Ingeborg Rossow

..To estimate the effect on violence of small changes in closing hours for on-premise alcohol sales, and to assess whether a possible effect is symmetrical...

..Little is known about the enforcement of minimum legal age for purchase of alcohol (18 years) in Norway. We have assessed to what extent this requirement is fulfilled in grocery stores, on-premise outlets and monopoly outlets...

..The results support the assumption that intoxication is significantly related to the association between alcohol consumption and deliberate self-harm in adolescents...

..Data sets Two national surveys of Norwegian adult samples (n = 4321 current drinkers) and one register linkage of Swedish armed forces conscripts (n = 45 839 current drinkers) with in-patient hospital data...

..Knowledge about how under-aged adolescents procure alcohol and the relative importance of the various sources is important in order to reduce the availability of alcohol among adolescents...

..To assess whether a substantial increase in substance use over a 10-year period has had an impact on the level of, or associations with, non-fatal suicidal behaviour among Norwegian teenagers...

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..This study presents new data on underaged who buy cigarettes and snus for themselves; i.e. number of buyers and their characteristics...

..To assess whether government monopoly outlets comply better with minimum legal age for purchase of alcohol compared to other off-premise outlets for alcohol sales...

..Elevated risk of DSH in adolescent cannabis users seems to be mainly due to selection mechanisms. Thus the association is not likely to be direct but due to other shared contributory factors...

..The calculated potential effects of chain of care on national suicide rates were very small, even under unrealistically favorable conditions...

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..DESIGN, PARTICIPANTS AND MEASUREMENTS: Cross-sectional survey in a national sample of adults. Net sample comprised 2170 respondents. Negative consequences from others' drinking during the past 12 months were assessed by seven items...

..to happen to rates of other problem behaviors when heavy drinking becomes more widespread? Do such aggregate level changes in alcohol use imply that individual level associations between drunkenness and behavioral deviance change as well?..

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..How the prevalence of this form of polysubstance use co-varied with the overall level of alcohol and cannabis use in different countries was also examined...

..To assess the association between drinking behaviour among adolescents with both immigrant and native backgrounds with aspects of acculturation...

..The negative consequences of pathological gambling are related to social, economical and relational problems. Few studies are available on possible associations between gambling and suicidal behaviour. Updated literature reviews are needed...

..For this type of drug users the individual's risk of recurrent overdoses may be lower due to fewer events of heroin intake...

..Taken together, the findings indicate that adolescents who mature early have access to a larger variety of sources of alcohol than adolescents who mature later - which in turn may explain their increased level of drinking...

..Predictors of a high quality of care level were training of staff in management and care of suicide attempters and to have written guidelines for the care...

..We wanted to explore the extent to which quality indicators at the hospital level measured in 1999 and 2006 could predict the presence or absence of a chain of care structure in the CHS in 2006...

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..Yet, the typical S-shaped curve for adoption rate was not found, nor the expected association between wine consumption and social network...

..i) To compare actual developments of alcohol-related harm in Sweden with estimates derived prior to major policy changes in 1995 and (ii) to estimate the effects on consumption and alcohol-related harm of reducing alcohol prices in Sweden...

..Girls' higher level of risk factors may account for their higher level of self-reported nonfatal suicidal behavior...