Wave-Ananda Baskerville, Erica N Grodin, Lara A Ray
{"title":"Influence of sleep quality on lapse to alcohol use during a quit attempt.","authors":"Wave-Ananda Baskerville, Erica N Grodin, Lara A Ray","doi":"10.1093/alcalc/agae009","DOIUrl":"10.1093/alcalc/agae009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>Sleep problems are common among individuals with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and is often associated with a heightened relapse risk. The present study examines the relationship between sleep and alcohol use among individuals with current AUD during a 6-day quit attempt as part of a medication study.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The current study is a secondary analysis of a medication trial for individuals with AUD. Individuals with AUD (N = 53, 26 females) were randomized to active medication or matched placebo. Randomized participants completed a week-long medication titration (Days 1-7). Following the titration period, participants attended an in-person visit (Day 8) to begin a 6-day quit attempt. During the quit attempt, participants completed daily diary assessments to report on previous day alcohol consumption, sleep quality, and alcohol craving. In the present study, medication condition was controlled for in all models.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Baseline global sleep quality was not a significant predictor of drinks per drinking day (P = 0.72) or percent days abstinent (P = 0.16) during the 6-day practice quit attempt. Daily diary analyses found that greater sleep quality was associated with higher next-day drinks per drinking day (b = 0.198, P = 0.029). In contrast, participants reported worse sleep quality following nights of greater alcohol intake, albeit at a trend-level (b = -0.12, P = 0.053).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These results suggest that better sleep quality was a risk factor for drinking during the 6-day quit period, such that better sleep may be associated with increased craving for alcohol and alcohol use the next day. These findings are limited to the early abstinence period and should be considered in studies exploring longer periods of abstinence.</p>","PeriodicalId":7407,"journal":{"name":"Alcohol and alcoholism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10873907/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139897816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Madeline R Stenersen, MacKenzie Peltier, Sherry A McKee
{"title":"The criminal justice system in alcohol use treatment: a nationwide analysis of racial disparities in treatment referral and completion.","authors":"Madeline R Stenersen, MacKenzie Peltier, Sherry A McKee","doi":"10.1093/alcalc/agad092","DOIUrl":"10.1093/alcalc/agad092","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Alcohol use and the criminal justice (CJ) system have long been integrally connected in the United States and have both disproportionally impacted Communities of Color. Despite this connection, scholarly literature has largely focused on substance use as a whole, and little literature has examined the influence of race on CJ referral to alcohol treatment and treatment outcomes.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A total of 749,349 cases from the treatment episodes dataset discharge were used in the current study. A series of ANOVA and logistic regression analyses were conducted to examine the impact of race on (i) likelihood of referral to alcohol treatment by the CJ system and (ii) the association between CJ referral and treatment completion.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Results revealed significant disparities in both who is referred to alcohol treatment by the CJ system and the association of that referral to treatment completion. Notably, American Indian/Alaska Native people were significantly more likely than people of all other races to be referred by the CJ system. However, American Indian/Alaska Native people showed the smallest association between CJ referral and treatment completion.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Contrary to previous literature, findings showed that referral of and positive association between CJ referral and treatment completion are not equal across people of different races. Taken together, these results highlight continued racial inequities in the role of the CJ system in alcohol treatment and the unique potential for non-CJ-related treatment to best serve people combatting alcohol use disorder.</p>","PeriodicalId":7407,"journal":{"name":"Alcohol and alcoholism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10807701/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139545350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Welcome to Giancarlo Colombo, new editor-in-chief of Alcohol and Alcoholism.","authors":"Lorenzo Leggio","doi":"10.1093/alcalc/agae003","DOIUrl":"10.1093/alcalc/agae003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7407,"journal":{"name":"Alcohol and alcoholism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139670962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Erin E Bonar, Chiu Y Tan, Anne C Fernandez, Jason E Goldstick, Lyndsay Chapman, Autumn R Florimbio, Maureen A Walton
