Sentences with phrase «rates of alcoholism»

Because exposure to traumatic events is strongly associated with alcohol abuse, these traumas introduced high rates of alcoholism in Native communities, which in turn has led to a high rate of HIV and other STIs.

No wonder lawyers have disproportionately high rates of alcoholism: the coping methods develop right at the start.

Lawyers suffer from higher rates of alcoholism, divorce, depression, and suicide than any other profession.

Poverty is also associated with higher rates of alcoholism and other substance abuse in the home; greater incidence of child abuse and neglect; and heightened family involvement in the criminal justice system.

For the Navajo and other tribes, rates of alcoholism are estimated to be more than twice the national average.

Many studies have confirmed the low rates of alcoholism about Jews.

Yet as has been shown repeatedly both in this country and abroad, rates of alcoholism and other drinking pathologies for Jews are very low.5.

Harvard sociologist Robert F. Bales has stated that the rate of alcoholism will tend to rise when a society by its attitude «positively suggests drinking to the individual as a means of relieving his inner tensions.»

The high rate of alcoholism among Americans of Irish descent is thought to be due to the pressures in this subculture which encourage the use of alcohol as a means of interpersonal adjustment.

We also know that unified sanctions against drunkenness do not exist in American life in general, and that their absence contributes to the high rate of alcoholism.

There seems to be no evidence of a substantial rise in the rate of alcoholism 23 either among drinkers or in the total adult population since 1948.

It also had, often unadmitted and unacknowledged, a high rate of alcoholism and other forms of substance abuse.

The two researchers behind the work theorise that if the gene variant were to become globally dominant, it may be able to reduce the rate of alcoholism and health conditions linked to alcohol abuse.

For instance, the rate of alcoholism among sons of alcoholic parents is four to five times higher than among children of nonalcoholics.

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We have rampant corruption and abuse in our Gurdewara, we have the largest number of female fotiece abortion in India and probably in the rest of the world, we have Gurdewara's based on caste, we have the highest rate alcoholism in England (highest of liver damage), being born and raised in the UK, the girls are now drinking more then the guys.

Russia's grim Soviet - era housing, high rates of abortion and of alcoholism and substance abuse, crime syndicates controlled by the Mafia and widespread corruption — all these help to make Christianity deeply attractive.

They show that there was a substantial drop in the rate of chronic alcoholism during the decade of 1920 - 30.

What about a physiological explanation of the low Jewish alcoholism rate?

This statement becomes intelligible if one remembers that chronic alcoholism rates are the product of excessive drinking several years before the rates are given.

For example: Rates of rejection in the Armed Forces for chronic alcoholism in «World War 1 (60,000 cases): Irish — 3.0 %; Negro — 2.2 %; Italian — i.2 %; Jewish — 0.2 %; Chinese — O. 0 %.

If alcohol were the primary cause of alcoholism, the Jewish group could be expected to have a high rate, since 90 percent of American Jews drink.

The late E. M. Jellinek did a cross-cultural comparison of the relation between drinking practices and alcoholism rates in 25 countries.

No direct inference about international alcoholism rates should be drawn from comparing cirrhosis of the liver mortality rates, however, since the variations in the relationship between these rates and alcoholism rates, from country to country, are not known.

Variations of alcoholism rates among countries are also striking.22.

To what extent this reflects a «greater rate of emergence of formerly hidden alcoholism among women» 13 and to what extent a rise in the number of women alcoholics (associated with the increase of women drinkers since World War II) is not really known.

Accurate comparisons of alcoholism rates in different countries are extremely difficult to make because of wide variations in the way vital statistics are collected and recorded in this field.

For alcoholism, up to a quarter of people respond on their own, and a lot of recovery centers have rates that are not even that high.

Dr John Busby, lead author of the study, published in The British Journal of General Practice, said: «Admission rates for some of the conditions in our study, including alcoholism, schizophrenia and diabetes, were over three times higher in some practices than others.

Hospital admission rates are 55 per cent higher in some areas than in others because of a greater prevalence of conditions such as diabetes, alcoholism, dementia and socioeconomic deprivation.

In addition, the investigators found that rates of alcohol use disorder — sometimes called «alcoholism» — rose from 8.5 percent (about 18 million people) in 2001 - 2002 to 13 percent (nearly 30 million people) in 2012 - 2013.

Large amounts of alcohol can lead to / are connected to an increased amount of anemia, alcohol dementia, brain shrinkage, physical dependence, sexual dysfunction, hormonal imbalance in men and women, impaired prospective memory, Wernicke - Korsakoff syndrome, insomnia, higher rates of major depressive disorder, alcoholism, and different types of cancer (pharynx, larynx, esophagus, breast, and colon and rectum in men).

Sparing names, alcoholism has plagued lots of writers, I think because alcohol sometimes helps to get those 3rd and 4th rate ideas down on paper for to be expanded upon later and made into 2nd and sometimes 1st rate ideas.

We have the highest rate of depression, alcoholism and drug abuse of any profession out there and divorce lawyers are probably leading a lot of that... And it's not always easy to assume the role of advocate [in an adversarial practice].

«Even the ABA reports that depression, suicide, divorce, and alcoholism rates are higher for attorneys that work those types of hours.»

Citing statistics on lawyer depression from an article by Todd David Peterson and Elizabeth Waters Peterson, Serota says Lawyers have higher rates of depression than any other professional, after adjusting for socio - demographic factors, and are more likely to develop heart disease, alcoholism and drug use.

Whisman et al. (1997) found therapists rated power struggles as the fourth most difficult issue in therapy, right after lack of love, affairs, and alcoholism.