Alcohol Research Group

Health

ARG’s research on population health looks at alcohol-related outcomes of a group of individuals and the factors that contribute to poor health, including risk of chronic diseases such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes as well as the relationship between drinking and rates of injury, suicide and overall mortality. Our research findings provide essential information to inform policy and guide clinical best practice related to alcohol consumption and disease prevention. With a focus on differences among groups, our findings also help mitigate and reduce outcome disparities to promote healthier communities.

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  • Llamosas-Falcón, L., Rehm, J., Bright, S., Buckley, C., Carr, T., Kilian, C., Lasserre, A. M., Lemp, J. M., Zhu, Y., & Probst, C. (2024). The relationship between alcohol consumption, BMI, and type 2 diabetes: A systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis. Diabetes Care, 46 (11) 2076-2083 Abstract or Full Text
  • Fields, L., Young, D. A., Patel, A. R., Munroe, C., Shumway, M., Bell, S., & Richer, L. A. (2022). Drug-facilitated sexual assault, impaired trauma memory, and implications for mental health treatment. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 13 (1) 2057165 Abstract or Full Text
  • Martinez, P., Karriker-Jaffe, K. J., Ye, Y., Patterson, D., Greenfield, T. K., Mulia, N., & Kerr, W. C.  (2022). Mental health and drinking to cope in the early COVID period: Data from the 2019-2020 US National Alcohol Survey. Addictive Behaviors, 128 107247 Abstract or Full Text
  • Cook, W.K., Tam, C.C., Luczak, S., Kerr, W.C., Mulia, N., Lui, C., Li, L. (2021). Alcohol consumption, cardiovascular-related conditions, and ALDH2*2 ethnic group prevalence in Asian Americans. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 45 (2) 418-428 Abstract or Full Text
  • Mulia, N., Ye, Y., Karriker-Jaffe, K. J., Li, L., Kerr, W. C., & Greenfield, T. K (2021). The Great Recession, behavioral health, and self-rated health: An examination of racial/ethnic differences in the US. Addictive Behaviors, Abstract or Full Text
  • Cook, W. K., Tam, C. C., Luczak, S. E., Kerr, W. C., Mulia, N., Lui, C., & Li, L. (2021). Alcohol consumption, cardiovascular related conditions, and ALDH2*2 ethnic group prevalence in Asian Americans. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 45 (2) 418-428 Abstract or Full Text
  • Lui, C. K., Kerr, W. C., Li, L., Mulia, N., Ye, Y., Williams, E., Greenfield, T. K., & Lown, E. A. (2020). Lifecourse drinking patterns, hypertension, and heart problems among U.S. adults. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 58 (3) 386-395 Abstract or Full Text
  • Roberts, S.C.M., Mericle, A., Subbaraman, M., Thomas, S., Treffers, R., Delucchi, K., Kerr, W.C., (2019). State policies targeting alcohol use during pregnancy and alcohol use among pregnant women 1985-2016: Evidence from the behavioral risk factor surveillance system. Womens Health Issues, 29 (3) 213-221 Abstract or Full Text
  • Ye, Y., Shield, K., Cherpitel, C.J., Manthey, J., Korcha, R., Rehm, J., (2019). Estimating alcohol-attributable fractions for injuries based on data from emergency department and observational studies: a comparison of two methods. Addiction , 114 (3) 462-470 Abstract or Full Text
  • Kerr, W.C., Ye, Y., Williams, E., Lui, C.K., Greenfield, T.K., Lown, E.A., (2019). Lifetime alcohol use patterns and risk of diabetes onset in the National Alcohol Survey. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 43 (2) 262-269 Abstract or Full Text
  • Trangenstein, P., Wall, P., Jernigan, D., (2019). Collateral damage from college drinking: A conceptual framework for alcohol’s harms to others among US college students.. Substance Use Misuse, 54 (8) 1297-1308 Abstract or Full Text
  • Martinez, P., Zemore, S.E., (2019). Feasibility of a mail‐in, self‐administered dried blood spot collection method in national, population‐based alcohol surveys in the U.S.. Addiction , 114 (7) Abstract or Full Text