{"title":"A social media intervention for high-intensity drinking among emerging adults: a pilot randomized controlled trial.","authors":"Erin E Bonar, Chiu Y Tan, Anne C Fernandez, Jason E Goldstick, Lyndsay Chapman, Autumn R Florimbio, Maureen A Walton","doi":"10.1093/alcalc/agae005","DOIUrl":"10.1093/alcalc/agae005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>High-intensity drinking (HID) is a pattern of risky drinking defined as at least 8 drinks (for women) or 10 drinks (for men) in a single episode. Individuals engaged in HID may be at greater risk for consequences, necessitating tailored interventions. Herein, we report the feasibility and acceptability of a social media-delivered 8-week intervention for emerging adults with recent HID.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Using social media advertising, we recruited 102 emerging adults who reported past-month HID. Average age was 20.0 year-olds (SD = 2.0); 51.0% were male. Most identified as White (64.7%; 14.7% Black/African American, 13.7% multiracial) and 26.5% identified as Hispanic/Latinx. Participants were randomized to an 8-week intervention delivered via Snapchat by health coaches (N = 50) or to a control condition (psychoeducational website referral; N = 52). Follow-ups occurred at 2 and 4 months post-baseline.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The intervention was acceptable (85.1% liked it/liked it a lot) and there were high follow-up rates. Participants rated coaches as supportive (91.5%) and respectful (93.6%). Descriptively, helpfulness ratings were higher for non-alcohol-related content (e.g. stress; 59.6% very/extremely helpful) than alcohol-related content (40.4% very/extremely helpful). Regarding engagement, 86.0% engaged approximately weekly and 59.6% indicated they saved intervention snaps. Descriptive data showed reductions over time in several measures of alcohol consumption and consequences as well as cannabis-impaired driving and mental health symptoms.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This 8-week social media intervention for HID was feasible and acceptable among emerging adults, supporting the benefit of future testing in a fully powered trial.</p>","PeriodicalId":7407,"journal":{"name":"Alcohol and alcoholism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10872155/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139745782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hostile attributional biases in severe alcohol use disorder: replication, gender specificity, and mechanistic insights.","authors":"Arthur Pabst, Mado Gautier, Pierre Maurage","doi":"10.1093/alcalc/agae010","DOIUrl":"10.1093/alcalc/agae010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>Despite their importance in the emergence and persistence of severe alcohol use disorder (SAUD), social cognition impairments remain understudied in this population. Hostile attributional biases (HAB), a key component of social cognition, may be involved in interpersonal problems and SAUD maintenance. However, current evidence for HAB in SAUD is highly preliminary, as it relies on a single study based on a small sample and on a task that cannot dissociate increased hostile from reduced benign attributions. We therefore used an improved methodology to further characterize this bias and disentangle underlying mechanisms. In addition, we explored potential gender differences.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>A total of 56 patients (28 women) diagnosed with SAUD and 66 (27 women) demographically matched controls completed the Word-Sentence Association Paradigm-Hostility, which provides a valid, spontaneous, and relatively implicit assessment of both hostile and benign social attributions related to ambiguous situations. They also completed self-report measures of psychopathology and interpersonal problems.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>At the group-level, patients with SAUD presented higher HAB than controls, without group differences for benign attributions. Gender analyses revealed that this effect selectively emerged in men with SAUD. Further, patients' benign attributions did not differ from their hostile attributions. Finally, HAB (not benign attributions) were associated with interpersonal problems and state anxiety in patients.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The association between SAUD and HAB at the group level is genuine and replicable across samples and tasks. This association may further selectively emerge in men. Our results also confirm the functional significance of HAB in SAUD, and point to potential mechanisms and clinical recommendations.</p>","PeriodicalId":7407,"journal":{"name":"Alcohol and alcoholism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140064612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abraham Albert Bonela, Zhen He, Dan-Anderson Luxford, Benjamin Riordan, Emmanuel Kuntsche
