Background: Alcohol is the drug most commonly used by Canadians, with multiple impacts
on health and health service use. We examined patterns of short-and long-term health …

Background The purpose of this study was to determine whether general practitioner visits
for alcohol-attributed diseases increased in a decade when several regulatory changes …

 In recent years there has been a renewed focus on reducing the harms of addictive
substances such as alcohol while at the same time restraining or reducing health care costs …

Background Alcohol use disorders are risk factors for almost all health conditions due to
heavy alcohol use. The epidemiology of alcohol use disorders can be used to monitor harm …

BACKGROUND: Alcohol use causes a large burden on the health of Canadians, and
alcohol-related harms appear to be increasing in many high-income countries. We sought to …

Background While alcohol‐related problems have been found to be overrepresented in
clinical samples of patients, less is known about health services utilization in the general …

Objectives In Singapore, the estimated prevalence of alcohol use disorder is 1.9%.
However, the impact of excess alcohol consumption on healthcare resource utilization is …

Background Patients with alcohol dependence (AD) often seek help from medical
professionals due to alcohol-related diseases, but the overall distribution of medical …

Objective: While the overall health system burden of alcohol is large and increasing in
Canada, little is known about how this burden differs by sociodemographic factors. The …

The purpose of this study was to examine geographic variations in primary health care
utilization for diseases wholly attributed to alcohol consumption using physician billing data …