  • Cherpitel, C.J., Ye, Y., (2019). Validity of self-reports of drinking before injury by cause of injury and societal context among emergency department patients.. Drug and Alcohol Review, Abstract or Full Text
  • Cherpitel, C.J., Korcha, R.A., Witbrodt, J., Ye, Y., (2018). Risk of alcohol-related injury: does societal drinking context make a difference?. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 79 876-880 Abstract or Full Text
  • Karriker-Jaffe, K.J., Room, R., Giesbrecht, N., Greenfield, T.K. (2018). Alcohol’s harm to others: Opportunities and challenges in a public health framework. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 79 (2) 239-243 Abstract or Full Text
  • Kerr, W.C., Williams, E., Li, L., Lui, C. K., Ye, Y., Greenfield, T.K., Lown, E.A. (2018). Alcohol use patterns and risk of diabetes onset in the 1979 national longitudinal survey of youth cohort. Preventative Medicine, 109 22-27 Abstract or Full Text
  • Martinez, P., Lien, L., Zemore, S., Bramness, J.G., Neupane, S.P. (2018). Circulating cytokine levels are associated with symptoms of depression and anxiety among people with alcohol and drug use disorders. Journal of Neuroimmunology, 318 80-86 Abstract or Full Text
  • Cherpitel, C.J., Ye, Y., Poznyak, V. (2018). Single episode of alcohol use resulting in injury: a cross-sectional study in 21 countries. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 96 335-42 Abstract or Full Text
  • Subbaraman M.S., Thomas S., Treffers R., Delucchi K., Kerr W.C., Martinez P., Roberts S.C.M. (2018). Associations between state‐level policies regarding alcohol use among pregnant women, adverse birth outcomes, and prenatal care utilization. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, Abstract or Full Text
  • Korcha, R.A., Cherpitel, C.J., Bond, J.C., Ye, Y., Monteiro, M., Borges, G., Cook, W.K (2018). Drinking context and cause of injury: emergency department studies from 22 countries. Journal of Substance Use, 23 (3) 240-246 Abstract or Full Text
  • Subbaraman, Meenakshi S., Thomas, Sue, Treffers, Ryan, Delucchi, Kevin, Kerr, William C., Martinez, Priscilla. Roberts, Sarah C. M. (2018). Associations between state-level policies regarding alcohol use among pregnant women, adverse birth outcomes, and prenatal care utilization: results from 1972-2013 Vital Statistics.. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 42 (8) 1511-1517 Abstract or Full Text
  • Roberts, Sarah C. M., Mericle, Amy A., Subbaraman, Meenakshi S., Thomas, Sue, Treffers, Ryan D., Delucchi, Kevin L., Kerr, William C. (2018). Differential effects of pregnancy-specific alcohol policies on drinking among pregnant women by race/ethnicity. Health Equity, 2 (1) 356-365 Abstract or Full Text
  • Cherpitel, C.J., Ye, Y., Stockwell, T., Vallance, K., Chow, C., (2018). Recall bias across 7 days in self-reported alcohol consumption prior to injury among emergency department patients. Drug and Alcohol Review, 37 382-388 Abstract or Full Text
  • Cherpitel, C.J., Ye, Y., Kerr, W.C., (2018). Risk of past year injury related to hours of exposure to an elevated blood alcohol concentration and average monthly alcohol volume: Data from 4 National Alcohol Surveys. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 42 (2) 360-368 Abstract or Full Text
  • Grucza, R.A., Sher, K.J., Kerr, W.C., Krauss, M.J., Lui, C.K., McDowell, Y.E., Hartz, S., Virdi, G., Bierut, L.J. (2018). Trends in adult alcohol use and binge drinking in the early 21st century United States: A meta-analysis of six national survey series. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 42 1939-1950 Abstract or Full Text
  • Subbaraman, M.S., Kerr, W.C., (2018). Alcohol use and risk of related problems among cannabis users is lower among those with medical cannabis recommendations, though not due to health. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 79 (6) 935-942 Abstract or Full Text
  • Cherpitel C.J., Ye Y., Andreuccetti G., Stockwell T., Vallance K., Chow C., Brubacher J.R. (2017). Risk of injury from alcohol, marijuana and other drug use among emergency department patients. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 174 121-127 Abstract or Full Text