{"title":"Development of the lyrics-based deep learning algorithm for identifying alcohol-related words (LYDIA).","authors":"Abraham Albert Bonela, Zhen He, Dan-Anderson Luxford, Benjamin Riordan, Emmanuel Kuntsche","doi":"10.1093/alcalc/agad088","DOIUrl":"10.1093/alcalc/agad088","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Music is an integral part of our lives and is often played in public places like restaurants. People exposed to music that contained alcohol-related lyrics in a bar scenario consumed significantly more alcohol than those exposed to music with less alcohol-related lyrics. Existing methods to quantify alcohol exposure in song lyrics have used manual annotation that is burdensome and time intensive. In this paper, we aim to build a deep learning algorithm (LYDIA) that can automatically detect and identify alcohol exposure and its context in song lyrics.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We identified 673 potentially alcohol-related words including brand names, urban slang, and beverage names. We collected all the lyrics from the Billboard's top-100 songs from 1959 to 2020 (N = 6110). We developed an annotation tool to annotate both the alcohol-relation of the word (alcohol, non-alcohol, or unsure) and the context (positive, negative, or neutral) of the word in the song lyrics.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>LYDIA achieved an accuracy of 86.6% in identifying the alcohol-relation of the word, and 72.9% in identifying its context. LYDIA can distinguish with an accuracy of 97.24% between the words that have positive and negative relation to alcohol; and with an accuracy of 98.37% between the positive and negative context.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>LYDIA can automatically identify alcohol exposure and its context in song lyrics, which will allow for the swift analysis of future lyrics and can be used to help raise awareness about the amount of alcohol in music. Highlights Developed a deep learning algorithm (LYDIA) to identify alcohol words in songs. LYDIA achieved an accuracy of 86.6% in identifying alcohol-relation of the words. LYDIA's accuracy in identifying positive, negative, or neutral context was 72.9%. LYDIA can automatically provide evidence of alcohol in millions of songs. This can raise awareness of harms of listening to songs with alcohol words.</p>","PeriodicalId":7407,"journal":{"name":"Alcohol and alcoholism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10794165/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139485016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nima Tourchian, Daniel McCormack, Pamela Leece, Mina Tadrous, Tara Gomes
{"title":"Patterns of publicly funded naltrexone use among patients diagnosed with alcohol use disorder in Ontario.","authors":"Nima Tourchian, Daniel McCormack, Pamela Leece, Mina Tadrous, Tara Gomes","doi":"10.1093/alcalc/agad091","DOIUrl":"10.1093/alcalc/agad091","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>Naltrexone is recommended first-line to manage alcohol use disorder (AUD). With previous studies indicating poor retention on naltrexone, we determined duration of naltrexone use and assessed the association between prescription setting and time to discontinuation in Ontario.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We conducted a retrospective population-based cohort study among Ontario public drug beneficiaries diagnosed with AUD who initiated publicly funded naltrexone from June 2018 to September 2019. The primary outcome was time to naltrexone discontinuation, with a secondary analysis assessing receipt of at least one prescription refill. We used Cox proportional hazards models and logistic regression to test the association between prescription setting and each medication persistence outcome.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among 2531 new naltrexone patients with AUD, the median duration of naltrexone use was 31 days and 394 (15.6%) continued naltrexone for 6 months or longer. There was no association between setting of initiation and duration of naltrexone use; however, those initiating naltrexone following an acute inpatient hospital stay were more likely to fill a second prescription (aOR 1.43, 95% CI 0.96-2.14), while those initiating after an ED visit were less likely to be dispensed a second prescription (aOR = 0.69, 95% CI 0.52-0.90) compared to those starting in a physician's office.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Persistence on naltrexone to treat an AUD is low, regardless of the setting of initiation. Further research is needed to elucidate the barriers encountered by patients with AUD that lead to poor treatment persistence in order to develop interventions that facilitate patient-centered access to evidence-based treatment for AUD in the province.</p>","PeriodicalId":7407,"journal":{"name":"Alcohol and alcoholism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10833073/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139650044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the retirement of Jonathan Chick, Editor-in-Chief of Alcohol and Alcoholism: a fond and grateful farewell.","authors":"Lorenzo Leggio, Giancarlo Colombo","doi":"10.1093/alcalc/agae002","DOIUrl":"10.1093/alcalc/agae002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7407,"journal":{"name":"Alcohol and alcoholism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139670961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jørgen G Bramness, Lars Lien, Jenny S Moe, Helge Toft, Susmita Pandey, Torgeir G Lid, Magnus Strømmen, John R Andersen, Ingeborg Bolstad
