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Aubin HJ, Berlin I, Guiraud J, Bruhwyler J, Batel P, Perney P, Trojak B, Bendimerad P, Guillou M, Bisch M, Grall-Bronnec M, Labarrière D, Delsart D, Questel F, Moirand R, Bernard P, Trovero F, Pham HP, Tassin JP, Puech A. Prazosin and cyproheptadine in combination in the treatment of alcohol use disorder: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Addiction 2024; 119:1211-1223. [PMID: 38597214 DOI: 10.1111/add.16484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2023] [Accepted: 02/23/2024] [Indexed: 04/11/2024]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Pre-clinical studies suggest that the simultaneous blockade of the α1b and 5HT2A receptors may be effective in reducing alcohol consumption. This study aimed to assess the efficacy and safety of prazosin (α1b blocker) and cyproheptadine (5HT2A blocker) combination in decreasing total alcohol consumption (TAC) in alcohol use disorder (AUD). DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS This was a double-blind, parallel group, placebo-controlled, Phase 2, randomized clinical trial conducted in 32 addiction treatment centres in France. A total of 108 men and 46 women with severe AUD took part. INTERVENTION Participants were randomly assigned to one of the following 3-month treatments: (1) low-dose group (LDG) receiving 8 mg cyproheptadine and 5 mg prazosin extended-release (ER) formulation daily; (2) high-dose group (HDG) receiving 12 mg cyproheptadine and 10 mg prazosin ER daily; and (3) placebo group (PG) receiving placebo of cyproheptadine and prazosin ER. A total of 154 patients were randomized: 54 in the PG, 54 in the LDG and 46 in the HDG. MEASUREMENTS The primary outcome was TAC change from baseline to month 3. FINDINGS A significant main treatment effect in the change in TAC was found in the intent-to-treat population (P = 0.039). The HDG and LDG showed a benefit in the change in TAC from baseline to month 3 compared with PG: -23.6 g/day, P = 0.016, Cohen's d = -0.44; -18.4 g/day, P = 0.048 (Bonferroni correction P < 0.025), Cohen's d = -0.36. In a subgroup of very high-risk drinking-level participants (> 100 g/day of pure alcohol for men and > 60 g/day for women), the difference between the HDG and the PG in the primary outcome was -29.8 g/day (P = 0.031, Cohen's d = -0.51). The high and low doses were well-tolerated with a similar safety profile. CONCLUSIONS A randomized controlled trial of treatment of severe alcohol use disorder with a cyproheptadine-prazosin combination for 3 months reduced drinking by more than 23 g per day compared with placebo. A higher dose combination was associated with a larger magnitude of drinking reduction than a lower dose combination while showing similar safety profile.
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- Hopital Pitie-Salpetriere, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
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- University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Vergio, Clichy, France
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- Hôpital Carémeau, Nîmes, Université Montpellier 1, Villejuif, France
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- Centre hospitalier Universitaire Dijon Bourgogne, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
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- Addiction Department, Groupe Hospitalier Littoral Atlantique, La Rochelle, France
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- ER 7479 SPURBO, Université Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France
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- Centre Psychothérapique de Nancy, Addiction Medicine department, Laxou, France
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- Addictology and Liaison Psychiatry Department, Nantes University Hospital, Nantes and Tours Universities, Nantes, France
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- Université Paris Diderot, GH Lariboisière-Saint-Louis-Fernand Widal, Paris, France
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- Université Rennes, Rennes, Institut NUMECAN (Nutrition Metabolisms and Cancer), UF Addictologie, Rennes, France
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- Inserm, Sorbonne-Université, Laboratoire Neuroscience Paris-Seine, Paris, France
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- Kinnov-Therapeutics, Orléans, France
- Inserm, Sorbonne-Université, Laboratoire Neuroscience Paris-Seine, Paris, France
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Lee BP, Witkiewitz K, Mellinger J, Anania FA, Bataller R, Cotter TG, Curtis B, Dasarathy S, DeMartini KS, Diamond I, Diazgranados N, DiMartini AF, Falk DE, Fernandez AC, German MN, Kamath PS, Kidwell KM, Leggio L, Litten R, Louvet A, Lucey MR, McCaul ME, Sanyal AJ, Singal AK, Sussman NL, Terrault NA, Thursz MR, Verna EC, Radaeva S, Nagy LE, Mitchell MC. Designing clinical trials to address alcohol use and alcohol-associated liver disease: an expert panel Consensus Statement. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 2024:10.1038/s41575-024-00936-x. [PMID: 38849555 DOI: 10.1038/s41575-024-00936-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/22/2024] [Indexed: 06/09/2024]
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Most patients with alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) engage in heavy drinking defined as 4 or more drinks per day (56 g) or 8 (112 g) or more drinks per week for women and 5 or more drinks per day (70 g) or 15 (210 g) or more drinks per week for men. Although abstinence from alcohol after diagnosis of ALD improves life expectancy and reduces the risk of decompensation of liver disease, few studies have evaluated whether treatment of alcohol use disorders will reduce progression of liver disease and improve liver-related outcomes. In November 2021, the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism commissioned a task force that included hepatologists, addiction medicine specialists, statisticians, clinical trialists and members of regulatory agencies to develop recommendations for the design and conduct of clinical trials to evaluate the effect of alcohol use, particularly treatment to reduce or eliminate alcohol use in patients with ALD. The task force conducted extensive reviews of relevant literature on alcohol use disorders and ALD. Findings were presented at one in-person meeting and discussed over the next 16 months to develop the final recommendations. As few clinical trials directly address this topic, the 28 recommendations approved by all members of the task force represent a consensus of expert opinions.
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- Brian P Lee
- Division of Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and Institute for Addiction Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Center on Alcohol, Substance use and Addictions, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Division of Hepatology and Nutrition, US Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA
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- Liver Unit, Hospital Clinic, Institut d'Investigacions Biomediques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Technology and Translational Research Unit, Translational Addiction Medicine Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Office of the Clinical Director, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Medications Development Branch, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Clinical Psychoneuroendocrinology and Neuropsychopharmacology Section, Translational Addiction Medicine Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Division of Intramural Clinical and Biological Research, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Division of Treatment and Recovery, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Service des maladies de l'appareil digestif, University Hospital of Lille, Lille, France
- Unité INSERM INFINITE, Lille, France
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Stravitz-Sanyal Institute for Liver Disease and Metabolic Health, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, VA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA
- Department of Medicine, Robley Rex VA Medical Center, Louisville, KY, USA
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- DURECT Corporation, Cupertino, CA, USA
- Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and Institute for Addiction Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Svetlana Radaeva, Division of Metabolism and Health Effects, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Inflammation and Immunity, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
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Heilig M, Witkiewitz K, Ray LA, Leggio L. Novel medications for problematic alcohol use. J Clin Invest 2024; 134:e172889. [PMID: 38828724 PMCID: PMC11142745 DOI: 10.1172/jci172889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2024] Open
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Alcohol-related harm, a major cause of disease burden globally, affects people along a spectrum of use. When a harmful pattern of drinking is present in the absence of significant behavioral pathology, low-intensity brief interventions that provide information about health consequences of continued use provide large health benefits. At the other end of the spectrum, profound behavioral pathology, including continued use despite knowledge of potentially fatal consequences, warrants a medical diagnosis, and treatment is strongly indicated. Available behavioral and pharmacological treatments are supported by scientific evidence but are vastly underutilized. Discovery of additional medications, with a favorable balance of efficacy versus safety and tolerability can improve clinical uptake of treatment, allow personalized treatment, and improve outcomes. Here, we delineate the clinical conditions when pharmacotherapy should be considered in relation to the main diagnostic systems in use and discuss clinical endpoints that represent meaningful clinical benefits. We then review specific developments in three categories of targets that show promise for expanding the treatment toolkit. GPCRs remain the largest category of successful drug targets across contemporary medicine, and several GPCR targets are currently pursued for alcohol-related indications. Endocrine systems are another established category, and several promising targets have emerged for alcohol indications. Finally, immune modulators have revolutionized treatment of multiple medical conditions, and they may also hold potential to produce benefits in patients with alcohol problems.
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- Markus Heilig
- Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience, Linköping University, and Department of Psychiatry, Linköping University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden
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- Department of Psychology and Center on Alcohol, Substance Use and Addictions, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
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- Department of Psychology, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Clinical Psychoneuroendocrinology and Neuropsychopharmacology Section, Translational Addiction Medicine Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Division of Intramural Clinical and Biological Research, NIH, Baltimore and Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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Månsson A, Danielsson AK, Sjöqvist H, Glatz T, Lundin A, Wallhed Finn S. Pharmacotherapy for alcohol use disorder among adults with medical disorders in Sweden. Addict Sci Clin Pract 2024; 19:41. [PMID: 38764075 PMCID: PMC11103816 DOI: 10.1186/s13722-024-00471-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2023] [Accepted: 05/06/2024] [Indexed: 05/21/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Alcohol-attributable medical disorders are prevalent among individuals with alcohol use disorder (AUD). However, there is a lack of research on prescriptions of pharmacological treatment for AUD in those with comorbid conditions. This study aims to investigate the utilization of pharmacological treatment (acamprosate, disulfiram and naltrexone) in specialist care among patients with AUD and comorbid medical diagnoses. METHODS This was a descriptive register-based Swedish national cohort study including 132,728 adults diagnosed with AUD (N = 270,933) between 2007 and 2015. The exposure was alcohol-attributable categories of comorbid medical diagnoses. Odds ratios (OR) were calculated using mixed-effect logistic regression analyses for any filled prescription of acamprosate, disulfiram or oral naltrexone within 12 months post AUD diagnosis. RESULTS Individuals with comorbid alcohol-attributable medical diagnoses had lower odds of filling prescriptions for any type of AUD pharmacotherapy compared to those without such comorbidities. Cardiovascular (OR = 0.41 [95% CI: 0.39-0.43]), neurological (OR = 0.52 [95% CI: 0.48-0.56]) and gastrointestinal (OR = 0.57 [95% CI: 0.54-0.60]) diseases were associated with the lowest rates of prescription receipt. The presence of diagnoses which are contraindications to AUD pharmacotherapy did not fully explain the low prescription rate. CONCLUSION There is a substantial underutilization of AUD pharmacotherapy in patients with AUD and comorbid medical disorders in specialist care. Increasing the provision of pharmacotherapy to this group of patients is essential and may prevent morbidity and mortality. There is a need to further understand barriers to medical treatment both from the patient and prescriber perspective.
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- Anastasia Månsson
- Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 171 77, Sweden.
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- Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 171 77, Sweden
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- Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 171 77, Sweden
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute of Public Health, Charitéplatz 1, Berlin, 10117, Germany
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- Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 171 77, Sweden
- Centre for Epidemiology and Community Medicine, Stockholm Region, Stockholm, 171 77, Sweden
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- Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 171 77, Sweden
- Mottagningen för alkohol och hälsa, Stockholm Center for Dependency Disorders, Health Care Services, Riddargatan 1, 114 35, Stockholm, Sweden
- Unit of Clinical Alcohol Research (UCAR), University of Southern Denmark, J.B. Winsløws Vej 20, entrance. 220 B, Odense, 5000, Denmark
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Votaw VR, Tuchman FR, Roos CR, Hebden HM, McKay JR, Kiluk BD, Witkiewitz K. Examining cocaine use reductions and long-term outcomes in two clinical trials of continuing care for cocaine dependence. JOURNAL OF SUBSTANCE USE AND ADDICTION TREATMENT 2024; 163:209394. [PMID: 38735481 DOI: 10.1016/j.josat.2024.209394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2023] [Revised: 02/19/2024] [Accepted: 05/09/2024] [Indexed: 05/14/2024]
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BACKGROUND There is a need to identify clinically meaningful non-abstinent endpoints for cocaine use disorder (CUD) clinical trials. In this study, we sought to replicate and extend prior work validating reductions in cocaine use frequency levels as an endpoint by examining associations between reductions in cocaine use frequency and long-term functioning outcomes. METHODS We conducted a secondary analysis of two randomized clinical trials (N = 445; 77.5 % male; mean age = 42.18 years; 86.5 % Black, 10.8 % non-Hispanic white) that evaluated telephone-based continuing care for a 12- and 24-month period. Cocaine use frequency levels, measured with the Timeline Followback, were (1) abstinence (no past-month cocaine use), (2) low-frequency use (1-4 days of use/month), and (3) high-frequency use (5+ days of use/month). RESULTS Among those who completed the 12-month follow-up (n = 392), most reduced from high-frequency use at baseline to abstinence at the 12-month follow-up (n = 243; 62.0 %). An additional 21.2 % (n = 83) reported either high-to-low-frequency use (n = 35; 8.9 %) or low use-to-abstinence (n = 48; 12.2 %); 16.8 % of participants (n = 66) did not change or increased their cocaine frequency level. Compared to those who had no change/increases in frequency levels, at least a one-level reduction from baseline to 12-month follow-up (i.e., high-to-low-frequency use, high-to-abstinence, low-to-abstinence) was concurrently associated with lower levels of negative consequences at the 12-month follow-up and prospectively with lower levels of cocaine use and consequences at 24-month follow-up, with effect sizes in the medium-to-large range. Those who reduced to abstinence generally had fewer drug use consequences at the 12-month follow-up than those who reduced to a low-frequency level; however, these groups did not significantly differ on any outcomes at the 24-month follow-up. CONCLUSIONS Categorical reductions in cocaine use frequency levels, including those short of abstinence, are associated with less cocaine use and lower problem severity up to two years following treatment entry. Low-frequency cocaine use following the initial treatment phase does not appear to forebode worsening functioning, such as escalations in cocaine use.
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- Victoria R Votaw
- Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States of America; Center on Alcohol, Substance use, And Addictions (CASAA), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States of America; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America; Division of Depression and Anxiety Disorders, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, United States of America.