  • Kerr, W.C., Lui, C.K., Williams, E., Ye, Y., Greenfield, T.K., & Lown, E.A. (2017). Health risk factors associated with lifetime abstinence from alcohol in the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Cohort. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 41 (2) 388-398 Abstract or Full Text
  • Andreuccetti, G., Ye, Y., Kang, J., Korcha, R., Witbrodt, J., Carvalho, H.B., Cherpitel, C.J (2017). The effects of acute cannabis use and nontraffic injury risk: reviewing the available literature and identifying ways forward. , Abstract or Full Text
  • Borges G, Monteiro M, Cherpitel CJ, Orozco R, Ye Y, Poznyak V, Peden M, Pechansky F, Cremonte M, Reid SD, Mendez J (2017). Alcohol and road traffic injuries in Latin America and the Caribbean: a case-crossover study. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 41 (10) 1731-1737 Abstract or Full Text
  • Subbaraman M.S., Kerr W.C. (2017). Support for marijuana legalization in the US state of Washington has continued to increase through 2016. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 175 205-209 Abstract or Full Text
  • Lown, E.A., Cherpitel, C.J., Zemore, S.E., Borges, G., Greenfield, T.K., (2017). Hazardous drinking and exposure to interpersonal. , 39 528-545 Abstract or Full Text
  • Kerr WC, Ye Y, Greenfield TK, Williams E, Lui CK, Li L, Lown EA (2016). Changes in heavy drinking following onset of health problems in a U.S. general population sample. Preventive Medicine, 6 (95) 47-51 Abstract or Full Text
  • Subbaraman, M.S (2016). Complementarity and substitution of alcohol and cannabis: A review of the literature. Substance Use & Misuse, 51 (11) 1399-414 Abstract or Full Text
  • Greenfield, T.K., Karriker-Jaffe, K.J., Kerr, W.C., Ye, Y., & Kaplan, L.M.  (2016). Those harmed by others’ drinking in the US population are more depressed and distressed. Drug and Alcohol Review, 35 (1) 22-29 Abstract or Full Text
  • Polcin, D. L., Korcha, R., Bond, J., Galloway, G., &  Nayak, M. (2016). Changes in psychiatric symptoms among persons with methamphetamine dependence predicts changes in severity of drug problems but not frequency of use. Substance Abuse, 37 (1) 209-214 Abstract or Full Text
  • Greenfield, T.K., Karriker-Jaffe, K.J., Kaplan, L.M., Kerr, W.C., Wilsnack, S.C. (2015). Trends in Alcohol’s Harms to Others (AHTO) and co-occurrence of family-related AHTO: the four US National Alcohol Surveys 2000 to 2015. Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment, 9 (Suppl. 2) 23-31 Abstract or Full Text
  • Polcin, D.L.   (2015). Co-occurring substance abuse and mental health problems among homeless persons: Suggestions for research and practice. Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless, Abstract or Full Text
  • Cherpitel, C.J., Ye, Y., Bond, J., Borge,s G., Monteiro, M., Chou, P., Hao, W. (2015). Alcohol attributable fraction for injury morbidity from the dose-response relationship of acute alcohol consumption: emergency department data from 18 countries. Addiction, 110 (11) 1724-1732 Abstract or Full Text
  • Kerr W.C., Ye Y., Cherpitel C.J. (2015). Racial/ethnic disparities in the risk of injury related to the frequency of heavy drinking occasions. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 50 (5) 573-578 Abstract or Full Text
  • Cherpitel, C.J., Ye, Y. (2015). Risky drinking, alcohol use disorders and health services utilization in the U.S. general population: data from the 2005 and 2010 National Alcohol Surveys. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 39 (9) 1698-1704. Abstract or Full Text
  • Subbaraman M.S., Kerr W.C. (2015). Simultaneous versus concurrent use of alcohol and cannabis in the National Alcohol Survey. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 39 (5) 872-879. Abstract or Full Text
  • Cherpitel C.J., Ye Y., Bond J., Borges G., Monteiro M. (2015). Relative risk of injury from acute alcohol consumption: modeling the dose-response relationship in emergency department data from 18 countries. Addiction, 110 (2) 279-88 Abstract or Full Text
