Journal
ADDICTION
Volume 114, Issue 3, Pages 425-433Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/add.14447
Keywords
Comparative studies; cross-national comparison; demographic variation; interpersonal harm; others' drinking; risky drinking
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Funding
- GENAHTO Project (Gender and Alcohol's Harm to Others)
- University of North Dakota (USA), Aarhus University (Denmark)
- NIAAA [R01 AA23870, R21 AA012941, R01 AA015775, R01 AA022791, R01 AA023870, P50 AA005595]
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- European Commission (Concerted Action) [QLG4-CT-2001-0196]
- Pan American Health Organization
- Thai Health Promotion Foundation
- Australian National Health and Medical Research Council [1065610]
- Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education, Canberra
- National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia [1065610] Funding Source: NHMRC
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Aims Survey data from 10 diverse countries were used to analyse the social location of harms from others' drinking: which segments of the population are more likely to be adversely affected by such harm, and how does this differ between societies? Methods General-population surveys in Australia, Chile, India, Laos, New Zealand, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Thailand, United States and Vietnam, with a primary focus on the social location of the harmed person by gender, age groups, rural/urban residence and drinking status. Harms from known drinkers were analysed separately from harms from strangers. Results In all sites, risky or moderate drinkers were more likely than abstainers to report harm from the drinking of known drinkers, with risky drinkers the most likely to report harm. This was also generally true for harm from strangers' drinking, although the patterns were more mixed in Vietnam and Thailand. Harm from strangers' drinking was more often reported by males, while gender disparity in harm from known drinkers varied between sites. Younger adults were more likely to experience harm both from known drinkers and from strangers in some, but not all, societies. Only a few sites showed significant urban/rural differences, with disparities varying in direction. In multivariate analyses, most relationships remained, although some were no longer significant. Conclusion The social location of harms from others' drinking, whether known or a stranger, varies considerably between societies. One near-commonality among the societies is that those who are themselves risky drinkers are more likely to suffer harm from others' drinking.
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