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- Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America
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- Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States of America; Center on Alcohol, Substance use, And Addictions (CASAA), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America; Center of Excellence in Substance Addiction Treatment and Education (CEASATE), Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Philadelphia VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America
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- Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States of America; Center on Alcohol, Substance use, And Addictions (CASAA), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States of America
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Trompeter N, Williamson C, Rona RJ, Carr E, Simms A, Agwuna J, Fear NT, Goodwin L, Murphy D, Shearer J, Leightley D. Shorter communications: Exploring the impact of a brief smartphone-based alcohol intervention app (DrinksRation) on the quality of life of UK military veterans. Behav Res Ther 2024; 177:104540. [PMID: 38598898 DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2024.104540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2023] [Revised: 04/05/2024] [Accepted: 04/05/2024] [Indexed: 04/12/2024]
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Alcohol misuse - defined as consuming more than 14 units of alcohol per week - is a well-established problem among veterans. This study investigated the change in quality of life among help-seeking UK veterans who completed a 28-day brief alcohol intervention delivered via a digital smartphone application (called DrinksRation) and have previously sought clinical help for a mental health disorder. This study was a secondary outcome analysis of data collected during a randomised control trial. In total, 123 UK veterans participated in the study and were randomly allocated to either the intervention or control arm. Participants completed self-report questionnaires regarding their alcohol use and quality of life (WHOQOL-BREF) at baseline, day 28 (end of intervention), day 84, and day 168. At the primary endpoint (day 84), we found significantly greater improvements in the intervention arm compared to the control arm for psychological quality of life (Cohen's d = 0.47), and environmental quality of life (d = 0.34). However, we observed no statistically significant differences between the intervention and control arm for social relationships and physical quality of life. Further, for day 168 we found no significant differences. Findings suggest that DrinksRation can increase quality of life among help-seeking veterans who have previously sought help for a mental health disorder, but the increases were modest and restricted to certain domains. Additional treatment may be needed for long-term and sustained improvements in quality of life.
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- Nora Trompeter
- King's Centre for Military Health Research, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, United Kingdom.
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- King's Centre for Military Health Research, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, United Kingdom.
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- King's Centre for Military Health Research, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, United Kingdom.
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- Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
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- British Army and Academic Department of Military Mental Health, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
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- King's Health Economics, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
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- Academic Department of Military Mental Health, King's College London, London, United Kingdom and King's Centre for Military Health Research, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, United Kingdom.
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- Division of Health Research, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom.
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- King's Centre for Military Health Research, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, United Kingdom and Combat Stress, Leatherhead, United Kingdom.
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- King's Health Economics, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
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- School of Life Course & Population Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King's College London; and King's Centre for Military Health Research, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, United Kingdom.
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Witkiewitz K, Tuchman FR. Designing and testing treatments for alcohol use disorder. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF NEUROBIOLOGY 2024; 175:277-312. [PMID: 38555119 DOI: 10.1016/bs.irn.2024.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/02/2024]
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This chapter provides a succinct overview of several recommendations for the design and analysis of treatments for AUD with a specific focus on increasing rigor and generalizability of treatment studies in order to increase the reach of AUD treatment. We recommend that researchers always register their trials in a clinical trial registry and make the protocol accessible so that the trial can be replicated in future work, follow CONSORT reporting guidelines when reporting the results of the trial, carefully describe all inclusion and exclusion criteria as well as the randomization scheme, and always use an intent to treat design with attention to analysis of missing data. In addition, we recommend that researchers pay closer attention to recruitment and engagement strategies that increase enrollment and retention of historically marginalized and understudied populations, and we end with a plea for more consideration of implementation science approaches to increase the dissemination and implementation of AUD treatment in real-world settings.
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- Katie Witkiewitz
- Department of Psychology and Center on Alcohol, Substance Use, and Addictions, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States.
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- Department of Psychology and Center on Alcohol, Substance Use, and Addictions, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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Ingesson-Hammarberg S, Jayaram-Lindström N, Hammarberg A. Predictors of treatment outcome for individuals with alcohol use disorder with a goal of controlled drinking. Addict Sci Clin Pract 2024; 19:12. [PMID: 38388959 PMCID: PMC10882804 DOI: 10.1186/s13722-024-00443-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2023] [Accepted: 02/05/2024] [Indexed: 02/24/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Research is lacking on predictors of outcome for the treatment of alcohol use disorder (AUD) with a goal of controlled drinking (CD). The aim of the study was to investigate one-year outcomes of an RCT, investigating Behavioral Self-Control Training (BSCT) and Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET) and predictors of positive outcome for weekly alcohol consumption, CD and symptom reduction in AUD. METHODS This study is based on secondary analyses from a randomized controlled trial including 250 individuals with AUD (52% men) recruited from three specialized addiction clinics in Stockholm, Sweden. Linear and logistic mixed regression models were used for outcomes at 52 weeks, and linear and logistic regression models for the predictor analyses. RESULTS BSCT was superior to MET for the change between baseline to 52 weeks for the outcome of CD, defined as low-risk drinking below ten standard drinks per week for both genders (p = 0.048). A total of 57% of individuals in BSCT attained a level of CD, as opposed to 43% in MET. Females were significantly better in attaining low-risk drinking levels compared to men. The predictor for obtaining CD and reducing weekly alcohol consumption, was a lower baseline alcohol consumption. Predictors of symptom reduction in AUD were lower baseline level of AUD, and a lower self-rated impaired control over alcohol consumption. CONCLUSIONS BSCT was superior to MET in obtaining CD levels, and women were superior to men for the same outcome. The study corroborated baseline consumption levels as an important predictor of outcome in CD treatments. The study contributes with important knowledge on key treatment targets, and knowledge to support and advice patients in planning for treatment with a goal of controlled drinking. TRIAL REGISTRATION The original study was registered retrospectively at isrtcn.com (14539251).
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- Stina Ingesson-Hammarberg
- Centre for Psychiatry Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, & Stockholm Health Care Services, Region Stockholm, Norra Stationsgatan 69, 113 64, Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Centre for Psychiatry Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, & Stockholm Health Care Services, Region Stockholm, Norra Stationsgatan 69, 113 64, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre for Psychiatry Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, & Stockholm Health Care Services, Region Stockholm, Norra Stationsgatan 69, 113 64, Stockholm, Sweden
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Luk JW, Satre DD, Cheung R, Wong RJ, Monto A, Chen JY, Batki SL, Ostacher MJ, Snyder HR, Shui AM, Liao M, Haight CG, Khalili M. Problematic alcohol use and its impact on liver disease quality of life in a multicenter study of patients with cirrhosis. Hepatol Commun 2024; 8:e0379. [PMID: 38315141 PMCID: PMC10843394 DOI: 10.1097/hc9.0000000000000379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2023] [Accepted: 12/18/2023] [Indexed: 02/07/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Management of cirrhosis is challenging and has been complicated by the COVID-19 pandemic due to decreased access to care, increased psychological distress, and alcohol misuse. Recently, The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism has broadened the definition of recovery from alcohol use disorder to include quality of life (QoL) as an indicator of recovery. This study examined the associations of alcohol-associated cirrhosis etiology and problematic drinking with liver disease QoL (LDQoL). METHODS Patients with cirrhosis (N=329) were recruited from 3 sites (63% from 2 Veterans Affairs Health Care Systems and 37% from 1 safety net hospital) serving populations that are economically or socially marginalized. Cirrhosis etiology was ascertained by chart review of medical records. Problematic drinking was defined by ≥8 on the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test. Multivariable general linear modeling adjusting for age, sex, race/ethnicity, site, pandemic-related stress, and history of anxiety/depressive disorder were conducted. Sensitivity analyses further adjusted for indicators of liver disease severity. RESULTS Participants were on average 64.6 years old, 17% female, 58% non-White, 44% with alcohol-associated cirrhosis, and 17% with problematic drinking. Problematic drinking was significantly associated with worse LDQoL scores in the overall scale and in the memory/concentration and health distress subscales. These associations remained significant after adjusting for indicators of liver disease severity, including Model for End-Stage Liver Disease-Sodium score and decompensated cirrhosis status. CONCLUSIONS Among patients with cirrhosis, problematic drinking was associated with worse LDQoL, especially in the domains of memory/concentration and health distress. Assessment and awareness of cognitive deficits and negative emotionality within the context of cirrhosis and problematic drinking may help clinicians provide better integrated care for this population.
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- Jeremy W. Luk
- Office of the Clinical Director, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
- Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Division of Research, Oakland, California, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
- Gastroenterology Section, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
- Gastroenterology Section, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Veterans Affairs San Francisco Health Care System, San Francisco, California, USA
- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
- Liver Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
- Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Zuckerberg San Francisco General, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
- Mental Health Service, Veterans Affairs San Francisco Health Care System, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Gastroenterology Section, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Veterans Affairs San Francisco Health Care System, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
- Liver Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
- Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Zuckerberg San Francisco General, San Francisco, California, USA
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Tuchman FR, Hallgren KA, Richards DK, Aldridge A, Anton RK, Aubin HJ, Kranzler HR, Mann K, O’Malley SS, Witkiewitz K. Reductions in WHO risk drinking levels correlate with alcohol craving among individuals with alcohol use disorder. ALCOHOL, CLINICAL & EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH 2024; 48:420-429. [PMID: 38149364 PMCID: PMC10922776 DOI: 10.1111/acer.15257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2023] [Revised: 10/26/2023] [Accepted: 12/14/2023] [Indexed: 12/28/2023]
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BACKGROUND Abstinence has historically been considered the preferred goal of alcohol use disorder (AUD) treatment. However, most individuals with AUD do not want to abstain and many are able to reduce their drinking successfully. Craving is often a target of pharmacological and behavioral interventions for AUD, and reductions in craving may signal recovery. Whether reductions in drinking during AUD treatment are associated with reductions in craving has not been well examined. METHODS We conducted secondary analyses of data from three AUD clinical trials (N's= 1327, 346, and 200). Drinking reductions from baseline to the end of treatment were measured as changes in World Health Organization (WHO) risk drinking levels; alcohol craving was measured using validated self-report measures. Regression analyses tested whether drinking reductions were associated with end-of-treatment craving reductions; moderation analyses tested whether associations between drinking reduction and end-of-treatment craving differed across AUD severity. RESULTS Reductions of at least 1 or at least 2 WHO risk drinking levels were associated with lower craving (all p's < 0.05). Results were substantively similar after removing abstainers at the end-of-treatment. Associations between drinking reductions and craving were generally not moderated by AUD severity. CONCLUSIONS Individuals with WHO risk drinking level reductions reported significantly lower craving, as compared to those who did not achieve meaningful reductions in drinking. The results demonstrate the utility of WHO risk drinking levels as AUD clinical trial endpoints and provide evidence that drinking reductions mitigate craving.
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- Felicia R. Tuchman
- Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, MSC 03-2220, Albuquerque, NM, USA
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- University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Center on Alcohol, Substance use, And Addictions (CASAA), University of New Mexico, MSC11-6280, Albuquerque, NM, USA
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- Behavioral Health Financing, Economics and Evaluation Department, Research Triangle Institute (RTI) International, Durham, NC, USA
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- Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Department, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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- AP-HP. Université Paris Saclay, French Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), Paris, Île-de-France, FRANCE
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- Center for Studies of Addiction, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Central Institute for Mental Health Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, DE
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, MSC 03-2220, Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Center on Alcohol, Substance use, And Addictions (CASAA), University of New Mexico, MSC11-6280, Albuquerque, NM, USA
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Kim HK, Melamed OC, Sloan M, Husain MI, Rodie DJ, Perivolaris A, Kurdyak P, Oslin DW, Geist R, Selby P, Mulsant BH. A computer-assisted telephone collaborative care intervention provided by lay providers for the treatment of comorbid depression and at-risk drinking: Analysis of a randomized controlled trial. JOURNAL OF SUBSTANCE USE AND ADDICTION TREATMENT 2024; 157:209207. [PMID: 37939903 DOI: 10.1016/j.josat.2023.209207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2023] [Revised: 06/08/2023] [Accepted: 10/24/2023] [Indexed: 11/10/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Virtual collaborative care for people with comorbid depression and at-risk drinking lacks strong evidence. Our aim was to assess the impact of 12 months of telephone collaborative care (tCC) versus enhanced usual care (eUC) on depression and drinking. METHODS We performed a secondary analysis of the Primary care Assessment and Research of a Telephone intervention for Neuropsychiatric conditions with Education and Resources study (PARTNERs), a blinded randomized controlled trial. We examined 144 participants with comorbid depression and at-risk drinking, of which 129 were from the original sample whose data have been published, and 15 were studied since the original report had been published. PARTNERs compared eUC consisting of usual care plus assessment of symptoms at baseline, and 4, 8, and 12 months later vs. tCC consisting of eUC plus telephone-based coaching and symptom monitoring provided by a lay mental health technician to patients supervised by a psychiatrist. The study assessed depression response and remission using logistic regression; we assessed trajectory of drinking using Generalized-estimating equations (GEE). Baseline factors associated with likelihood of not exceeding number of drinks at 12 months were identified using decision trees. RESULTS tCC produced a faster decline in the number of drinks than eUC (Wald Χ2 = 9.47, p = 0.02). However, drinking and depression outcomes did not differ significantly between the two groups at the end of treatment. Higher alcohol consumption at baseline (≥18 standard drinks per week in the tCC group and ≥11 standard drinks per week in the eUC group) was associated with a higher likelihood of having at-risk drinking after 12 months of treatment. CONCLUSIONS Our findings suggest that, compared to eUC, tCC may accelerate drinking reductions in patients with comorbid depression and at-risk drinking. Both treatments were equally effective at the end of treatment for both depression and drinking outcomes.
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- Helena K Kim
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Family and community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Psychological Clinical Science, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Psychological Clinical Science, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto, ON, Canada
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- University of Pennsylvania and the Department of Veteran Affairs, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Family and community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto, ON, Canada; Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto, ON, Canada.
