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This digital document is an article from Alcohol Research & Health, published by U.S. Government Printing Office on December 22, 2002. The length of the article is 4508 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: International gender and alcohol research: recent findings and future directions.
Author: Sharon C. Wilsnack
Publication:Alcohol Research & Health (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 2002
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
Volume: 26 Issue: 4 Page: 245(7)

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Studies on Alcohol, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2006. The length of the article is 7102 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Objective: Women's alcohol consumption in the United States has aroused increased public concern, despite a scarcity of evidence of any major increases in women's drinking. To help resolve this apparent inconsistency, we examined patterns of historical and age-related changes in U.S. women's drinking from 1981 to 2001. Method: In national surveys of women in 1981, 1991, and 2001, we measured the prevalence of 12-month and 30-day drinking, heavy episodic drinking (HED; six or more drinks per day), and subjective intoxication. Using these data, we analyzed time and age trends for six 10-year age groups in each survey, taking into account effects of repeated observations and possible covariates (ethnicity, marital status, and education). Results: Women's 12-month drinking did not change significantly between 1981 and 1991, but it became more prevalent in the total samples between 1991 and 2001. Among 12-month drinkers, however, 30-day abstinence increased from 1981 to 2001 (particularly among women drinkers ages 21-30). From 1981 to 2001, HED declined (particularly among women drinkers ages 21-30), but intoxication became more prevalent (particularly among women drinkers ages 21-50). Drinking, HED, and intoxication became consistently less prevalent with increasing age. Conclusions: Among drinkers, increases in 30-day abstinence and declines in HED suggest that recent alarms about women's drinking may have been overstated. The contrast of lower rates of HED but increased reports of intoxication may indicate that women are more alert to alcohol's effects now than in earlier decades.

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Title: Are U.S. women drinking less (or more)? Historical and aging trends, 1981-2001 *.
Author: Richard W. Wilsnack
Publication:Journal of Studies on Alcohol (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 67 Issue: 3 Page: 341(8)

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Studies on Alcohol, published by Alcohol Research Documentation, Inc. on May 1, 1997. The length of the article is 7288 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Objective: Clinical studies have found elevated rates of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) in women seeking treatment for alcohol or drug abuse, and elevated rates of alcohol and drug disorders among female psychiatric patients with histories of CSA. The present study examines the relationship of CSA to women's use of alcohol and other drugs in a large, nationally representative sample of U.S. women. Method: As part of a national survey of women's drinking, 1,099 women were asked about sexual experiences occurring before age 18. Women who reported sexual experiences classified as abusive were compared to women without histories of CSA on nine measures of substance use, self-perception of anxiousness, the occurrence of one or more lifetime depressive episodes, five measures of sexual dysfunction, and early onset of masturbation and consensual sexual intercourse. Results: Results of logit analyses, controlling for age, ethnicity and parental education, indicated that women with histories of CSA were significantly more likely than women without CSA histories to report recent alcohol use, intoxication, drinking-related problems and alcohol dependence symptoms; lifetime use of prescribed psychoactive drugs and illicit drugs; depression and anxiety; pain that prevented intercourse; and consensual sexual intercourse before age 15. Conclusions: Findings from this U.S. national sample support those of previous clinical studies and suggest that women's experience of sexual abuse in childhood may be an important risk factor for later substance abuse, psychopathology and sexual dysfunction. Implications of these findings for future research, treatment and prevention are discussed. (J. Stud. Alcohol 58: 264-271, 1997)

From the supplier: The experience of childhood sexual abuse is significantly linked to higher adult incidences of drug and alcohol abuse, sexual dysfunction and depression for 1,099 US women surveyed in 1991. Respondents who reported childhood sexual abuse also experienced an earlier onset of consensual sexual intercourse than those not reporting such abuse. Over one-third of respondents admitting sexual abuse as children also reported long-term use of at least one illegal drug. Theoretical models that clearly explain the linkage between childhood sexual abuse and substance abuse problems must be developed.

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Title: Childhood sexual abuse and women's substance abuse: national survey findings.
Author: Sharon C. Wilsnack
Publication:Journal of Studies on Alcohol (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 1997
Publisher: Alcohol Research Documentation, Inc.
Volume: v58 Issue: n3 Page: p264(8)

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I awakened this morning certain of only one thing. I?m in trouble Huge trouble Physical, mental, and emotional The kind from which few, if any, survive I haven?t had a drink in a couple of days. So, this is what it?s like. ...I know what I?m going through. I know what others will see. It no longer matters. Fear, shame, embarrassment are overcome by one inescapable fact: I was afraid I would die, when I desperately wanted to live... You see, I?d been in free-fall for such a long time, afraid I?d never land. Now, with the ground rushing to meet me, I no longer wondered if I would; instead, the greater question became, would I survive the crash? I picked up the phone and called my son. My options had run out, including denial..
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2008. The length of the article is 9333 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Objective: Studies of alcohol use among lesbians have typically used convenience samples with uncertain generalizability or general population samples with small numbers of lesbians. Here we compare rates of high-risk and problem drinking in a large sample of Chicago-area lesbians and a national sample of age- and education-matched urban heterosexual women. Method: Data came from comparable face-to-face interviews with 405 self-identified Chicago-area lesbians and with 548 urban women from a U.S. national sample. Rates of hazardous drinking (heavy episodic drinking, intoxication, drinking-related problems, alcohol-dependence symptoms) were compared for exclusively heterosexual, mostly heterosexual, bisexual, mostly lesbian, and exclusively lesbian subgroups. Results: Exclusively heterosexual women had lower rates than did all other women on all measures of hazardous drinking. Exclusively heterosexual women also reported less childhood sexual abuse, early alcohol use, and depression. Bisexual women reported more hazardous drinking indicators and depression than did exclusively or mostly lesbian women. Conclusions: These results indicate that sexual minority women are likely to have elevated risks of hazardous drinking. The differences between lesbian and bisexual women suggest that more attention is needed to subgroup differences among sexual minority women. Health care providers need to know the sexual identity of their patients and how their sexual identity may affect their risks for hazardous drinking. Higher rates of childhood sexual abuse, early drinking, and depression among sexual minority women suggest that these experiences may be important in assessing and treating problems related to their drinking, and in developing prevention and early intervention strategies.

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Title: Drinking and drinking-related problems among heterosexual and sexual minority women *.(Report)
Author: Sharon C. Wilsnack
Publication:Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2008
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 69 Issue: 1 Page: 129(11)

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