, Pages 470–476, https://doi.org/10.1093/alcalc/agab083
Adolescent drinking has declined in many high-income countries since the early 2000s. It has been suggested that changing parenting practices may have contributed to the decline. However, previous studies investigating parenting have focused on single countries and have provided conflicting evidence. This study tested the association between changes in individual- and population-level parental control and parental support and changes in past month adolescent drinking.
Jiraluck Nontarak, Alan Frederick Geater, Sawitri Assanangkornchai, Wichai Aekplakorn
Alcohol and Alcoholism, Volume 57, Issue 4, July 2022, Pages 490–499, https://doi.org/10.1093/alcalc/agab075
Evidence of premature death attributable to alcohol, a modifiable risk factor, is crucial for guiding public health policy for alcohol control. The aim of this study was to estimate alcohol-related mortality and potential years of life lost (PYLL) in Thailand in 2004–2019.
Sofija Lugonja, Ivana Pantic, Igor Dumic, Tamara Milovanovic Author Notes
Alcohol and Alcoholism, Volume 56, Issue 6, November 2021, Pages 689–694, https://doi.org/10.1093/alcalc/agaa142
Alcoholism is a growing problem with increasing incidence on in women. The aim of our study was to evaluate drinking habits in women using Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT), and to look for differences in relations to respondents’ demographic, behavioral, and medical characteristics.
Jing Zhai, Wenzheng Wang, Lei Zhang, Rao Fu, Qingzhi Zeng, Leping Huang, Min Zhao, Jiang Du
Alcohol and Alcoholism, Volume 57, Issue 6, November 2022, Pages 742–748, https://doi.org/10.1093/alcalc/agac030
The present study was a randomized controlled trial with a longitudinal design aimed at examining the effectiveness of Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) on harmful alcohol use in the community health centres in Shanghai, China, and further compared the effects of a multi-session brief intervention (MBI) and a single-session brief intervention (SBI).
Nicotine & Tobacco Research
Sue M Cotton, PhD, Sonia Sharmin, PhD, Caroline X Gao, PhD, Ellie Brown, DCounsPsych, Jana M Menssink, DPsych, Debra Rickwood, PhD, Gillinder Bedi, DPsych (Clinical), Ian Hickie, MD, Sarah E Hetrick, DPsych (Clinical), Alexandra G Parker, PhD, Helen Herrman, PhD, Nic Telford, MSS, Patrick D McGorry, MD, PhD, Kate M Filia, PhD
Nicotine & Tobacco Research, Volume 25, Issue 4, April 2023, Pages 682–691, https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntac039
We aimed to delineate the prevalence and correlates of recent tobacco use (eg, cigarettes, chewing tobacco, cigars, etc) in the past 3 months in young people at their first presentation to primary mental health services as a function of age. Cross-sectional self-report measures were collected using a tablet device from young people presenting to one of five Australian primary mental health (headspace) services. Logistic regression assessed correlates of past 3-month tobacco use in adolescents (12–17 years) and young adults (18–25 years).
Elle Anastasiou, MPH, Terry Gordon, PhD, Katarzyna Wyka, PhD, Albert Tovar, Emily Gill, MPH, Ana M Rule, PhD, Brian Elbel, PhD, J D Sue Kaplan, Donna Shelley, MD MPH, Lorna E Thorpe, PhD
Nicotine & Tobacco Research, Volume 25, Issue 1, January 2023, Pages 164–169, https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntac202
In July 2018, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development passed a rule requiring public housing authorities to implement smoke-free housing (SFH) policies. We measured secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure immediately before, and repeatedly up to 36 months post-SFH policy implementation in a purposeful sample of 21 New York City (NYC) high-rise buildings (>15 floors): 10 NYC Housing Authority (NYCHA) buildings subject to the policy and 11 privately managed buildings in which most residents received housing vouchers (herein “Section 8”).
Nanna Schneekloth Jarlstrup, PhD, Lau Caspar Thygesen, PhD, Morten Klöcker Grønbæk, MD, PhD, Morten Hulvej Rod, PhD, Janne Schurmann Tolstrup, MD, PhD
Nicotine & Tobacco Research, Volume 25, Issue 4, April 2023, Pages 648–656, https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntac257
Previous research has documented the effect of comprehensive smoking bans on preventing various adverse health outcomes in the years post-ban. In 2007, Denmark implemented a national smoking ban that prohibited indoor smoking in workplaces and public settings, although only partial restrictions applied in specific premises such as small bars, one-person offices, and in psychiatric units. We tested the hypothesis that the implementation of the national smoking ban was associated with a decrease in incidence of smoking-related morbidity in the Danish population compared to the pre-ban period.
Leah Jayes, PhD, Jessica Waddingham, MSc, John Britton, MD, Rachael Murray, PhD
Nicotine & Tobacco Research, Volume 25, Issue 6, June 2023, Pages 1099–1108, https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntac296
In the United Kingdom, smoking among prisoners is up to five times more prevalent than the national average. Between 2015 and 2018, HMPPS introduced a complete smoke-free policy in all closed prisons, and a partial policy permitting smoking only in smoking shelters in open prisons.
Joanne Chen Lyu, PhD, Hai-Yen Sung, PhD, Tingting Yao, PhD, Nan Jiang, PhD, Anne C K Quah, PhD, Gang Meng, PhD, Yuan Jiang, PhD, Geoffrey T Fong, PhD, Wendy Max, PhD
Nicotine & Tobacco Research, Volume 25, Issue 5, May 2023, Pages 928–936, https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntac294
Cigarette gifting is commonly practiced in China and has contributed to the social acceptability and high prevalence of cigarette smoking in the country. As a result, nonsmokers in China are particularly susceptible to smoking. While previous studies have examined cigarette gifting behaviors among smokers, little is known about cigarette gifting among nonsmokers.
David T Levy, PhD, Coral Gartner, PhD, Alex C Liber, PhD, Luz Maria Sánchez-Romero, PhD, MD, Zhe Yuan, MS, Yameng Li, MS, K Michael Cummings, PhD, Ron Borland, PhD
Nicotine & Tobacco Research, Volume 25, Issue 3, March 2023, Pages 486–497, https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntac210
We model the potential impact of relaxing current nicotine vaping product (NVP) restrictions on public health in Australia.
Saeed Nemati, MSc, Parnian Naji, MD, Sepideh Abdi, MD, Fereshte Lotfi, MSc, Elnaz Saeedi, MSc, Sepideh A Mehravar, MD, Pedram Fattahi, DDS, Mahdi Sheikh, MD, PhD, Mojtaba Vand Rajabpour, MD, PhD, Anita Eftekharzadeh, MD, Kazem Zendehdel, MD, PhD
Nicotine & Tobacco Research, Volume 25, Issue 1, January 2023, Pages 12–18, https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntac179
We aimed to calculate the Population Attributable Fraction (PAF) of cancers due to tobacco use in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMRO), where water-pipe smoking is prevalent but its effect was not considered in previous studies.
Ann M Rusk, MD, Amjad N Kanj, MD, MPH, Mohammad H Murad, MD, Leslie C Hassett, MLS, Cassie C Kennedy, MD
Nicotine & Tobacco Research, Volume 25, Issue 1, January 2023, Pages 3–11, https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntac181
Indigenous North Americans have the highest cigarette smoking prevalence among all racial and ethnic groups in the United States. We seek to identify effective components of smoking cessation interventions in Indigenous people in the United States associated with favorable cessation outcomes.