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Durazzo TC, Stephens LH, Kraybill EP, May AC, Meyerhoff DJ. Regional cortical brain volumes at treatment entry relates to post treatment WHO risk drinking levels in those with alcohol use disorder. Drug Alcohol Depend 2024; 255:111082. [PMID: 38219355 PMCID: PMC10895709 DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2024.111082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2023] [Revised: 12/08/2023] [Accepted: 12/28/2023] [Indexed: 01/16/2024]
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BACKGROUND Abstinence following treatment for alcohol use disorder (AUD) is associated with significant improvements in psychiatric and physical health, however, recent studies suggest resumption of low risk levels of alcohol use can also be beneficial. The present study assessed whether post-treatment levels of alcohol use were associated with cortical brain volumedifferences at treatment entry. METHODS Individuals seeking treatment for AUD (n=75) and light/non-drinking controls (LN, n=51) underwent 1.5T magnetic resonance imaging. The volumes of 34 bilateral cortical regions of interest (ROIs) were quantitated via FreeSurfer. Individuals with AUD were classified according to post-treatment alcohol consumption using the WHO risk drinking levels (abstainers: AB; low risk: RL; or higher risk: RH). Regional volumes for AB, RL and RH, at treatment entry, were compared to LN. RESULTS Relative to LN, AB demonstrated smaller volumes in 18/68 (26%), RL in 24/68 (35%) and RH in 34/68 (50%) ROIs with the largest magnitude volume differences observed between RH and LN. RH and RL reported a higher frequency of depressive disorders than AB. Among RH and RL, level of depressive and anxiety symptomatology were associated with daily number of drinks consumed after treatment. CONCLUSIONS Volumetric differences, at treatment entry, in brain regions implicated in executive function and salience networks corresponded with post-treatment alcohol consumption levels suggesting that pre-existing differences in neural integrity may contribute to treatment outcomes. Depressive and anxiety symptomatology was also associated with brain morphometrics and alcohol use patterns, highlighting the importance of effectively targeting these conditions during AUD treatment.
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- Timothy C Durazzo
- Sierra-Pacific Mental Illness Research and Education Clinical Centers, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, USA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
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- Sierra-Pacific Mental Illness Research and Education Clinical Centers, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, USA
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- Sierra-Pacific Mental Illness Research and Education Clinical Centers, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, USA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
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- Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIND), San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA; Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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Donato S, Ray LA. Neurobiology and the Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorder: A Review of the Evidence Base. Subst Abuse Rehabil 2023; 14:157-166. [PMID: 38026786 PMCID: PMC10657770 DOI: 10.2147/sar.s409943] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2023] [Accepted: 10/17/2023] [Indexed: 12/01/2023] Open
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Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a significant public health concern, accounting for a majority of substance use disorder cases in the United States. Treatment for AUD is complex, with multiple intervention points that may be further complicated by genotype and phenotype, resulting in diverse outcomes. In order to better understand the current landscape of AUD treatment, the present review considers different etiological models of AUD and assesses the evidence base of current treatment options. The first section of this review summarizes various etiological models of AUD and presents different approaches to classifying the disorder. Various theories, including neurobiological models, are discussed. The second section presents a comprehensive analysis of available treatment options for AUD, encompassing behavioral and pharmacological interventions and their current evidence base. Finally, this review discusses the ongoing treatment gap and significant factors contributing to low treatment utilization. Together, this review provides an overview of different etiological processes and mechanisms of AUD, as well as summarizes the literature on key treatment approaches. By integrating historical, theoretical, and empirical data, this review aims to inform both researchers and providers with valuable insights to advance AUD treatment approaches and narrow the treatment gap.
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- Suzanna Donato
- Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Brain Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Russell AM, Montemayor BN, Chiang SC, Milaham PJ, Barry AE, Lin HC, Bergman BG, Massey PM. Characterizing Twitter chatter about temporary alcohol abstinence during "Dry January". Alcohol Alcohol 2023; 58:589-598. [PMID: 37652745 PMCID: PMC10642608 DOI: 10.1093/alcalc/agad057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2023] [Revised: 08/10/2023] [Accepted: 08/11/2023] [Indexed: 09/02/2023] Open
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With roots as a public health campaign in the United Kingdom, "Dry January" is a temporary alcohol abstinence initiative encouraging participants to abstain from alcohol use during the month of January. Dry January has become a cultural phenomenon, gaining increasing news media attention and social media engagement. Given the utility of capturing naturalistic discussions around health topics on social media, we examined Twitter chatter about Dry January and associated temporary abstinence experiences. Public tweets were collected containing the search terms "dry january" or "dryjanuary" posted between 15 December and 15 February across 3 years (2020-2). A random subsample stratified by year (n = 3145) was pulled for manual content analysis by trained coders. Final codebook accounted for user sentiment toward Dry January, user account type, and themes related to Dry January participation. Engagement metadata (e.g. likes) were also collected. Though user sentiment was mixed, most tweets expressed positive or neutral sentiment toward Dry January (74.7%). Common themes included encouragement and support for Dry January participation (14.1%), experimentation with and promotion of nonalcoholic drinks (14.0%), and benefits derived from Dry January participation (10.4%). While there is promise in the movement to promote positive alcohol-related behavior change, increased efforts to deliver the campaign within a public health context are needed. Health communication campaigns designed to inform participants about evidence-based treatment and recovery support services proven to help people quit or cut down on their drinking are likely to maximize benefits.
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- Alex M Russell
- Recovery Research Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 151 Merrimac St., Floor 4, Boston, MA 02114, United States
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- Department of Health Behavior, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, United States
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- Department of Health Behavior, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, United States
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- Department of Health, Human Performance and Recreation, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, United States
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- Department of Health Behavior, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, United States
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- Department of Applied Health Science, School of Public Health, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, United States
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- Recovery Research Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 151 Merrimac St., Floor 4, Boston, MA 02114, United States
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- Department of Community Health Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States
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Havlik JL, Rhee TG, Rosenheck RA. Characterization of quality of life among individuals with current treated, untreated, and past alcohol use disorder. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE 2023; 49:787-798. [PMID: 37788415 DOI: 10.1080/00952990.2023.2245125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2023] [Accepted: 07/28/2023] [Indexed: 10/05/2023]
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Background: Understanding health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among those who seek treatment for their alcohol use disorder (AUD) and those not seeking AUD treatment is critical to decreasing morbidity and mortality, yet HRQOL in these groups has been little characterized.Objectives: Characterize HRQOL among those who meet diagnostic criteria for AUD, both receiving and not receiving treatment.Methods: This analysis used the NESARC-III database (n = 36,309; female = 56.3%), a nationally representative survey of US adults, to compare four groups: those treated for current AUD; those untreated for current AUD; those with past AUD only; and those who never met criteria for AUD. Multiple regression analysis was used to account for differences in sociodemographic and other behavioral factors across these groups. HRQOL was operationalized using annual quality-adjusted life years (QALYs).Results: Patients treated for past-year AUD had a deficit of 0.07 QALYs/year compared to those who never met criteria for AUD (P < .001). They retained a still clinically meaningful 0.03 QALYs/year deficit after controlling for concomitant psychiatric disorders and other behavioral health factors (P < .001). Those with past-year untreated AUD or past AUD had a near-zero difference in QALYs compared with those who never met criteria for AUD.Conclusion: These findings suggest that previously-reported differences in HRQOL associated with AUD may be due to the problems of the relatively small sub-group who seek treatment. Clinicians seeking to treat those with currently untreated AUD may do better to focus on the latent potential health effects of AUD instead of current HRQOL concerns.
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- John L Havlik
- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA
- Department of Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
- Department of Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, CT, USA
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Song M, Song YM. The Effect of Shared Decision-Making by Mental Health Nurses on Medication Adherence in Patients with Alcohol Use Disorders: Provider-Patient Communication Pathway Model. JOURNAL OF HEALTH COMMUNICATION 2023; 28:777-788. [PMID: 37823392 DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2023.2268561] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/13/2023]
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The involvement of patients with mental health issues in their own treatment decision-making has often been overlooked. This study aimed to investigate the impact of shared decision-making between mental health nurses and patients with alcohol use disorders (AUD) on medication adherence. The provider-patient communication pathway model was utilized to examine the ways in which therapeutic communication strategies employed by mental health nurses positively influence medication adherence. The study employed a percentile bootstrap method and pairwise comparison tests in structural equation modeling. The results revealed that shared decision-making between AUD patients and mental health nurses directly enhanced medication adherence, as well as indirectly influenced adherence through the mediating factors of therapeutic alliance and alcohol abstinence self-efficacy. These findings hold both theoretical and practical implications for involving patients with AUD in therapeutic decision-making within psychiatric and mental health nursing settings, as well as for improving medication adherence among this patient population.
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- MoonJU Song
- Division of Admission Management and Policy Development, National Center for Mental Health, Seoul, Republic of Korea
- College of Nursing, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Nursing, Honam University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
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Barbosa C, Dowd WN, Karriker-Jaffe KJ, Zarkin G. Modeling the impact of a long-term horizon and multiple treatment episodes on estimates of the cost-effectiveness of alcohol treatment in the United States. ALCOHOL, CLINICAL & EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH 2023; 47:2121-2137. [PMID: 38226759 PMCID: PMC10792252 DOI: 10.1111/acer.15186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2023] [Revised: 08/19/2023] [Accepted: 08/27/2023] [Indexed: 01/17/2024]
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BACKGROUND Most clinical studies of alcohol use disorder (AUD) treatment have short follow-up periods, underestimating the full benefits of alcohol treatment. Furthermore, clinical studies only consider one treatment cycle and do not account for the need for multiple episodes to treat a chronic recurrent condition. METHODS A validated microsimulation model of the long-term drinking patterns of people with AUD in the United States simulated 10,000 individuals resembling those from a large clinical trial. The model was used to assess the impact of (1) 1-year, 5-year, and lifetime horizon on alcohol treatment cost-effectiveness estimates and (2) no, one, two, four, and unlimited additional treatment episodes on alcohol treatment cost-effectiveness estimates. Model outcomes included healthcare costs, crime costs, labor market productivity, life expectancy, quality-adjusted life years (QALYs), alcohol-related hospitalizations, and deaths. Cost-effectiveness analyses were conducted for two perspectives: a healthcare perspective that included costs from hospitalization and AUD treatment, and a broader societal perspective that also included crime costs and productivity. RESULTS The incremental cost per additional QALY gained for alcohol treatment compared with no treatment decreased from $55,590 after 1 year to $78 when healthcare costs and QALYs were tracked over the lifetime, that is, treatment became more cost effective. Treatment was cost saving for any time frame when the impacts on crime and labor productivity were also accounted for in a societal perspective. Access to multiple treatment episodes dominated (i.e., it was more effective and less costly) than no-treatment and one-episode scenarios. From a healthcare perspective, incremental costs per additional QALY for increasing from a maximum of two to four treatment episodes was $499 and from four to unlimited episodes was $5049. The unlimited treatment scenario dominated all others from a societal perspective. Results were robust in sensitivity analyses. CONCLUSIONS A long-term perspective and multiple episodes of alcohol treatment improve cost-effectiveness estimates. When societal impacts are included, alcohol treatment is cost saving. Results support the value of alcohol treatment.
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- RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC, United
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- RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC, United
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May AC, Meyerhoff DJ, Durazzo TC. Non-abstinent recovery in alcohol use disorder is associated with greater regional cortical volumes than heavy drinking. ALCOHOL, CLINICAL & EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH 2023; 47:1850-1858. [PMID: 37864525 DOI: 10.1111/acer.15169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2023] [Revised: 07/14/2023] [Accepted: 08/02/2023] [Indexed: 10/23/2023]
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BACKGROUND Harm-reduction (i.e., non-abstinent recovery) approaches to substance use treatment have garnered increasing attention. Reduced levels of alcohol consumption post-treatment have been associated with better psychosocial functioning and physical health, yet less is known regarding differences in brain structures associated with varying levels of alcohol consumption. This study investigated regional cortical volumes after alcohol use disorder (AUD) treatment among individuals who achieved complete abstinence and those who returned to lower and higher levels of consumption. METHODS Data were collected from individuals with AUD (n = 68) approximately 8 months after the initiation of treatment. Using risk drinking levels defined by the World Health Organization, participants were classified as abstaining (AB) or relapsing with low (RL) or higher (RH) levels. Data were also obtained from 34 age-matched light/non-drinking controls (LN). All participants completed a 1.5 T magnetic resonance imaging session and volumes for 34 bilateral cortical regions of interest were quantitated with FreeSurfer. Generalized linear models were used to examine group differences in cortical volume. All group findings are significant at an FDR-corrected value of 0.018. RESULTS Adjusting for age and intracranial volume, significant group differences were found in 13/34 cortical regions. AB showed greater volumes than RL in 2/13 regions and RH in 6/13 regions. RH demonstrated significantly smaller volumes than LN in 12/13 ROIs, whereas RL differed from LN in 9/13 regions. RH and RL differed in only two cortical regions. CONCLUSIONS Individuals who consumed low-risk levels of alcohol post-treatment exhibited regional cortical volumes more similar to abstainers than individuals who returned to higher-risk levels. This suggests that low-risk levels of alcohol consumption are associated with brain integrity that is comparable to that seen with complete abstinence. Given the previously demonstrated improvement in psychosocial and physical health with reduced levels of alcohol consumption post-treatment, harm reduction may be a beneficial and more attainable goal for some individuals with AUD who are seeking treatment.