{"title":"Bariatric surgery patients in AUD treatment in Norway-an exploratory cross-sectional study.","authors":"Jørgen G Bramness, Lars Lien, Jenny S Moe, Helge Toft, Susmita Pandey, Torgeir G Lid, Magnus Strømmen, John R Andersen, Ingeborg Bolstad","doi":"10.1093/alcalc/agae007","DOIUrl":"10.1093/alcalc/agae007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>Patients who have undergone some forms of bariatric surgery have increased risk of developing alcohol use disorder (AUD). In the present observational study, we compared patients with AUD who themselves reported to having undergone bariatric surgery with other patients in treatment for AUD.</p><p><strong>Materials: </strong>One-hundred-and-six consecutively enrolled patients in residential treatment for AUD were asked if they had undergone bariatric surgery. Sociodemographics, mental health-related, and alcohol use-related parameters were compared between those who had and those who had not undergone bariatric surgery.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of the 106 patients with AUD, seven (6.6%; 95% confidence interval, 2.7%-13.1%) had undergone bariatric surgery. Six of seven patients had undergone such surgery were women (P < .001). The patients with AUD who had undergone bariatric surgery were similar to other patients with AUD on most other parameters, the exception being a larger number of alcohol units ingested to feel an effect of alcohol (adjusted odds ratio 7.1; 95% confidence interval 2.0-12.2; P = .007).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The high number of patients with AUD that reported having undergone bariatric surgery emphasizes the risks following such a procedure. The overrepresentation of women may reflect than more women undergo such procedures. The unexpected finding that patients with AUD having undergone bariatric surgery seemed to need more alcohol to feel intoxicated warrants further research.</p>","PeriodicalId":7407,"journal":{"name":"Alcohol and alcoholism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11445783/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139899147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wei Q Deng, Kyla Belisario, Joshua C Gray, Emily E Levitt, James MacKillop
{"title":"A high-resolution PheWAS approach to alcohol-related polygenic risk scores reveals mechanistic influences of alcohol reinforcing value and drinking motives.","authors":"Wei Q Deng, Kyla Belisario, Joshua C Gray, Emily E Levitt, James MacKillop","doi":"10.1093/alcalc/agad093","DOIUrl":"10.1093/alcalc/agad093","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>This study uses a high-resolution phenome-wide approach to evaluate the motivational mechanisms of polygenic risk scores (PRSs) that have been robustly associated with coarse alcohol phenotypes in large-scale studies.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In a community-based sample of 1534 Europeans, we examined genome-wide PRSs for the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT), drinks per week, alcohol use disorder (AUD), problematic alcohol use (PAU), and general addiction, in relation to 42 curated phenotypes. The curated phenotypes were in seven categories: alcohol consumption, alcohol reinforcing value, drinking motives, other addictive behaviors, commonly comorbid psychiatric syndromes, impulsivity, and personality traits.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The PRS for each alcohol phenotype was validated via its within-sample association with the corresponding phenotype (adjusted R2s = 0.35-1.68%, Ps = 0.012-3.6 × 10-7) with the exception of AUD. All PRSs were positively associated with alcohol reinforcing value and drinking motives, with the strongest effects from AUDIT-consumption (adjusted R2s = 0.45-1.33%, Ps = 0.006-3.6 × 10-5) and drinks per week PRSs (adjusted R2s = 0.52-2.28%, Ps = 0.004-6.6 × 10-9). Furthermore, the PAU and drinks per week PRSs were positively associated with adverse childhood experiences (adjusted R2s = 0.6-0.7%, Ps = 0.0001-4.8 × 10-4).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These results implicate alcohol reinforcing value and drinking motives as genetically-influenced mechanisms using PRSs for the first time. The findings also highlight the value of dissecting genetic influence on alcohol involvement through diverse phenotypic risk pathways but also the need for future studies with both phenotypic richness and larger samples.</p>","PeriodicalId":7407,"journal":{"name":"Alcohol and alcoholism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139519351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}