Search for dissertations about: "Drinking drug effects"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 swedish dissertations containing the words Drinking drug effects.

  2. 1. Women's alcohol and drug use. Risk indicators from everyday life

    Author : Christina Andersson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : Alcohol; substance use; drinking context; patterns of everyday occupations; epidemiology; women;

    Abstract : Aims: The overall aim of this thesis was to explore how various aspects of everyday life, measured using self-reported experiences from childhood, adolescence and adulthood were associated with alcohol and drug use in a population-based sample of Swedish women. Methods: The thesis is based on data from the “Women and Alcohol in Gothenburg” project, a Swedish three-wave longitudinal, population-based, multi-purpose study. READ MORE

  4. 2. Risky Health Behaviour among Adolescents

    Author : Petter Lundborg; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social economics; Social ekonomi; risky health behaviour; peer effects; substance use; illicit-drug use; smoking; alcohol; Econometric analysis; risk perception;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of four essays on risky health behaviour among adolescents. In the first paper, Young people and alcohol: an econometric analysis, the purpose was to analyse the determinants of adolescent drinking behaviour within an economic-theoretical framework. READ MORE

  5. 3. Early Environment, Adolescent Alcohol Drinking and Neurobiological Responses to Drugs

    Author : Sara Palm; Ingrid Nylander; Anne-Lie Svensson; Lundblad Martin; Giancarlo Colombo; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; adolescence; beta-endorphin; dopamine; dynorphin; endogenous opioids; enkephalin; high-speed chronoamperometry; housing conditions; maternal separation; multivariate concentric square field™ test; open field test; radioimmunoassay; voluntary alcohol intake; Wistar rats; Pharmaceutical Science; Farmaceutisk vetenskap;

    Abstract : Genes and environment interact to determine an individual’s vulnerability or resilience to several psychiatric disorders, including alcohol use disorder (AUD). Alcohol use is often initiated during adolescence and early onset drinking is associated with increased risk for later AUD. READ MORE

  6. 4. Evaluation of intervention programmes for hypercholesterolaemia, excessive drinking and physicians' prescribing in primary care

    Author : Ylva Tomson; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : Primary health care; health behavior; health care costs; drug utilization; prevention; risk factors; ethnic groups; drug costs; hypercholesterolaemia; alcohol drinking; asthma;

    Abstract : Interventions against riskful lifestyles and information to promote rational use of drugs are important in health care. The aim of this thesis is to assess the effectiveness of such interventions, looking at both costs and effects. READ MORE

  7. 5. Taste Hedonics and the Intake of Alcohol and Food

    Author : Anna Söderpalm; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Alcohol drinking; Adrenalectomy; Corticosterone; Cyanoketone; Food intake; Food restriction; GABA; Metyrapone; Taste reactivity; Benzodiazepine; Chlordiazepoxide; Cis Z -flupentixol; Diazepam; Flumazenil; Microinjections; Midazolam; Nucleus of the Solitary tract; Palatability; Parabrachial nucleus; Peduculopontine Tegmental Nucleus; Reward; 4th ventricle.;

    Abstract : This thesis includes four papers based on animal experimental work. They analyze the way in which activation of a specific motivational state - hunger- modulates the rewarding actions of alcohol and taste palatability. READ MORE