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- A C May
- Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC), Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, USA
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
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- Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIND), San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC), Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, USA
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
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Montes KS, Dela Cruz M, Vink LH, Jaime SV, Almeida BJ, Aguiluz DY, Arca D, Smith AM, Kapila-Ramirez A, Figueroa-Sierra NC, Infante G. A Mixed-Methods Examination of Language Used by College Students to Describe Alcohol Recovery. HEALTH EDUCATION & BEHAVIOR 2023; 50:629-636. [PMID: 37165982 DOI: 10.1177/10901981231167903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Given that approximately 5% of the U.S. population is currently attending college, research is needed to better understand the language that college students use to describe alcohol recovery regardless of their current drinking behavior. College student perceptions of alcohol recovery are important, given that students may experience an alcohol use disorder themselves or may encounter others with an alcohol use disorder. Research on college student perceptions of alcohol recovery in the literature is scarce but is needed to better understand the alcohol recovery process. The current mixed-methods study examines language that college students use to describe alcohol recovery based on findings from two focus group interviews. The focus groups were conducted with college students who reported using alcohol at least once in their lifetime. All participants (N = 18) were asked questions regarding language perceived to be associated with alcohol recovery. Data were examined within a thematic analysis framework. The three central themes related to alcohol recovery that emerged in the study were harm reduction-based recovery, abstinence-based recovery, and social correlates of recovery. College students rated the terms "recovered," "drinking reduction," and "sobriety" as being highly representative of being in recovery, whereas the terms "bars" and "light drinker" were identified as not being representative of recovery. A better understanding of these themes will help the field understand the language that college students use to describe alcohol recovery.
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- Kevin S Montes
- California State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA, USA
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- California State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA, USA
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- California State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA, USA
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- California State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA, USA
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- California State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA, USA
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- California State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA, USA
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- California State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA, USA
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Wang Z, Luo C, Zhou EW, Sandhu AF, Yuan X, Williams GE, Cheng J, Sinha B, Akbar M, Bhattacharya P, Zhou S, Song BJ, Wang X. Molecular Toxicology and Pathophysiology of Comorbid Alcohol Use Disorder and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Associated with Traumatic Brain Injury. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:ijms24108805. [PMID: 37240148 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24108805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2023] [Revised: 05/05/2023] [Accepted: 05/08/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023] Open
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The increasing comorbidity of alcohol use disorder (AUD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) associated with traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a serious medical, economic, and social issue. However, the molecular toxicology and pathophysiological mechanisms of comorbid AUD and PTSD are not well understood and the identification of the comorbidity state markers is significantly challenging. This review summarizes the main characteristics of comorbidity between AUD and PTSD (AUD/PTSD) and highlights the significance of a comprehensive understanding of the molecular toxicology and pathophysiological mechanisms of AUD/PTSD, particularly following TBI, with a focus on the role of metabolomics, inflammation, neuroendocrine, signal transduction pathways, and genetic regulation. Instead of a separate disease state, a comprehensive examination of comorbid AUD and PTSD is emphasized by considering additive and synergistic interactions between the two diseases. Finally, we propose several hypotheses of molecular mechanisms for AUD/PTSD and discuss potential future research directions that may provide new insights and translational application opportunities.
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- Zufeng Wang
- Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Department of Forensic Medicine, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Department of Forensic Medicine, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Division of Neuroscience & Behavior, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD 20892, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar 382355, Gujarat, India
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- Harvard Medical School, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Section of Molecular Pharmacology and Toxicology, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD 20892, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Murphy CE, Coralic Z, Wang RC, Montoy JCC, Ramirez B, Raven MC. Extended-Release Naltrexone and Case Management for Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorder in the Emergency Department. Ann Emerg Med 2023; 81:440-449. [PMID: 36328851 DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2022.08.453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2022] [Revised: 08/01/2022] [Accepted: 08/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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STUDY OBJECTIVE To assess the feasibility of initiating treatment for alcohol use disorder with extended-release naltrexone and case management services in the emergency department (ED) and measure the intervention's impact on daily alcohol consumption and quality of life. METHODS This is a 12-week prospective open-label single-arm study of a multimodal treatment for alcohol use disorder consisting of monthly extended-release naltrexone injections and case management services initiated at an urban academic ED. Participants were actively drinking adult patients in ED with known or suspected alcohol use disorder and an AUDIT-C score more than 4. The main feasibility outcomes included the rates of participant enrollment, retention in the study, and continuing treatment after study completion. Efficacy outcomes were the change in daily alcohol consumption (drinks per day; 14 g ethanol per drink), measured by a 14-day timeline followback, and the change in quality of life measured with a single-item Kemp quality of life scale. RESULTS One hundred seventy-nine patients were approached, and 32 were enrolled (18%). Of the 32 enrolled patients, 25 (78%) completed all visits, and 22 (69%) continued naltrexone after the trial. The mean baseline daily alcohol consumption was 7.6 drinks per day (interquartile range, 4.5, 13.4), and the mean quality of life was 3.6 (SD 1.7) on a 7-point scale. The median daily alcohol consumption change was -7.5 drinks per day (Hodges-Lehmann 95% confidence interval -8.6, -5.9). The mean quality of life change was 1.2 points (95% confidence interval 0.5, 1.9; P<.01). CONCLUSION We found that initiation of treatment of alcohol use disorder with extended-release naltrexone and case management is feasible in an ED setting and observed significant reductions in drinking with improved quality of life in the short term. Multicenter randomized controlled trials are needed to further validate these findings.
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- Charles E Murphy
- Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA.
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA; Department of Pharmacy, University of California, San Francisco, CA
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA; Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco, CA
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Leggio L, Mellinger JL. Alcohol use disorder in community management of chronic liver diseases. Hepatology 2023; 77:1006-1021. [PMID: 35434815 DOI: 10.1002/hep.32531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2022] [Revised: 04/12/2022] [Accepted: 04/14/2022] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Rising rates of alcohol use disorder (AUD) combined with increases in alcohol-related liver disease (ALD) and other liver disease have resulted in the need to develop alcohol management strategies at all levels of patient care. For those with pre-existing liver disease, whether ALD or others, attention to alcohol use treatment and abstinence becomes critical to avoiding worsening liver-related consequences. Modalities to help patients reduce or stop alcohol include screening/brief intervention/referral to treatment, various therapeutic modalities including cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational enhancement therapy and 12-step facilitation, and alcohol relapse prevention medications. Harm reduction approaches versus total abstinence may be considered, but for those with existing ALD, particularly advanced ALD (cirrhosis or acute alcoholic hepatitis), total abstinence from alcohol is the recommendation, given clear data that ongoing alcohol use worsens mortality and liver-related morbidity. For certain populations, alcohol cessation is even more critically important. For those with hepatitis C or NAFLD, alcohol use accelerates negative liver-related outcomes. In women, alcohol use accelerates liver damage and results in worsened liver-related mortality. Efforts to integrate AUD and liver disease care are urgently needed and can occur at several levels, with establishment of multidisciplinary ALD clinics for fully integrated co-management as an important goal.
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- Lorenzo Leggio
- Clinical Psychoneuroendocrinology and Neuropsychopharmacology Section , Translational Addiction Medicine Branch , National Institute on Drug Abuse and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism , National Institutes of Health , Baltimore and Bethesda , Maryland , USA
- Medication Development Program , National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program , National Institutes of Health , Baltimore , Maryland , USA
- Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies , Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences , School of Public Health , Brown University , Providence , Rhode Island , USA
- Division of Addiction Medicine , Department of Medicine , School of Medicine , Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore , Maryland , USA
- Department of Neuroscience , Georgetown University Medical Center , Washington , DC , USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine , Michigan Medicine , Ann Arbor , Michigan , USA
- Department of Psychiatry , Michigan Medicine , Ann Arbor , Michigan , USA
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Alcohol is one of the most widely consumed psychoactive drugs globally. Hazardous drinking, defined by quantity and frequency of consumption, is associated with acute and chronic morbidity. Alcohol use disorders (AUDs) are psychiatric syndromes characterized by impaired control over drinking and other symptoms. Contemporary aetiological perspectives on AUDs apply a biopsychosocial framework that emphasizes the interplay of genetics, neurobiology, psychology, and an individual's social and societal context. There is strong evidence that AUDs are genetically influenced, but with a complex polygenic architecture. Likewise, there is robust evidence for environmental influences, such as adverse childhood exposures and maladaptive developmental trajectories. Well-established biological and psychological determinants of AUDs include neuroadaptive changes following persistent use, differences in brain structure and function, and motivational determinants including overvaluation of alcohol reinforcement, acute effects of environmental triggers and stress, elevations in multiple facets of impulsivity, and lack of alternative reinforcers. Social factors include bidirectional roles of social networks and sociocultural influences, such as public health control strategies and social determinants of health. An array of evidence-based approaches for reducing alcohol harms are available, including screening, pharmacotherapies, psychological interventions and policy strategies, but are substantially underused. Priorities for the field include translating advances in basic biobehavioural research into novel clinical applications and, in turn, promoting widespread implementation of evidence-based clinical approaches in practice and health-care systems.
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Nieto SJ, Enders CK, Witkiewitz K, O'Malley SS, Ray LA. Combination treatment with varenicline and naltrexone reduces World Health Organization risk drinking levels. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 2022; 46:2258-2266. [PMID: 36515648 DOI: 10.1111/acer.14953] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2022] [Revised: 08/10/2022] [Accepted: 09/23/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND The U.S. Food and Drug Administration identifies abstinence and the absence of heavy drinking days as outcomes for pharmacotherapy trials for alcohol use disorder (AUD). However, many individuals with AUD struggle to achieve these outcomes, which may discourage them from seeking treatment. World Health Organization (WHO) risk drinking levels have garnered attention in the alcohol field as potential non-abstinent outcomes for AUD medication trials. Further, testing combination pharmacotherapy for AUD represents an important direction in the field, particularly using medications such as naltrexone and varenicline, which are approved for treating AUD and smoking, respectively. The objective of the current study was to test the utility of the WHO risk drinking levels as a drinking outcome in a randomized clinical trial of combined varenicline and naltrexone for smoking cessation and drinking reduction. These analyses provide additional tests of the efficacy of this combination treatment. METHODS The current study is a secondary analysis of a phase 2, randomized, double-blind clinical trial, wherein participants (N = 165) who were daily smokers and heavy drinkers were randomly assigned to receive either 2 mg/day of varenicline plus 50 mg/day of naltrexone or 2 mg/day of varenicline plus placebo for 12 weeks. Medication effects on 1- and 2-level reductions in WHO risk drinking levels were assessed at 4, 8, and 12 weeks into the active medication period. RESULTS In logistic growth curve models individuals receiving the combined treatment had greater reductions in WHO risk drinking levels than individuals taking varenicline alone when assessed at 4 weeks into the active medication period. Among individuals who were WHO high and very high risk drinkers at baseline, the largest effect sizes favoring combination treatment were at Week 4 for the WHO 2-level reduction outcome (Cohen's h = 0.202) and Week 12 for the WHO 1-level reduction outcome (Cohen's h = 0.244), although these effects did not reach statistical significance. CONCLUSIONS These findings provide evidence that combined varenicline plus naltrexone treatment is effective at reducing WHO risk drinking levels, particularly among individuals who smoke cigarettes daily and drink heavily. These results add to a growing body of literature validating reductions in WHO risk drinking levels as outcomes of alcohol medication trials.
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- Steven J Nieto
- Department of Psychology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.,Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Santos GM, Ikeda J, Coffin P, Walker J, Matheson T, Ali A, McLaughlin M, Jain J, Arenander J, Vittinghoff E, Batki S. Targeted Oral Naltrexone for Mild to Moderate Alcohol Use Disorder Among Sexual and Gender Minority Men: A Randomized Trial. Am J Psychiatry 2022; 179:915-926. [PMID: 36285404 PMCID: PMC10072332 DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.20220335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The authors sought to determine the efficacy of targeted naltrexone in sexual and gender minority men (SGM) who binge drink and have mild to moderate alcohol use disorder. METHODS In a double-blind placebo-controlled trial, a total of 120 SGM who binge drink and have mild to moderate alcohol use disorder were randomized in a 1:1 ratio to receive targeted oral naltrexone (50 mg) or placebo with weekly counseling for 12 weeks. The study's primary endpoints were binge-drinking intensity, defined as 1) number of drinks in the past 30 days; 2) any binge drinking in the past week; 3) number of binge-drinking days in the past week; and 4) number of drinking days in the past week. The study also measured changes in alcohol use with two alcohol biomarker measures: ethyl glucuronide in urine samples and phosphatidylethanol (PEth) in dried blood spot samples. RESULTS Ninety-three percent completed the trial, with 85% of weekly follow-up visits completed. In intention-to-treat analyses, naltrexone was associated with a significantly reduced reported number of binge-drinking days (incidence rate ratio [IRR]=0.74, 95% CI=0.56, 0.98; number needed to treat [NNT]=2), weeks with any binge drinking (IRR=0.83, 95% CI=0.72, 0.96; NNT=7.4), number of drinks per month (IRR=0.69, 95% CI=0.52, 0.91; NNT=5.7 for 10 drinks), and alcohol craving scores (coefficient=-9.25, 95% CI=-17.20, -1.31). In as-treated analyses among those who took their medication on average at least 2.5 days per week (the median frequency in the study), naltrexone reduced any binge drinking (IRR=0.84, 95% CI=0.71, 0.99), number of binge-drinking days (IRR=0.67, 95% CI=0.47, 0.96), and PEth concentrations (coefficient=-55.47, 95% CI=-110.75, -0.20). At 6 months posttreatment, naltrexone had sustained effects in number of drinks per month (IRR=0.69, 95% CI=0.50, 0.97), number of binge-drinking days (IRR=0.67, 95% CI=0.47, 0.95), and any binge drinking in the past week (IRR=0.79, 95% CI=0.63, 0.99). CONCLUSIONS Targeted naltrexone significantly reduced drinking outcomes among SGM with mild to moderate alcohol use disorder during treatment, with sustained effects at 6 months posttreatment. Naltrexone may be an important pharmacotherapy to address binge drinking in populations with mild to moderate alcohol use disorder.