  • Polcin D.L., Korcha R., Bond J. (2015). Interaction of motivation and psychiatric symptoms on substance abuse outcomes in Sober Living Houses. Substance Use and Misuse, 50 (2) 195-204 Abstract or Full Text
  • Greenfield TK, Kerr W (2014). Physicians’ prescription for lifetime abstainers aged 40 to 50 to take a drink a day is not yet justified. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 38 (12) 2893-5 Abstract or Full Text
  • Neupane S.P., Lien L., Martinez P., Aukrust P., Ueland T., Mollnes T.E., et al (2014). High frequency and intensity of drinking may attenuate elevated inflammatory cytokine levels of major depression in alcohol-use disorders. CNS Neuroscience and Therapeutics, 20 (10) 898-904 Abstract or Full Text
  • Cherpitel, C.J. (2014). Focus on: the burden of alcohol use – trauma and emergency outcomes. Alcohol Research: Current Reviews, 35 150-154 Abstract or Full Text
  • Cherpitel, C.J., Ye, Y. (2014). Differences in risk of injury in the U.S. general population by injury treatment type: data from the 1995-2010 National Alcohol Surveys. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 38 1094-1099 Abstract or Full Text
  • Nelson, D.E., Jarman, D.W., Rehm, J., Greenfield, T.K., Rey, G., Kerr, W.C., Miller, P., Shield, K.D., Ye, Y., & Naimi, T.S. (2013). Alcohol-associated cancer deaths and years of potential life lost in the United States. American Journal of Public Health, 103 (4) 641-648 Abstract or Full Text
  • Polcin, D. L., Buscemi, R., Nayak, M., Korcha, R., & Galloway, G. (2012). Sex differences in psychiatric symptoms among methamphetamine-dependent residents in sober living houses. Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment, 11 (2) 53-63 Abstract or Full Text
  • Nayak, M.B., Lown,  E.A., Bond, J.C., &  Greenfield, T.K. (2012). Lifetime victimization and current alcohol use in a U.S. population sample of men and women drinkers. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, doi: S0376-8716(11)00516-3 Abstract or Full Text
  • Cook, W.K. & Cherpitel, C. (2012). Access to health care and heavy drinking in patients with diabetes and hypertension. Substance Use & Misuse, 47 (6) 726-733 Abstract or Full Text
  • Polcin, D., Korcha, R., Greenfield, T. K., Bond, J., Kerr, W. (2012). Pressure to reduce drinking and reasons for seeking treatment. Contemporary Drug Problems, 39 (4) 687-714 Abstract or Full Text
  • Polcin, D. L., Korcha, R., Greenfield, T. K., Bond, J., & Kerr, W. (2012). Twenty‐one year trends and correlates of pressure to change drinking. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 36 (4) 705-715 Abstract or Full Text
  • Kerr, W.C., Ye, Y. (2011). Beverage-specific mortality relationships in US population data,. Contemporary Drug Problems, 38 561-577 Abstract or Full Text
  • Kerr W.C., Subbaraman, M., Ye, Y. (2011). Per capita alcohol consumption and suicide mortality in a panel of US states from 1950 to 2002. Drug and Alcohol Review, 30 (5) 473-480 Abstract or Full Text
  • Roerecke, M., Greenfield, T.K., Kerr, W.C., Bond, J., Ye, Y., Bondy, S., Cohen J., & Rehm, J. (2011). Heavy drinking occasions in relation to ischaemic heart disease mortality: an 11-22 year follow-up of the 1984 and 1995 US National Alcohol Surveys. International Journal of Epidemiology, 40 1401-1410 Abstract or Full Text
  • Ye, Y. & Kerr, W. C. (2011). Alcohol and liver cirrhosis mortality: comparison of methods for the analyses of time-series panel data models in the US. Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, 35 (1) 108-115 Abstract or Full Text
  • Kerr, W.C., Karriker-Jaffe, K.J., Subbaraman, M. & Ye, Y. (2011). Per capita alcohol consumption and ischemic heart disease mortality in a panel of US states from 1950 to 2002. Addiction, 106 313-322 Abstract or Full Text
  • Kerr, W. C., Greenfield, T. K., Bond, J., Ye, Y. and Rehm, J. (2011). Racial and ethnic differences in all-cause mortality risk according to consumption patterns in the National Alcohol Surveys. American Journal of Epidemiology, 174 (7) 769-778 Abstract or Full Text
  • Nayak, M. B., Korcha, R. A., & Benegal, V. (2010). Alcohol use, mental health, and HIV-related risk behaviors among adult men in Karnataka. AIDS and Behavior, 14 ((Suppl. 1)) S61-S73 Abstract or Full Text
