Prevalence of Alcohol-Interactive Prescription Medication Use Among Current Drinkers: United States, 1999 to 2010

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 371-379

  Breslow, Rosalind A ^a   Dong, Chuanhui ^b   White, Aaron ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

^b CSR INCORPORATED   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol Consumption; Cross Sectional Survey; Drinking Behavior; Drinking Patterns; Drugs; Medications; National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; Prescription Medications

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AGENTS; PRESCRIPTION DRUG; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG ALCOHOL INTERACTION; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG INTERACTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG INTERACTIONS; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION SURVEYS; PRESCRIPTION DRUGS; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922826264     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acer.12633     Document Type: Article

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