SynthesisEpidemiologic reviews2016
Alcohol Use and Firearm Violence.
Synthesis in Epidemiologic reviews, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
56 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 115 citations in OpenAlex.
- Prevalence of Alcohol and Other Drug Use in Patients Presenting to Hospital for Violence-Related Injuries: A Systematic Review.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2024Pooled it
- Changes in alcohol policies and practices in bars and restaurants after completion of manager-focused responsible service training.Drug and alcohol review · 2018Trial
- Effects of a Hybrid Online and In-Person Training Program Designed to Reduce Alcohol Sales to Obviously Intoxicated Patrons.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2017Trial
- How Do States Regulate the Intersection of Alcohol and Firearms? A 50-State Assessment of Alcohol-Related Firearm Laws, 2010-2023.American journal of preventive medicine · 2026Article
- Firearm violence victimization in the United States: do drug preferences matter?Preventive medicine reports · 2026Article
- Public support for gun restrictions in public places that serve alcohol: the cost of enforcement matters.Health affairs scholar · 2026Article
- Alcohol and violent deaths in the United States, 2015-2022.Injury epidemiology · 2026Article
- Extreme Risk Protection Orders and Firearm and Nonfirearm Suicides in the US.JAMA health forum · 2026Article
- Examining longitudinal associations between polysubstance use and firearm-related risk behaviors from adolescence into emerging adulthood: a group-based multi-trajectory modeling approach.Injury epidemiology · 2025Article
- Public Firearms Carriage and Public Opinion, National Gun Policy Survey, 2023.American journal of public health · 2025Article
- Epidemiology of fatal and nonfatal community firearm violence in New York City, 2019-2023.Injury epidemiology · 2025Article
- Interactive associations of cannabis and alcohol outlet densities with assault injuries in California: a spatiotemporal analysis.American journal of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Gun Free Zones in Alcohol-Serving Establishments and Risk for Firearm Violence: A Cross-Sectional, Geospatial Study in Texas.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2025Article
- Facilitators to implementing preventive health interventions for adolescents in the emergency department: A multicenter qualitative analysis.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2025Article
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- Firearm possession among emergency department youth and young adults: A latent class analysis.Preventive medicine · 2025Article
- Assessing Links Between Alcohol Exposure and Firearm Violence: A Scoping Review Update.Alcohol research : current reviews · 2025Article
- Associations Between Perceived Threats and Firearm Behaviors Among U.S. Adults.American journal of preventive medicine · 2024Article
- The prevalence of alcohol-related deaths in autopsies performed in Lithuania between 2017 and 2020: a cross-sectional study.European journal of public health · 2024Article
- Relationships of State Alcohol Policy Environments With Homicides and Suicides.American journal of preventive medicine · 2024Article
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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Although the misuse of firearms is necessary to the occurrence of firearm violence, there are other contributing factors beyond simply firearms themselves that might also be modified to prevent firearm violence. Alcohol is one such key modifiable factor. To explore this, we undertook a 40-year (1975-2014) systematic literature review with meta-analysis. One large group of studies showed that over one third of firearm violence decedents had acutely consumed alcohol and over one fourth had heavily consumed alcohol prior to their deaths. Another large group of studies showed that alcohol was significantly associated with firearm use as a suicide means. Two controlled studies showed that gun injury after drinking, especially heavy drinking, was statistically significant among self-inflicted firearm injury victims. A small group of studies investigated the intersection of alcohol and firearms laws and alcohol outlets and firearm violence. One of these controlled studies found that off-premise outlets selling takeout alcohol were significantly associated with firearm assault. Additional controlled, population-level risk factor and intervention studies, including randomized trials of which only 1 was identified, are needed. Policies that rezone off-premise alcohol outlets, proscribe blood alcohol levels and enhance penalties for carrying or using firearms while intoxicated, and consider prior drunk driving convictions as a more precise criterion for disqualifying persons from the purchase or possession of firearms deserve further study.
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