  • Cherpitel, C.J., Borges, G., Ye, Y., Bond, J., Cremonte, M., Moskalewicz, J. &  Swiatkiewicz G. (2010). Performance of a craving criterion in DSM alcohol use disorders. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 71 674-684 Abstract or Full Text
  • Nayak, M.B., Patel, V., Bond, J., & Greenfield, T.K. (2010). Partner alcohol use, violence and women’s mental health: a population based survey in India.. British Journal of Psychiatry, 196 192-199 Abstract or Full Text
  • Kerr, W.C. & Ye, Y. (2010). Effects of life-course drinking patterns on diabetes, heart problems and hypertension among those 40 and older in the 2005 US National Alcohol Survey. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 4 515-525. Abstract or Full Text
  • Cherpitel, C. J., & Ye, Y. (2008). Trends in alcohol- and drug-related ED and primary care visits: data from three U.S. National Surveys (1995-2005). The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 34 576-83 Abstract or Full Text
  • Greenfield, T. K., Stoneking, B. C., Sundby, E., Humphreys, K., & Bond, J. (2008). A randomized trial of a mental health consumer-managed alternative civil commitment. Am. J. Community Psychol., 42 (2-Jan) 135-44 Abstract or Full Text
  • Sanda, M. G., Dunn, R. L., Michalski, J., Sandler, H. M., Northouse, L., Hembroff, L., Lin, X., Greenfield, T. K., Litwin, M. S., Saigal, C. S., Mahadevan, A., Klein, E., Kibel, A., Pisters, L. L., Kuban, D., Kaplan, I., Wood, D., Ciezki, (2008). Quality of life and satisfaction with outcome among prostate-cancer survivors and their partners. The New England Journal of Medicine, 358 (12) 36-47 Abstract or Full Text
  • Cherpitel, C. J., & Ye, Y. (2008). Drug use and problem drinking associated with primary care and emergency room utilization in the US general population: data from the 2005 National Alcohol Survey. Drug Alcohol Depend., 97 226-30 Abstract or Full Text
  • Lown, E. A., Greenfield, T. K., Rogers, J D (2007). Health effects from drinking: type severity, and associated drinking patterns based on qualitative and quantitative questions in a methodological survey. Substance Use & Misuse, 42 (5) 793-810 Abstract or Full Text
  • Rehm, J., Greenfield, T. K., & Kerr, W. C. (2006). Patterns of drinking and mortality from different diseases – an overview. Contemp. Drug Prob., 33 (2) 205-35
  • Cherpitel, C. J. (2005). Trends in alcohol- and drug-related ER and primary care visits, 1995-2000: Are Healthy People 2000 objectives met?. Am. J. Addict., 14 (3) 281-90 Abstract or Full Text
  • Cherpitel, C. J., Ye, Y., & Bond, J. (2005). Attributable risk of injury associated with alcohol use: a cross-national meta-analysis from the Emergency Room Collaborative Alcohol Analysis Project. American Journal of Public Health, 95 (2) 266-272 Abstract or Full Text
  • Cherpitel, C. J. (2003). Changes in substance use associated with emergency room and primary care services utilization in the United States general population: 1995-2000. Am. J. Drug Alcohol Abuse, 29 (4) 789-802 Abstract or Full Text
  • Greenfield, T. K., Rehm, J, Rogers, J D (2002). Effects of depression and social integration on the relationship between alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality. Addiction, 97 (1) 29-38 Abstract or Full Text
  • Cherpitel, C. J. (2002). Screening for alcohol problems in the U.S. general population: comparison of the CAGE, and RAPS4, and RAPS4-QF by gender, ethnicity, and services utilization. Alcohol. Clin. Exp. Res., 26 (11) 1686-91 Abstract or Full Text
  • Greenfield, T. K. (2001). Individual risk of alcohol-related disease and problems. International Handbook of Alcohol Problems and Dependence, 413-37
  • Cherpitel, C. J. (1999). Emergency room and primary care services utilization and associated alcohol and drug use in the United States general population. Alcohol Alcohol, 34 (4) 581-89
  • Cherpitel, C. J. (1999). Screening for alcohol problems in the U.S. general population: a comparison of the CAGE and TWEAK by gender, ethnicity and service utilization. J. Stud. Alcohol, 60 705-11
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