... fulfilled the criteria for prior-to-past-year alcohol dependence. Recovery status was defined as abstinent recovery, low-risk drinking or asymptomatic risk drinking, defined as exceeding the criteria for at-risk drinking (defined as exceeding 14 [men] or 7 [women] drinks equaling 14 g/alcohol) per week...

...Sanjeev K. Sobhee; Verena Tandrayen-Ragoobur; Harshana Kasseeah; Asrani Gopaul Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the drinking behaviour of alcohol dependents in the small island economy Mauritius, which is characterised by different cultures and ethnic groups. The drinking culture...

...Christos Kouimtsidis; Daniel Stahl; Robert West; Colin Drummond Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test the discriminative validity of the Substance Use Beliefs Questionnaire (SUBQ) with alcohol dependent users, by assessing if the new tool can successfully differentiate between two...

...Hannah Jethwa Problem drinking includes a spectrum of drinking habits ranging from excessive alcohol intake to alcohol dependence. Numerous risk factors are thought to increase the susceptibility to such drinking patterns ‐ genetic, environmental and constitutional. Although alcohol misusers...

...Christopher Littlejohn This year (2003) saw the Health Technology Board for Scotland publish its third Health Technology Assessment Report, entitled Prevention of Relapse in Alcohol Dependence (Slattery et al., 2003). It recommended four evidence‐based psychosocial interventions to be available...