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- Glenn-Milo Santos
- Department of Community Health Systems (Santos, Jain), Division of HIV, Infectious Disease, and Global Medicine (Coffin), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Jain, Batki), and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Vittinghoff), University of California, San Francisco; Center on Substance Use and Health, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco (Santos, Ikeda, Coffin, Walker, Matheson, Ali, McLaughlin); Human Services Department, County of Sonoma, Sonoma, California (Arenander); San Francisco VA Health Care System, San Francisco (Batki)
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- Department of Community Health Systems (Santos, Jain), Division of HIV, Infectious Disease, and Global Medicine (Coffin), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Jain, Batki), and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Vittinghoff), University of California, San Francisco; Center on Substance Use and Health, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco (Santos, Ikeda, Coffin, Walker, Matheson, Ali, McLaughlin); Human Services Department, County of Sonoma, Sonoma, California (Arenander); San Francisco VA Health Care System, San Francisco (Batki)
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- Department of Community Health Systems (Santos, Jain), Division of HIV, Infectious Disease, and Global Medicine (Coffin), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Jain, Batki), and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Vittinghoff), University of California, San Francisco; Center on Substance Use and Health, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco (Santos, Ikeda, Coffin, Walker, Matheson, Ali, McLaughlin); Human Services Department, County of Sonoma, Sonoma, California (Arenander); San Francisco VA Health Care System, San Francisco (Batki)
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- Department of Community Health Systems (Santos, Jain), Division of HIV, Infectious Disease, and Global Medicine (Coffin), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Jain, Batki), and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Vittinghoff), University of California, San Francisco; Center on Substance Use and Health, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco (Santos, Ikeda, Coffin, Walker, Matheson, Ali, McLaughlin); Human Services Department, County of Sonoma, Sonoma, California (Arenander); San Francisco VA Health Care System, San Francisco (Batki)
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- Department of Community Health Systems (Santos, Jain), Division of HIV, Infectious Disease, and Global Medicine (Coffin), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Jain, Batki), and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Vittinghoff), University of California, San Francisco; Center on Substance Use and Health, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco (Santos, Ikeda, Coffin, Walker, Matheson, Ali, McLaughlin); Human Services Department, County of Sonoma, Sonoma, California (Arenander); San Francisco VA Health Care System, San Francisco (Batki)
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- Department of Community Health Systems (Santos, Jain), Division of HIV, Infectious Disease, and Global Medicine (Coffin), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Jain, Batki), and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Vittinghoff), University of California, San Francisco; Center on Substance Use and Health, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco (Santos, Ikeda, Coffin, Walker, Matheson, Ali, McLaughlin); Human Services Department, County of Sonoma, Sonoma, California (Arenander); San Francisco VA Health Care System, San Francisco (Batki)
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- Department of Community Health Systems (Santos, Jain), Division of HIV, Infectious Disease, and Global Medicine (Coffin), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Jain, Batki), and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Vittinghoff), University of California, San Francisco; Center on Substance Use and Health, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco (Santos, Ikeda, Coffin, Walker, Matheson, Ali, McLaughlin); Human Services Department, County of Sonoma, Sonoma, California (Arenander); San Francisco VA Health Care System, San Francisco (Batki)
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- Department of Community Health Systems (Santos, Jain), Division of HIV, Infectious Disease, and Global Medicine (Coffin), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Jain, Batki), and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Vittinghoff), University of California, San Francisco; Center on Substance Use and Health, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco (Santos, Ikeda, Coffin, Walker, Matheson, Ali, McLaughlin); Human Services Department, County of Sonoma, Sonoma, California (Arenander); San Francisco VA Health Care System, San Francisco (Batki)
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- Department of Community Health Systems (Santos, Jain), Division of HIV, Infectious Disease, and Global Medicine (Coffin), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Jain, Batki), and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Vittinghoff), University of California, San Francisco; Center on Substance Use and Health, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco (Santos, Ikeda, Coffin, Walker, Matheson, Ali, McLaughlin); Human Services Department, County of Sonoma, Sonoma, California (Arenander); San Francisco VA Health Care System, San Francisco (Batki)
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- Department of Community Health Systems (Santos, Jain), Division of HIV, Infectious Disease, and Global Medicine (Coffin), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Jain, Batki), and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Vittinghoff), University of California, San Francisco; Center on Substance Use and Health, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco (Santos, Ikeda, Coffin, Walker, Matheson, Ali, McLaughlin); Human Services Department, County of Sonoma, Sonoma, California (Arenander); San Francisco VA Health Care System, San Francisco (Batki)
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- Department of Community Health Systems (Santos, Jain), Division of HIV, Infectious Disease, and Global Medicine (Coffin), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Jain, Batki), and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Vittinghoff), University of California, San Francisco; Center on Substance Use and Health, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco (Santos, Ikeda, Coffin, Walker, Matheson, Ali, McLaughlin); Human Services Department, County of Sonoma, Sonoma, California (Arenander); San Francisco VA Health Care System, San Francisco (Batki)
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Luk JW, Ramchandani VA, Diazgranados N, Schwandt ML, Gunawan T, George DT, Goldman D. Multidimensional Quality of Life Across the Spectrum of Alcohol Use Behavior. PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH AND CLINICAL PRACTICE 2022; 4:92-101. [PMID: 36545505 PMCID: PMC9757500 DOI: 10.1176/appi.prcp.20220023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2022] [Revised: 10/28/2022] [Accepted: 11/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Objective Quality of life (QoL) is inversely associated with alcohol misuse and is a key measure by which recovery from alcohol use disorder (AUD) might be assessed. Yet, the determinants of QoL are scarcely known. The authors examined three ways through which demographic characteristics, familial and early life factors, and psychopathology conferred risks for QoL, including unique direct effects, developmental pathways, and clinical risk Profiles. Methods Cross-sectional data from 1095 adults (50.4% without AUD; 49.6% with AUD) who participated in the NIAAA Natural History Protocol from January 2015 to March 2022 were analyzed. Multivariable regressions, path analysis, and latent Profile analysis were conducted. Results AUD was uniquely associated with lower QoL, and adverse effects of child maltreatment history and psychopathology symptoms on QoL were of similar or larger magnitudes. Mediation analysis indicated family history of AUD and child maltreatment history were indirectly associated with lower QoL through higher attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms, higher depressive symptoms, and positive AUD diagnosis. Latent Profile analysis of an enriched set of clinical characteristics identified four latent Profiles capturing the full range of alcohol use behavior. Latent Profiles with greater severity of familial and early life factors, psychopathology, and problematic drinking showed dose-response associations with lower levels of physical, psychological, social, and environment QoL. Conclusions A constellation of developmental and clinical characteristics disproportionately affects individuals with AUD and is negatively associated with QoL domains. To improve QoL, prevention and intervention need to target multiple factors, including history of child maltreatment, comorbid psychopathology, and problematic drinking itself.
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- Jeremy W. Luk
- Office of the Clinical DirectorNational Institute on Alcohol Abuse and AlcoholismBethesdaMDUSA
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- Human Psychopharmacology LaboratoryNational Institute on Alcohol Abuse and AlcoholismBethesdaMDUSA
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- Office of the Clinical DirectorNational Institute on Alcohol Abuse and AlcoholismBethesdaMDUSA
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- Office of the Clinical DirectorNational Institute on Alcohol Abuse and AlcoholismBethesdaMDUSA
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- Office of the Clinical DirectorNational Institute on Alcohol Abuse and AlcoholismBethesdaMDUSA,Human Psychopharmacology LaboratoryNational Institute on Alcohol Abuse and AlcoholismBethesdaMDUSA
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- Office of the Clinical DirectorNational Institute on Alcohol Abuse and AlcoholismBethesdaMDUSA
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- Office of the Clinical DirectorNational Institute on Alcohol Abuse and AlcoholismBethesdaMDUSA,Laboratory of NeurogeneticsNational Institute on Alcohol Abuse and AlcoholismRockvilleMDUSA
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Carlon HA, Hurlocker MC, Witkiewitz K. Mechanisms of quality-of-life improvement in treatment for alcohol use disorder. J Consult Clin Psychol 2022; 90:601-612. [PMID: 36066862 PMCID: PMC9899433 DOI: 10.1037/ccp0000750] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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OBJECTIVE For individuals in alcohol use disorder (AUD) treatment, many argue that holistic indicators such as quality of life (QoL) should be more consistently used in addition to drinking-related indicators. QoL increases from pre- to post-AUD treatment, but the mechanisms are unclear. The present study examined the roles of positive and negative affect in QoL change during AUD treatment and additionally explored the relationship between QoL change and medication adherence. METHOD We examined the mediating roles of end-of-treatment positive affect (i.e., vigor) and negative affect (i.e., stress and tension) in the relationship between baseline (BL) and 26-week QoL among participants in the Combined Pharmacotherapies and Behavioral Interventions for Alcohol Dependence study randomized to medication management (MM; n = 468) or medication management plus combined behavioral intervention (MMCBI; n = 479) for AUD. We also explored whether changes in QoL were associated with medication adherence. RESULTS Change in psychological health QoL was mediated by increased vigor (i.e., positive affect) and decreased stress, and change in environmental QoL was mediated by decreased stress. There were also differences by treatment group, with stress mediating changes in environmental QoL among participants in MM, and vigor mediating changes in psychological health QoL among participants in MMCBI. Medication adherence was not associated with greater QoL after controlling for posttreatment alcohol use. CONCLUSIONS The present study identified potential mechanisms of QoL change in AUD treatment, thus contributing to the growing knowledge surrounding alternative indicators of treatment success for AUD treatment and recovery. Targeting affective states and stress during treatment may improve QoL and recovery outcomes for persons with AUD. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Hannah A. Carlon
- Center on Alcohol, Substance Use, and Addictions, University of New Mexico, Department of Psychology, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA
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- Center on Alcohol, Substance Use, and Addictions, University of New Mexico, Department of Psychology, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA
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- Center on Alcohol, Substance Use, and Addictions, University of New Mexico, Department of Psychology, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA
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Ni WY, Ng E, Chiang YT, LePage BA, Yang FH, Fang WT. Examine the relationships between health-related quality of life, achievement motivation and job performance: the case of Taiwan hospitality industry. BMC Psychol 2022; 10:172. [PMID: 35831913 PMCID: PMC9281085 DOI: 10.1186/s40359-022-00884-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2022] [Accepted: 07/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background Employees are considered as one of the most important assets in many organizations, and their health well-being is critical to help achieve a sustainable and motivated workforce that is committed to delivering quality hospitality services through enhanced performance and productivity. Given the extent of the challenges and impact presented by the COVID-19 pandemic to the hospitality industry, it is timely to gain further insights on employees’ health well-being. The key purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between health-related quality of life, achievement motivation and job performance in the Taiwan hospitality industry, to acquire a better understanding of their relationships through the job performance pathway models.
Methods This study has used a purposeful sampling technique to select the 10 highest-earning hospitality companies in Taiwan. A total of 292 questionnaires were collected from the employees of these hospitality companies. Based on the multi-dimensional concept of health-related quality of life (HRQoL), the relationships between the five key dimensions (i.e. psychological health, physical health, social health, achievement motivation, and job performance) were examined. To measure these dimensions, the survey questions were adapted from previous research such as the World Health Organization’s WHOQOL-BREF scale, Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire. Partial least squares - Structural Equation Modeling method was used to explore these dimensions, and two job performance pathway models (for manager and staff) were subsequently developed.
Results and conclusions Findings showed that psychological health directly affected the manager’s job performance and physical health had a similar effect through social health. While psychological health had not affected the staff’s job performance, but it could affect achievement motivation through both direct and indirect effects of social health. The pathway models that were developed indicated that the manager’s job performance was mainly affected by psychological health and social health, whereas the key dimension that had affected the staff’s job performance was achievement motivation.
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- Wei-Ya Ni
- Ph.D. Program in Management, Da-Yeh University, No.168, University Rd., Dacun, Changhua, 51591, Taiwan, ROC
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- School of Business, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, 4350, Australia
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- Graduate Institute of Environmental Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, 11677, Taiwan, ROC
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- Graduate Institute of Environmental Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, 11677, Taiwan, ROC.,Academy of Natural Sciences, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA, 19103, USA
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- Department of International Business Management, Da-Yeh University, No.168, University Rd., Dacun, Changhua, 51591, Taiwan, ROC
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- Graduate Institute of Environmental Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, 11677, Taiwan, ROC.
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Aldridge AP, Zarkin GA, Dowd WN, Witkiewitz K, Hasin DS, O'Malley SS, Isenberg K, Anton RF. The Relationship Between Reductions in WHO Risk Drinking Levels During Treatment and Subsequent Healthcare Costs for the ACTIVE Workgroup. J Addict Med 2022; 16:425-432. [PMID: 34864785 PMCID: PMC9163210 DOI: 10.1097/adm.0000000000000925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND Abstinence has historically been considered the target outcome for alcohol use disorder (AUD) treatment, yet recent work has found drinking reductions after AUD treatment, as measured by World Health Organization (WHO) risk drinking levels, are associated with meaningful improvements in functioning, physical health, and quality of life. OBJECTIVES This study extends previous analyses of AUD treatment outcomes by estimating the association between changes in WHO risk drinking levels (very high, high, medium, and low, based on average daily alcohol consumption) and healthcare costs. METHODS Secondary data analysis of the COMBINE study, a multisite randomized clinical trial of acamprosate, naltrexone and behavioral interventions for AUD. Generalized gamma regression models were used to estimate relationships between WHOrisk drinking level reductions over the course of treatment and healthcare costs in the year after treatment (N = 964) and up to 3 years following treatment (N = 651). RESULTS SustainedWHOrisk drinking reductions of 2 or more levels throughout treatment were associated with 52.0% lower healthcare costs ( P < 0.001) in the year following treatment, and 44.0% lower costs ( P < 0.0025) over 3 years. A reduction of exactly 1 level was associated with 34.8% lower costs over 3 years, which was not significant ( P = 0.05). Cost reductions were driven by lower inpatient behavioral health and emergency department utilization. CONCLUSIONS Reduction in WHO risk drinking levels of at least 2 levels was associated with lower healthcare costs over 1 and 3 years. Our results add to literature showing drinking reductions are associated with improvement in health.
