ArticleAlcoholism, clinical and experimental research2016
Heavy Alcohol Use Among Suicide Decedents Relative to a Nonsuicide Comparison Group: Gender-Specific Effects of Economic Contraction.
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- Job loss, financial strain, and housing problems as suicide precipitants: Associations with other life stressors.SSM - population health · 2022Article
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on temporal patterns of mental health and substance abuse related mortality in Michigan: An interrupted time series analysis.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2022Article
- Shifting patterns of disparities in unintentional injury mortality rates in the United States, 1999-2016.Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2021Article
- Unrecognised self-injury mortality (SIM) trends among racial/ethnic minorities and women in the USA.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2020Observational
- Alcohol Use and COVID-19: Can we Predict the Impact of the Pandemic on Alcohol Use Based on the Previous Crises in the 21st Century? A Brief Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Review
- The National Violent Death Reporting System: Use of the Restricted Access Database and Recommendations for the System's Improvement.American journal of preventive medicine · 2017Article
- Depression in Sardinian immigrants in Argentina and residents in Sardinia at the time of the Argentinian default (2001) and the Great Recession in Italy (2015).BMC psychiatry · 2017Observational
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Abstract
backgroundThe primary objective of this gender-stratified study was to assess the rate of heavy alcohol use among suicide decedents relative to a nonsuicide comparison group during the 2008 to 2009 economic crisis.
methodsThe National Violent Death Reporting System and the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System were analyzed by gender-stratified multiple logistic regression to test whether change in acute intoxication (blood alcohol content ≥0.08 g/dl) before (2005 to 2007), during (2008 to 2009), and after (2010 to 2011) the Great Recession mirrored change in heavy alcohol use in a living sample.
resultsAmong men, suicide decedents experienced a significantly greater increase (+8%) in heavy alcohol use at the onset of the recession (adjusted ratio of odds ratio = 1.15, 95% confidence interval = 1.10 to 1.20) (relative to the prerecession period) than did men in a nonsuicide comparison group (-2%). Among women, changes in rates of heavy alcohol use were similar in the suicide and nonsuicide comparison groups at the onset and after the recession.
conclusionsAcute alcohol use contributed to suicide among men during the recent economic downturn. Among women who died by suicide, acute alcohol use mirrored consumption in the general population. Women may show resilience (or men, vulnerability) to deleterious interaction of alcohol with financial distress.
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