Summaries of Must-Read Clinical Literature, Guidelines, and FDA Actions

Identifying Women with Unhealthy Alcohol Use

Am J Addictions; ePub 2018 Feb 28; Hoggatt, et al

Publish date:: March 12, 2018

Gender-tailored binge-drinking questions may improve detection of women's unhealthy alcohol use, a recent study found. Among 1,349 women veterans, researchers calculated the proportion screening positive for unhealthy alcohol use with non-tailored vs gender-tailored criteria (a gender-tailored binge-drinking item, lower screen-positive threshold, or both). They found:

3% more women screened positive with a modified binge-drinking question, most reporting risky drinking.
15% more women screened positive with a lower threshold; most did not report risky drinking.

Citation:

Hoggatt KJ, Simpson T, Schweizer CA, Drexler K, Yano EM. Identifying women veterans with unhealthy alcohol use using gender-tailored screening. [Published online ahead of print February 28, 2018]. Am J Addictions. doi:10.1111/ajad.12689.

This Week's Must Reads

MDD: Modest improvements in female sexual functioning with adjunctive brexpiprazole,

Transcranial direct current stimulation not clinically relevant in MDD,

Interleukin-1 β and TNF-α hamper antidepressant response in MDD,

Impact of pimavanserin on anxious depression in patients with MDD,

Prior MDD moderates the association between endothelin-1 and post-ACS depressive symptoms,

Must Reads in Addiction Medicine

E-cigarette use tied to increased COPD, asthma risk,

National lung cancer screening guidelines may miss younger African American individuals at high risk,

Alcohol problems linked to legal performance-enhancement products,

Report describes intoxication with new psychoactive substance,

Adolescent alcohol, opioid misuse linked to risky behaviors,