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- Arnie P Aldridge
- From the Behavioral Health Research Division, RTI International, NC (APA, GAZ, WND), Department of Psychology, University of NewMexico, 2650 Yale SE MSC11-6280, Albuquerque, NM (KW), Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, NY (DSH), Department of Medicine, Yale University, Connecticut Mental Health Center, New Haven, CT (SSO), Anthem Inc., Indianapolis, IN (KI), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC (RFA)
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Hasin DS, Aharonovich E, Zingman BS, Stohl M, Walsh C, Elliott JC, Fink DS, Knox J, Durant S, Menchaca R, Sharma A. HealthCall: A randomized trial assessing a smartphone enhancement of brief interventions to reduce heavy drinking in HIV care. J Subst Abuse Treat 2022; 138:108733. [PMID: 35131124 PMCID: PMC9167215 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsat.2022.108733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2021] [Revised: 01/07/2022] [Accepted: 01/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Heavy drinking among people living with HIV (PLWH) worsens their health outcomes and disrupts their HIV care. Although brief interventions to reduce heavy drinking in primary care are effective, more extensive intervention may be needed in PLWH with moderate-to-severe alcohol use disorder. Lengthy interventions are not feasible in most HIV primary care settings, and patients seldom follow referrals to outside treatment. Utilizing visual and video features of smartphone technology, we developed the "HealthCall" app to provide continued engagement after brief intervention, reduce drinking, and improve other aspects of HIV care with minimal demands on providers. We conducted a randomized trial of its efficacy. METHODS The study recruited alcohol-dependent PLWH (n = 114) from a large urban HIV clinic. Using a 1:1:1 randomized design, the study assigned patients to: Motivational Interviewing (MI) plus HealthCall (n = 39); NIAAA Clinician's Guide (CG) plus HealthCall (n = 38); or CG-only (n = 37). Baseline MI and CG interventions took ~25 min, with brief (10-15 min) 30- and 60-day booster sessions. HealthCall involved daily use of the smartphone app (3-5 min/day) to report drinking and health in the prior 24 h. Outcomes assessed at 30 and 60 days and at 3, 6 and 12 months included drinks per drinking day (DpDD; primary outcome) and number of drinking days, analyzed with generalized linear mixed models and pre-planned contrasts. RESULTS Study retention was excellent (85%-94% across timepoints). At 30 days, DpDD among patients in MI + HealthCall, CG + HealthCall, and CG-only was 3.80, 5.28, and 5.67, respectively; patients in MI + HealthCall drank less than CG-only and CG + HealthCall (IRRs = 0.62, 95% CI = 0.46, 0.84, and 0.64, 95% CI = 0.48, 0.87, respectively). At 6 months (end-of-treatment), DpDD was lower in CG + HealthCall (DpDD = 4.88) than MI + HealthCall (DpDD = 5.88) or CG-only (DpDD = 6.91), although these differences were not significant. At 12 months, DpDD was 5.73, 5.31, and 6.79 in MI + HealthCall, CG + HealthCall, and CG-only, respectively; DpDD was significantly lower in CG + HealthCall than CG-only (IRR = 0.71, 95% CI = 0.51, 0.98). CONCLUSIONS During treatment, patients in MI + HealthCall had lower DpDD than patients in other conditions; however, at 12 months, drinking was lowest among patients in CG + HealthCall. Given the importance of drinking reduction and the low costs/time required for HealthCall, pairing HealthCall with brief interventions merits widespread consideration.
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- Deborah S Hasin
- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA; New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA; Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 W 168th St, New York, NY 10032, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA; New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA.
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- Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 3444 Kossuth Ave, The Bronx, NY 10467, USA.
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- New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA.
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- New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA; New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA.
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- New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA.
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- New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA.
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- Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 3444 Kossuth Ave, The Bronx, NY 10467, USA.
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- Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 3444 Kossuth Ave, The Bronx, NY 10467, USA.
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- Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 3444 Kossuth Ave, The Bronx, NY 10467, USA.
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Dark Side or Bright Side: The Impact of Alcohol Drinking on the Trust of Chinese Rural Residents. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 19:ijerph19105924. [PMID: 35627461 PMCID: PMC9141662 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19105924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2022] [Revised: 04/06/2022] [Accepted: 04/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Existing studies have explored the causal effect of social capital on harmful drinking, while the effect of drinking habits on trust is scant. In China, drinking rituals and drinking culture are considered important ways of promoting social interaction and trust, especially in rural areas where traditional culture is stronger. Based on a field survey in rural China in 2019, this paper explores the relationship between drinking habits and trust. First, we found a negative relationship between drinking habits and trust, indicating that those people who drink alcohol are more likely to have a lower trust. Second, we found significant heterogeneity in the effect of alcohol consumption on social trust across various groups. Specifically, the negative effects of alcohol consumption on trust were stronger for the females than for males; drinking alcohol did not reduce the level of trust among the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in rural China; compared with the Han nationality, we found that the effect of drinking on trust was not significant for the ethnic minority. Third, we observed that the negative effects of alcohol consumption on trust had thresholds across age and income. Among people under 51, the risk of trust from drinking was greater than for those over 51; the negative effect of drinking on residents’ trust was more obvious in low-income families, but not significant in the group with an annual household income of more than CNY 40,000. Our empirical study provides a deeper understanding of drinking culture in rural China from a dialectical perspective.
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Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a highly prevalent but severely under-treated disorder, with only three widely-approved pharmacotherapies. Given that AUD is a very heterogeneous disorder, it is unlikely that one single medication will be effective for all individuals with an AUD. As such, there is a need to develop new, more effective, and diverse pharmacological treatment options for AUD with the hopes of increasing utilization and improving care. In this qualitative literature review, we discuss the efficacy, mechanism of action, and tolerability of approved, repurposed, and novel pharmacotherapies for the treatment of AUD with a clinical perspective. Pharmacotherapies discussed include: disulfiram, acamprosate, naltrexone, nalmefene, topiramate, gabapentin, varenicline, baclofen, sodium oxybate, aripiprazole, ondansetron, mifepristone, ibudilast, suvorexant, prazosin, doxazosin, N-acetylcysteine, GET73, ASP8062, ABT-436, PF-5190457, and cannabidiol. Overall, many repurposed and novel agents discussed in this review demonstrate clinical effectiveness and promise for the future of AUD treatment. Importantly, these medications also offer potential improvements towards the advancement of precision medicine and personalized treatment for the heterogeneous AUD population. However, there remains a great need to improve access to treatment, increase the menu of approved pharmacological treatments, and de-stigmatize and increase treatment-seeking for AUD.
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Blalock DV, Berlin SA, Young JR, Blakey SM, Calhoun PS, Dedert EA. Effects of Alcohol Reduction Interventions on Blood Pressure. Curr Hypertens Rep 2022; 24:75-85. [PMID: 35107788 DOI: 10.1007/s11906-022-01171-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW Much of alcohol's purported negative impact on a population's health can be attributed to its association with increased blood pressure, rates of hypertension, and incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Less attention, however, has been placed on the association of the positive impact of alcohol reduction interventions on physical health. RECENT FINDINGS This review delineates the evidence of blood pressure reductions as a function of alcohol reduction interventions based on current care models. The findings of this review suggest two things: (1) sufficient evidence exists for a relationship between alcohol reductions and blood pressure generally, and (2) little evidence exists for the relationship between alcohol reductions and blood pressure for any one care model currently employed in the health system. The evidence base would benefit from more studies using established alcohol reduction interventions examining the impact of these interventions on blood pressure.
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- Dan V Blalock
- Durham Center of Innovation To Accelerate Discovery and Practice Transformation (ADAPT), Durham Veterans Affairs Health Care System, 411 West Chapel Hill St, Suite 600, Durham, NC, 27701, USA. .,Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.,VA Mid-Atlantic Region Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center, Durham, NC, USA.,Durham Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Durham, NC, USA
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- VA Mid-Atlantic Region Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center, Durham, NC, USA.,Durham Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Durham, NC, USA
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- Durham Center of Innovation To Accelerate Discovery and Practice Transformation (ADAPT), Durham Veterans Affairs Health Care System, 411 West Chapel Hill St, Suite 600, Durham, NC, 27701, USA.,Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.,VA Mid-Atlantic Region Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center, Durham, NC, USA.,Durham Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.,VA Mid-Atlantic Region Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center, Durham, NC, USA.,Durham Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Durham, NC, USA
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Madathanapalli A, Tang Q, Lammert C, Samala N, Shah VH, Sanyal A, Chalasani N, Desai A. Health-related quality of life is dynamic in alcoholic hepatitis and responds to improvement in liver disease and reduced alcohol consumption. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 2022; 46:252-261. [PMID: 34862610 PMCID: PMC8858853 DOI: 10.1111/acer.14756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2021] [Revised: 11/17/2021] [Accepted: 11/23/2021] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND The impact of alcoholic hepatitis (AH) on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) remains inadequately described. We aimed to characterize HRQOL in AH and heavy drinkers (HD), and its associations with clinical variables and outcomes. METHODS This is a post hoc analysis of participants in the Translational Research and Evolving Alcoholic Hepatitis Treatment 001 study (NCT02172898). HRQOL was measured using Short Form Health Survey (SF-36). Mean SF-36 scores were compared in AH and HD with two-sample t-tests. Associations among clinical characteristics, 30-day mortality, and SF-36 mental and physical component scores (MC, PC) were investigated with generalized linear and logistic multivariate regression models. Trends of MC and PC scores were analyzed using one-way ANOVA. RESULTS Participants with AH (n = 258) and HD (n = 181) were similar demographically. AH cases had a mean Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD) score of 23 (7). AH cases had lower PC scores [37 (10) vs. 48 (11), p < 0.001] but higher MC scores [37 (13) vs. 32 (13), p < 0.001]. MC scores were independently associated with age, male gender, and daily alcohol consumption; PC scores were independently associated with age, BMI, alanine aminotransferase concentration, alkaline phosphatase concentration, white blood cell counts, and the presence of ascites. With each 5-point decrease in the baseline PC score, the adjusted odds of dying within 30 days increased by 26.7% (95% CI 1% to 46%). Over time, HRQOL in AH improved (day 0 to day 180 delta PC score: 4.5 ± 1.7, p = 0.008; delta MC score: 9.8 ± 2.0, p < 0.001). Participants with a MELD score <15 by day 180 had greater increases in PC scores than those with MELD score ≥15 (delta PC score 7.1 ± 1.8 vs. -0.7 ± 2.3, p = 0.009), while those abstinent by day 180 had greater increases in MC scores than those who were not abstinent (delta MC score 9.1 ± 1.8 vs. 2.8 ± 2.4, p = 0.044). CONCLUSIONS HRQOL is poor in AH and HD in a domain-specific pattern. Independent of MELD score, lower baseline HRQOL is associated with higher 30-day mortality. Over time, HRQOL improves with greater gains seen in individuals with improved MELD scores and those who were abstinent.
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- Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis IN, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis IN, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, VCU School of Medicine, Richmond VA, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis IN, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis IN, USA
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Palzes VA, Kline-Simon AH, Satre DD, Sterling S, Weisner C, Chi FW. Predictors of early and sustained cessation of heavy drinking over 5 years among adult primary care patients. Addiction 2022; 117:82-95. [PMID: 34159681 PMCID: PMC8664973 DOI: 10.1111/add.15612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2021] [Revised: 03/11/2021] [Accepted: 06/09/2021] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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AIMS To identify factors asociated with early and sustained cessation of heavy drinking. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study over 5 years. SETTING Kaiser Permanente Northern California, United States. PARTICIPANTS Adults reporting heavy drinking during primary care-based alcohol screening between 1 June 2013 and 31 May 2014. The sample (n = 85 434) was 40.7% female and 33.8% non-white; mean age was 50.3 years (standard deviation = 18.1). MEASUREMENTS Following US guidelines, early and sustained cessation of heavy drinking was defined as reporting lower-risk drinking or abstinence at 1 year and to 5 years after achieving early cessation, respectively. Associations between patient characteristics and service use and cessation outcomes were examined using logistic regression with inverse probability weights addressing attrition. FINDINGS Nearly two-thirds of participants achieved early cessation of heavy drinking. Women [odds ratio (OR) = 1.39, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.35, 1.44], middle-age (35-64 years: ORs = 1.16-1.19), non-white race/ethnicity (ORs = 1.03-1.57), medical conditions (OR = 1.05, 95% CI = 1.04, 1.06), psychiatric (OR = 1.10, 95% CI = 1.06, 1.15) and drug use disorders (OR = 1.35, 95% CI = 1.17, 1.56) and addiction treatment (OR = 1.19, 95% CI = 1.09, 1.30) were associated with higher odds of early cessation, while older age (≥ 65 years: OR = 0.91, 95% CI = 0.86, 0.96), smoking (OR = 0.81, 95% CI = 0.77, 0.84), higher index drinking levels (exceeding both daily and weekly limits: OR = 0.30, 95% CI = 0.29, 0.32) and psychiatric treatment (OR = 0.91, 95% CI = 0.84, 0.99) were associated with lower odds. Among those who achieved early cessation (n = 19 200), 60.0% sustained cessation. Associations between patient factors and sustained cessation paralleled those observed in analyses of early cessation. Additionally, routine primary care (OR = 1.57, 95% CI = 1.44, 1.71) and addiction treatment post-1 year (OR = 1.41, 95% CI = 1.19, 1.66) were associated with higher odds of sustained cessation. Lower-risk drinking versus abstinence at 1 year was associated with lower odds of sustained cessation (OR = 0.62, 95% CI = 0.57, 0.66). CONCLUSIONS Nearly two-thirds of a large, diverse sample of patients who reported heavy drinking in a Californian health-care system achieved early and sustained cessation of heavy drinking. Vulnerable subgroups (i.e. non-white patients and those with psychiatric disorders), patients who received routine primary care and those who received addiction treatment were more likely to sustain cessation of heavy drinking than other participants.
