Addiction Medicine

Researchers from Indiana University describe findings in addiction medicine

Published in State and Local Health Law Weekly, December 18th, 2008

According to a study from the United States, "The authors used narrative data from court and police records of homicides in Russia to compare alcohol- and non-alcohol-related incidents on victim, offender, and event characteristics. Binary logistic regression models were estimated for neither participant drinking, offender drinking, victim drinking, and both drinking."

"Consistent differences were found between alcohol- and non-alcohol-related homicides across the models. Alcohol-related homicides were significantly more likely to occur overnight, to occur on weekends, and to result from acute arguments and significantly less likely to occur between strangers, to be...

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Source: State and Local Health Law Weekly (2008-12-18)

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