@article{ref1,
title="Gender-specific risk relationship between heavy alcohol use/alcohol use disorders and suicidal thoughts and behavior among adults in the United States over time",
journal="Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology",
year="2022",
author="Lange, Shannon and Jiang, Huan and Bagge, Courtney and Probst, Charlotte and Tran, Alexander and Rehm, Jürgen",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="PURPOSE: Suicidal thoughts and behaviors have been on the rise in the recent years in the US. There is a well-known link between heavy alcohol use/alcohol use disorders (AUDs) and suicidal thoughts and behaviors. An increase in the respective risk relationships is one way in which heavy alcohol use/AUDs may be driving the increase in the rate of suicidal thoughts and behaviors. The objective of the current study was to investigate whether the gender-specific risk relationships between heavy alcohol use/AUDs and past-year (1) suicidal thoughts and (2) attempted suicide have increased over time. <br><br>METHODS: Individual-level annual data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health for the past 12 years (2008-2019) were utilized. Year- and gender-specific multivariate binary logistic regression analyses were first conducted. Gender-stratified random-effects meta-regressions across study years were then conducted. <br><br>RESULTS: Heavy alcohol use/AUDs were associated with elevated odds of past-year suicidal thoughts and attempted suicide for both men and women; however, a linear increase in the risk relationships over time was not found. <br><br>CONCLUSION: Although a temporal increase in the risk relationships of interest was not found, until additional research in this area is conducted, heavy alcohol use/AUDs cannot be ruled out as being a driving force behind the increasing rate of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in the US.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0933-7954",
doi="10.1007/s00127-022-02225-x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-022-02225-x"
}