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- Vanessa A Palzes
- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA
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Cohen SM, Alexander RS, Holt SR. The Spectrum of Alcohol Use: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment. Med Clin North Am 2022; 106:43-60. [PMID: 34823734 DOI: 10.1016/j.mcna.2021.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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In the United States, alcohol is the most common substance used and the spectrum of unhealthy alcohol use is highly prevalent. Complications of unhealthy alcohol use affect nearly every organ system. One of the most frequent and potentially life-threatening of these complications is alcohol withdrawal syndrome for which benzodiazepines remain first-line therapy. Pharmacologic treatment of alcohol use disorder, the most severe form of unhealthy alcohol use, is underutilized despite the availability of multiple effective medications. Although behavioral therapies are an important component of treatment, they are overemphasized at the expense of pharmacotherapy.
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- Shawn M Cohen
- Program in Addiction Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, 367 Cedar Street, Harkness Hal A, Suite 417A, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
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- Program in Addiction Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, 367 Cedar Street, Harkness Hal A, Suite 417A, New Haven, CT 06510, USA; Department of Preventive Medicine, Griffin Hospital, Derby, CT 06418, USA; Department of Internal Medicine, Griffin Hospital, Derby, CT 06418, USA
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- Program in Addiction Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, 367 Cedar Street, Harkness Hal A, Suite 417A, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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Aharonovich E, Scodes J, Wall MM, Hasin DS. The relationship of frequency of cocaine use to substance and psychiatric disorders in the U.S. general population. Drug Alcohol Depend 2021; 227:108933. [PMID: 34358768 PMCID: PMC8464522 DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108933] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2021] [Revised: 06/21/2021] [Accepted: 06/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND In clinical trials of pharmacotherapy for substance use, abstinence is the primary endpoint accepted by regulatory agencies. However, this endpoint could be overly restrictive, impeding efforts to identify effective medications for cocaine use disorder. To examine non-abstinent gradations in cocaine use as potential indicators of improvement, we investigated the relationship of frequency of cocaine use to clinical correlates in national survey data. METHODS Lifetime cocaine users (n = 2501) were interviewed in the National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC) in 2001-2002 and re-interviewed in 2004-2005. Adjusted odds ratios (aORs) indicated associations between heaviest frequency of cocaine use and use of other substances, DSM-IV substance use disorders, psychiatric disorders, and change between 2001-2002 and 2004-2005. The reference category for all aORs was non-users. RESULTS Greater lifetime cocaine use frequency was associated with lifetime cocaine, alcohol, and cannabis dependence (aOR for a linear trend = 2.80, 1.22, 1.22, respectively) and past-year cocaine, alcohol, and cannabis dependence (aOR = 1.78, 1.13, 1.16, respectively). Greater lifetime cocaine use frequency was associated with past-year depressive, panic, and generalized anxiety disorders (aOR = 1.07, 1.09, 1.12, respectively). Among cocaine users in 2001-2002, compared to the reference group using less than monthly, use ≥1x/week and use 1-3 times a month was associated with cocaine use disorder in 2004-2005 (aOR = 2.13 and aOR = 1.67, respectively). CONCLUSION Gradations in risk for dependence on cocaine, other substances and psychiatric disorders by frequency of cocaine use indicates a promising direction for more sensitive outcome measures of treatment effects on cocaine outcomes than binary indicators (e.g., any use vs. none). Study results add to findings suggesting that non-abstinent measures might be useful indicators of treatment efficacy in clinical trials.
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- Efrat Aharonovich
- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA; Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA; Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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Park SJ, Lee SJ, Kim H, Kim JK, Chun JW, Lee SJ, Lee HK, Kim DJ, Choi IY. Machine learning prediction of dropping out of outpatients with alcohol use disorders. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0255626. [PMID: 34339461 PMCID: PMC8328309 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0255626] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2021] [Accepted: 07/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a chronic disease with a higher recurrence rate than that of other mental illnesses. Moreover, it requires continuous outpatient treatment for the patient to maintain abstinence. However, with a low probability of these patients to continue outpatient treatment, predicting and managing patients who might discontinue treatment becomes necessary. Accordingly, we developed a machine learning (ML) algorithm to predict which the risk of patients dropping out of outpatient treatment schemes. METHODS A total of 839 patients were selected out of 2,206 patients admitted for AUD in three hospitals under the Catholic Central Medical Center in Korea. We implemented six ML models-logistic regression, support vector machine, k-nearest neighbor, random forest, neural network, and AdaBoost-and compared the prediction performances thereof. RESULTS Among the six models, AdaBoost was selected as the final model for recommended use owing to its area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) of 0.72. The four variables affecting the prediction based on feature importance were the length of hospitalization, age, residential area, and diabetes. CONCLUSION An ML algorithm was developed herein to predict the risk of patients with AUD in Korea discontinuing outpatient treatment. By testing and validating various machine learning models, we determined the best performing model, AdaBoost, as the final model for recommended use. Using this model, clinicians can manage patients with high risks of discontinuing treatment and establish patient-specific treatment strategies. Therefore, our model can potentially enable patients with AUD to successfully complete their treatments by identifying them before they can drop out.
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- So Jin Park
- Department of Medical Informatics, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea
- Department of Biomedicine & Health Sciences, College of Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Medical Informatics, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea
- Department of Biomedicine & Health Sciences, College of Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Medical Informatics, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea
- Department of Biomedicine & Health Sciences, College of Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Medical Informatics, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea
- Department of Biomedicine & Health Sciences, College of Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Medical Informatics, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea
- Department of Biomedicine & Health Sciences, College of Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Psychiatry, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Medical Informatics, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea
- Department of Biomedicine & Health Sciences, College of Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea
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Henssler J, Müller M, Carreira H, Bschor T, Heinz A, Baethge C. Controlled drinking-non-abstinent versus abstinent treatment goals in alcohol use disorder: a systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression. Addiction 2021; 116:1973-1987. [PMID: 33188563 DOI: 10.1111/add.15329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2020] [Revised: 07/20/2020] [Accepted: 11/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS The proportion of untreated patients with alcohol use disorder (AUD) exceeds that of any other mental health disorder, and treatment alternatives are needed. A widely discussed strategy is to depart from the abstinence paradigm as part of controlled drinking approaches. This first systematic review with meta-analysis aims to assess the efficacy of non-abstinent treatment strategies compared with abstinence-based strategies. METHODS CENTRAL, PubMed, PsycINFO and Embase databases were searched until February 2019 for controlled (randomized and non-randomized) clinical trials (RCTs and non-RCTs) among adult AUD populations, including an intervention group aiming at controlled drinking and a control group aiming for abstinence. Following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) and Cochrane Collaboration guidelines, literature search, data collection and risk of bias assessment were carried out independently by two reviewers [International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (PROSPERO), registration no. CRD42019128716]. The primary outcome was the proportion of participants consuming alcohol at or below the recommended threshold. Secondary outcomes were social functioning, drinking reductions, abstinence rates and dropouts. Using random-effects models, RCTs and non-RCTs were analyzed separately. Sensitivity and subgroup analyses accounted for methodological rigor, inclusion of goal-specific treatment, length of follow-up and AUD severity. RESULTS Twenty-two studies (including five RCTs) with 4204 patients were selected. There was no statistically significant difference between both treatment paradigms in RCTs [odds ratio (OR) = 1.32, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.51-3.39]. Non-randomized studies of free goal choice favored abstinence-orientation (OR = 0.60, 95% CI = 0.40-0.90), unless goal-specific treatment was provided (OR = 0.79, 95% CI = 0.40-1.56), or in studies of low risk of bias (OR = 0.73, 95% CI = 0.49-1.09) or with long follow-up (OR = 1.49, 95% CI = 0.78-2.85). Effect sizes were not clearly dependent upon AUD severity. Abstinence- and controlled drinking interventions did not clearly differ in their effect on social functioning and drinking reductions. CONCLUSIONS Available evidence does not support abstinence as the only approach in the treatment of alcohol use disorder. Controlled drinking, particularly if supported by specific psychotherapy, appears to be a viable option where an abstinence-oriented approach is not applicable.
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- Jonathan Henssler
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Cologne Medical School, Cologne, Germany.,Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Campus Mitte, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität Zu Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.,Institute of Health Economics and Clinical Epidemiology, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Campus Mitte, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität Zu Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Cologne Medical School, Cologne, Germany
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Witkiewitz K, Morris J, Tucker JA. Commentary on Henssler et al.: The public health case for promoting and valuing drinking reductions in the treatment of alcohol use disorder. Addiction 2021; 116:1988-1989. [PMID: 33554367 DOI: 10.1111/add.15429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2020] [Accepted: 01/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Katie Witkiewitz
- Department of Psychology and Center on Alcohol, Substance Use and Addictions, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
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- Centre for Addictive Behaviours Research, School of Applied Sciences, London South Bank University, London, UK
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- Department of Health Education and Behavior and Center for Behavioral Economic Health Research, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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Hartwell EE, Feinn R, Witkiewitz K, Pond T, Kranzler HR. World Health Organization risk drinking levels as a treatment outcome measure in topiramate trials. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 2021; 45:1664-1671. [PMID: 34120366 PMCID: PMC9439581 DOI: 10.1111/acer.14652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2021] [Revised: 05/07/2021] [Accepted: 05/29/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND Although abstinence has traditionally been considered the only suitable outcome for alcohol treatment, reduced drinking is also associated with improved functioning and medical and psychiatric outcomes. The World Health Organization (WHO) risk drinking levels (RDLs) have been shown to be valid outcome measures in treatment trials for alcohol use disorder (AUD). METHODS We conducted a secondary analysis of two 12-week, randomized controlled trials (RCTs), in which a total of 308 individuals with problematic alcohol use received topiramate or placebo treatment. We compared the utility of the WHO RDLs with other treatment outcomes, including self-reported measures of alcohol consumption, alcohol-related problems, and quality of life, and the biomarker gamma-glutamyltransferase. RESULTS Topiramate treatment was associated with small effect sizes for both a 1-level (d = 0.26) and a 2-level (d = 0.19) reduction in WHO RDL, effects that were not significant after correction for multiple comparisons. No heavy drinking days, one of the outcome measures recommended by the US Food and Drug Administration for alcohol medication registration trials, also exhibited a small effect (0.21), while an effect size for abstinence could not be calculated. There were medium effects of topiramate on continuous measures of percent heavy drinking days (d = 0.49) and alcohol-related problems (d = 0.41). CONCLUSIONS Topiramate is an efficacious pharmacotherapy for AUD. Although continuous measures of drinking and alcohol-related problems yielded larger effect sizes than the WHO RDLs, the latter nonetheless provide a categorical alternative for use in both clinical care and pharmacotherapy trials.
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- Emily E. Hartwell
- Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center, Crescenz VAMC
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Frank H. Netter School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University, North Haven, CT 06473
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- Department of Psychology (KW), Center on Alcohol, Substance use, and Addictions, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131
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- Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center, Crescenz VAMC
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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- Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center, Crescenz VAMC
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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Kranzler HR, Hartwell EE, Feinn R, Pond T, Witkiewitz K, Gelernter J, Crist RC. Combined analysis of the moderating effect of a GRIK1 polymorphism on the effects of topiramate for treating alcohol use disorder. Drug Alcohol Depend 2021; 225:108762. [PMID: 34049101 PMCID: PMC8282735 DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108762] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2021] [Revised: 02/26/2021] [Accepted: 03/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND In an initial study, we reported that topiramate reduced heavy drinking among individuals who sought to reduce their drinking and that the effect was moderated by a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP; rs2832407) in GRIK1, which encodes the kainate GluK1 receptor subunit (Kranzler et al., 2014). In a subsequent study that prospectively randomized patients to medication group based on their rs2832407 genotype, we replicated the main effect of topiramate but not the moderating effect of the SNP (Kranzler et al., 2021). Given the similar design of the two studies, here we combined the findings to provide greater statistical power to test the pharmacogenetic effect. MATERIAL AND METHODS This secondary analysis of two 12-week, randomized controlled trials of topiramate included a total of 292 European-ancestry individuals (67.1 % male; topiramate: 48.3 %, placebo: 51.7 %) with problematic alcohol use. Using MANOVA, we examined changes in self-reported alcohol consumption, problems resulting from alcohol use, and quality of life, and the biomarker γ-glutamyltransferase. To test the pharmacogenetic hypothesis, all patients were genotyped for rs2832407. RESULTS There was a significant overall effect of topiramate on the alcohol-related outcomes (partial η2 = 0.134, p < 0.001), with follow-up analyses showing significant reductions in percent heavy drinking days (Cohen's d = 0.49), percent days abstinent (d = 0.23), drinks/day (d = 0.29) and alcohol-related problems (d = 0.45). Overall, the moderating effect of the SNP was non-significant (partial η² = 0.026, p = 0.37). CONCLUSIONS Although topiramate is an efficacious medication for reducing drinking and alcohol-related problems among patients with problematic alcohol use, rs2832407 does not appear to moderate its therapeutic effects. www.clinicaltrials.gov registrations: NCT00626925 and NCT02371889.
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- Henry R Kranzler
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States; Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center, Crescenz VAMC, United States.
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States; Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center, Crescenz VAMC, United States
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Frank H. Netter School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University, North Haven, CT, 06473, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States; Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center, Crescenz VAMC, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addictions, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine and VA CT Healthcare Center, West Haven, CT, 06516, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
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Sullivan EV, Zahr NM, Sassoon SA, Pfefferbaum A. Disturbed sensory physiology underlies poor balance and disrupts activities of daily living in alcohol use disorder. Addict Biol 2021; 26:e12966. [PMID: 33098738 DOI: 10.1111/adb.12966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2020] [Revised: 08/24/2020] [Accepted: 08/25/2020] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Postural stability is a multi-factorial skill maintained implicitly. Components of quiet standing can decline with Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD), cause instability, and disrupt activities of daily living (ADL). To examine how stability factors contribute to ADL and balance, 638 force platform testing sessions measured sway paths acquired during quiet standing in 151 AUD and 96 control men and women, age 25-75. Structural equation (seq) path analysis estimated contributions from age, diagnosis, and sensory perception to sway and measures of ADL and roadside ataxia testing. Whether eyes were open or closed, older AUD and control participants had longer sway paths than younger ones; older men had longer sway paths than older women. Although each sensory ability tested declined with aging, different factor constellations influenced ADL, ataxia scores, or sway path. Seq-path analysis indicated that ADL was strongly dependent on sensory (but not cognitive) systems with sway-path length accounting for upwards of 25% of variance. Within the AUD group, an index of historically-experienced withdrawal symptoms was a common predictor of stability regardless of vision condition. The greatest variance measured by the seq-path model was for predicting platform sway and simple ataxia testing of one-leg standing even though these measures were affected by different predictor variables: strong predictors of one-leg standing were diagnosis and age (R2 = 39.6%-43.2%), whereas strong predictors of sway-path length were sensory factors and withdrawal index (R2 = 22.0%-22.9%). These findings present evidence for appreciating selective factors that contribute to declining postural stability and to liability for compromised quality of life in AUD.
