Financial troubles due to someone else's drinking and assaults perpetrated by drinking intimates (spouses, other partners, or family members) are associated with reduced mental health. This according to a recent study that aimed to assess mental health in relation to 2 serious types of alcohol’s harm to others (AHTO), financial harm and assault by someone who had been drinking, using propensity score (PS) weighting to adjust for potentially confounding differences. Researchers conducted a cross‐sectional, nationally representative, random sample of US adults. 76 respondents reported financial harm compared with 4,625 with no past‐year AHTO; 192 respondents reported assault compared with 4,623 with no past‐year AHTO. They found:

• In double‐robust PS weighted models for financial harm, there were associations with reduced quality of life (B = −0.28) and increased distress [adjusted odds ratio (aOR) = 4.69], and for assault by a partner or family member, there were associations with increased distress (aOR = 2.23).
• For assault by a friend or stranger, none of the associations are statistically significant after PS weighting.