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- Edith V. Sullivan
- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford CA USA
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- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford CA USA
- Center for Health Sciences SRI International Menlo Park CA USA
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- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford CA USA
- Center for Health Sciences SRI International Menlo Park CA USA
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Witkiewitz K, Wilson AD, Pearson MR, Roos CR, Swan JE, Votaw VR, Stein ER, Edwards KA, Tonigan JS, Hallgren KA, Montes KS, Maisto SA, Tucker JA. A Bridge to Nowhere: Resistance to the Possibility of Some Heavy Drinking During Recovery and the Potential Public Health Implications. J Addict Med 2021; 15:352-353. [PMID: 33577228 PMCID: PMC8352995 DOI: 10.1097/adm.0000000000000796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The misuse of alcohol in the United States continues to take a large toll on society, resulting in the deaths of about 88,000 Americans per year. Moreover, it is estimated that nearly 14.6 million Americans currently meet diagnostic criteria for current alcohol use disorder (AUD). However, very few individuals receive treatment, with an even smaller portion receiving medications approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of AUD, despite scientifically rigorous evidence showing the benefits of combining medication approved for treating AUD with evidence-based behavioral therapy. These benefits include higher rates of abstinence and less risk of relapse to heavy drinking, with associated improvements in medical and mental health and in quality of life. This review provides an overview of FDA-approved medications and “off-label” drugs for the treatment of AUD. The article emphasizes that AUD medical advice and prescription recommendations should come from professionals with training in the treatment of AUD and that treatment plans should consider medication in conjunction with evidence-based behavioral therapy. Finally, this review notes the limited number of medications available and the continued need for the development of new pharmacotherapies to optimize AUD recovery goals.
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- Barbara J Mason
- Pearson Center for Alcoholism and Addiction Research, Department of Molecular Medicine, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California. Center for Human Development, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
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- Pearson Center for Alcoholism and Addiction Research, Department of Molecular Medicine, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California. Center for Human Development, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
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Shmulewitz D, Aharonovich E, Witkiewitz K, Anton RF, Kranzler HR, Scodes J, Mann KF, Wall MM, Hasin D. The World Health Organization Risk Drinking Levels Measure of Alcohol Consumption: Prevalence and Health Correlates in Nationally Representative Surveys of U.S. Adults, 2001-2002 and 2012-2013. Am J Psychiatry 2021; 178:548-559. [PMID: 33472388 PMCID: PMC8222066 DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.20050610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Little is known about change over time in the prevalence of World Health Organization (WHO) risk drinking levels (very high, high, moderate, low) and their association with health conditions, overall and by gender. The authors used two sets of nationally representative U.S. survey data to determine whether changes over time varied by gender and to examine whether health conditions related to alcohol were associated with WHO risk drinking level within each survey, and whether these associations differed by gender. METHODS Data on current drinkers from the 2001-2002 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC; N=26,655) and the 2012-2013 NESARC-III (N=25,659) were analyzed using logistic regression. Prevalence differences between surveys were estimated for each drinking level overall and by gender. Within each survey, prevalence differences by WHO risk drinking level were estimated for alcohol use disorder (AUD), drug use disorders, functional impairment, liver disease, and depressive and anxiety disorders. RESULTS In the 2012-2013 survey, the prevalences of moderate, high, and very high risk drinking were 5.9%, 3.2%, and 3.5%, respectively, representing significant increases from the prevalences in the 2001-2002 survey, which were 1.0%, 0.6%, and 0.9%, respectively. The increase for very high risk drinking among men (0.5%) was smaller than the increase among women (1.4%). Within both surveys, compared with low risk, health conditions were significantly associated with very high risk (range of prevalence differences, 2.2%-57.8%), high risk (2.6%-41.3%), and moderate risk (0.6%-29.8%) drinking. Associations were similar by gender, except that there were stronger effects for AUD in men and for functional impairment and depressive and anxiety disorders in women. CONCLUSIONS The increase in potentially problematic drinking levels among U.S. adults emphasizes the need for better prevention and treatment strategies. The study results support the validity of the WHO risk drinking levels, which show clinical utility as nonabstinent drinking reduction treatment goals. Such goals could engage more people in treatment, improving public health by decreasing personal and societal consequences of risk drinking.
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- Dvora Shmulewitz
- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA,New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA,New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA,Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA,New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA,Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA,New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA,Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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Barbosa C, Bray JW, Dowd WN, Barnosky A, Wittenberg E. SF-6D utility scores for alcohol use disorder status and alcohol consumption risk levels in the US population. Addiction 2021; 116:1034-1042. [PMID: 33448504 PMCID: PMC7882636 DOI: 10.1111/add.15224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2020] [Revised: 06/26/2020] [Accepted: 08/07/2020] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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AIMS To estimate US population health utilities for subgroups defined by alcohol use disorder (AUD) status and consumption level. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING Community settings in the United States (i.e. excluding institutional settings). PARTICIPANTS A total of 36,042 adults (age 18+) in non-institutional settings in the United States. MEASUREMENTS We used 12-item Short Form Survey (SF-12) data from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions-III to calculate mean Short Form-6 dimension (SF-6D) utility scores across World Health Organization alcohol consumption risk levels-very high risk, high risk, medium risk, low risk and an additional abstinent level-for three groups: (1) the general population (n = 36,042), (2) individuals with life-time AUD (n = 9925) and (3) individuals with current AUD (n = 5083), and assessed minimally important differences (MIDs) between consumption levels. Each group is a subset of the previous group. FINDINGS The general population's mean SF-6D utility was higher than that of individuals with life-time or current AUD across all consumption risk levels (0.79 versus 0.76 for both AUD groups). For all groups, SF-6D utilities increased as consumption risk level decreased to non-abstinent levels, and reducing consumption from very high risk to any lower level was associated with a statistically significant and meaningful improvement in utility. For individuals with life-time or current AUD, becoming abstinent from high-, medium- and low-risk levels was associated with significantly and meaningfully worse utilities. CONCLUSIONS Higher alcohol consumption risk levels appear to be associated with lower health index scores for the general population and individuals with a history of alcohol use disorder, meaning that higher alcohol consumption is associated with worse health-related quality of life.
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- Bryan School of Business and Economics, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, USA
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- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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Machine learning prediction of blood alcohol concentration: a digital signature of smart-breathalyzer behavior. NPJ Digit Med 2021; 4:74. [PMID: 33879844 PMCID: PMC8058037 DOI: 10.1038/s41746-021-00441-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2020] [Accepted: 03/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Excess alcohol use is an important determinant of death and disability. Machine learning (ML)-driven interventions leveraging smart-breathalyzer data may help reduce these harms. We developed a digital phenotype of long-term smart-breathalyzer behavior to predict individuals' breath alcohol concentration (BrAC) levels trained on data from a smart breathalyzer. We analyzed roughly one million datapoints from 33,452 users of a commercial smart-breathalyzer device, collected between 2013 and 2017. For validation, we analyzed the associations between state-level observed smart-breathalyzer BrAC levels and impaired-driving motor vehicle death rates. Behavioral, geolocation-based, and time-series-derived features were fed to an ML algorithm using training (70% of the cohort), development (10% of the cohort), and test (20% of the cohort) sets to predict the likelihood of a BrAC exceeding the legal driving limit (0.08 g/dL). States with higher average BrAC levels had significantly higher alcohol-related driving death rates, adjusted for the number of users per state B (SE) = 91.38 (15.16), p < 0.01. In the independent test set, the ML algorithm predicted the likelihood of a given user-initiated BrAC sample exceeding BrAC ≥ 0.08 g/dL, with an area under the curve (AUC) of 85%. Highly predictive features included users' prior BrAC trends, subjective estimation of their BrAC (or AUC = 82% without the self-estimate), engagement and self-monitoring, time since the last measure, and hour of the day. In conclusion, an ML algorithm successfully quantified a digital phenotype of behavior, predicting naturalistic BrAC levels exceeding 0.08 g/dL (a threshold associated with alcohol-related harm) with good discrimination capability. This result establishes a foundation for future research on precision behavioral medicine digital health interventions using smart breathalyzers and passive monitoring approaches.
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Wittenberg E, Barbosa C, Hein R, Hudson E, Thornburg B, Bray JW. Health-related quality of life of alcohol use disorder with co-occurring conditions in the US population. Drug Alcohol Depend 2021; 221:108558. [PMID: 33556660 PMCID: PMC8026697 DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2020] [Revised: 12/27/2020] [Accepted: 12/29/2020] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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BACKGROUND Alcohol use disorder (AUD) commonly co-occurs with other health conditions or other substance use, complicating our understanding of the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of AUD. We described the HRQoL of alcohol use disorder in the presence of co-occurring conditions and identified the contribution of each. METHODS Secondary analysis of National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions III data, consisting of 36,309 non-institutionalized US adults; descriptive and regression analysis. HRQoL measured via the SF-6D; AUD via the Alcohol Use Disorder and Associated Disabilities Interview Schedule (AUDADIS-5); physical, mental health, and substance use disorders/conditions as reported or assessed via AUDADIS-5. RESULTS AUD was independently associated with lower HRQoL for individuals experiencing co-occurring conditions. Compared to no AUD, past year AUD reduced SF-6D score by 0.0304 (SE = 0.0027) and prior-to-past-year AUD reduced SF-6D by 0.0163 (SE = 0.0023). AUD's co-occurring conditions were independently associated with lower HRQoL, beyond the reduction from AUD: any co-occurring physical health condition was associated with a 0.062 point reduction in SF-6D score (SE = 0.0023), any mental health condition with a 0.084 point reduction (SE = 0.0025), and any substance use disorder with a 0.038 point reduction (SE = 0.0023). CONCLUSIONS AUD's association with diminished HRQoL may be explained in large part by the presence of co-occurring conditions among individuals reporting AUD, as these co-occurring conditions are associated with substantial decrements in HRQoL-often eclipsing the magnitude of the decrements associated with AUD alone. Alcohol use interventions endeavoring to improve HRQoL should consider the entirety of an individual to design patient-centered care.
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Affiliation(s)
- Eve Wittenberg
- Center for Health Decision Science, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, 718 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
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- RTI International, 230 West Monroe Street, Suite 2100, Chicago, IL, 60606, USA.
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- Bryan School of Business and Economics, University of North Carolina Greensboro, 462 Bryan Building, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402, USA.
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- Bryan School of Business and Economics, University of North Carolina Greensboro, 462 Bryan Building, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402, USA.
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- Bryan School of Business and Economics, University of North Carolina Greensboro, 462 Bryan Building, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402, USA.
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- Bryan School of Business and Economics, University of North Carolina Greensboro, 462 Bryan Building, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402, USA.
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Kurkin DV, Morkovin EI, Osadchenko NA, Bakulin DA, Dubrovina MA, Gorbunova YV, Abrosimova EE, Pustynnikov VE, Tyurenkov IN, Petrov VI. N-acetylcysteine relieves neurologic signs of acute ethanol hangover in rats. RESEARCH RESULTS IN PHARMACOLOGY 2021. [DOI: 10.3897/rrpharmacology.7.62622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Introduction: Alcohol abuse is one of the grave social and medical problems in many countries, including Russia. Alcohol not only negatively affects health, social and family relationships, but also a person’s performance. Hangover, which is a one of the negative consequences of alcohol intake, is a complex of neurological and somatic symptoms that occur when ethanol is almost completely metabolized to acetaldehyde. This condition, despite the severity and potential economic damage, remains poorly understood, and there are no effective medicines to treat it.
Aim: to provide an experimental basis for the possibility of using N-acetylcysteine (NAC), a precursor of glutathione, as a medicine for prevention of the neurological and cognitive impairments due to alcohol intoxication.
Materials and Methods: The study used male Wistar rats, which were intraperitoneally injected with ethanol at a dose of 3 g/kg to simulate acute ethanol intoxication. Sixty minutes before the injection, the animals from the experimental groups were gavaged with NAC (1 g/kg) or with an equivalent volume of saline. Immediately after awakening and 3 h after it, the animals were assessed for neurological deficits, motor skills, spontaneous motor activity, and cognitive functions. After the completion of the behavioral tests, the animals were euthanized to assess the level of glutathione, triglycerides (TGs), and malonic dialdehyde (MDA) in liver homogenates, and to determine the activity of enzymatic antioxidant systems and serum aminotransferases.
Results and Discussion: The ethanol intoxication in the animals from the control group was associated with pronounced signs of neurological and cognitive impairments, including low spontaneous motor and exploratory activity, impaired fine motor skills in the adhesive test, and cognitive function decline in the Morris water maze test. The rats which had received NAC before ethanol injection demonstrated better fine motor skills in the adhesive test, a higher level of spontaneous motor activity and better performance in the Morris water maze test (in comparison to the animals treated with saline before alcohol intoxication). In the animals which had received NAC, the levels of glutathione, MDA, and TGs, as well as the activity of liver antioxidant enzymes, were closer to the values of the intact rats to a greater extent than in the animals that had been injected with ethanol and received saline.
Conclusion: Orally administered NAC before acute ethanol intoxication led to a decrease in the severity of neurological deficiency in rats and reduced the amnesic effect of ethanol. This could be due to an improvement of ethanol metabolism and a decrease in the severity of disorders associated with oxidative stress and liver dysfunction.
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