Familial risk for alcoholism and hangover symptoms

Span, Sherry A.; Earleywine, Mitchell

doi:10.1016/s0306-4603(98)00002-1

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“…Notably, results from some laboratory challenge investigations contradict one derivative prediction-that familial alcoholism risk would be associated with decreased hangover sensitivity. Available evidence indicates either null fi ndings (Howland et al, 2008a) or enhanced hangover sensitivity among offspring of alcoholics (McCaul et al, 1991;Span and Earleywine, 1999).…”

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Low Sensitivity to Alcohol: Relations With Hangover Occurrence and Susceptibility in an Ecological Momentary Assessment Investigation

Piasecki

Alley

Slutske

et al. 2012

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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ABSTRACT.Objective: The current investigation tested whether low sensitivity to alcohol, as measured by the Self-Rating of the Effects of Alcohol (SRE) form, is associated with hangover occurrence or resistance, two potentially important predictors of later problematic drinking outcomes. Method: Drinkers who reported using alcohol at least four times in the past month (N = 402) completed the SRE at baseline and used ecological momentary assessment methods with an electronic diary to record drinking behaviors and related experiences over 21 days. Each morning, the diary assessed prior-night drinking behaviors and the presence of current hangover. Results: After adjustments for sex, body weight, age, and smoking status, higher SRE scores (indicating lower alcohol sensitivity) predicted hangover occurrence on postdrinking mornings (odds ratio [OR] = 1.24 per interquartile range [IQR], p = .003). However, when the number of drinks consumed in the drinking episode was covaried, SRE scores were negatively associated with hangover (OR = 0.67 per IQR, p <.001). An interaction between SRE scores and the number of drinks consumed indicated that low-sensitivity drinkers tend to be differentially resistant to hangover at a given number of drinks. Higher SRE scores were associated with consuming more drinks on average (generalized estimating equations coeffi cient = 2.20 per IQR, p <.001). Conclusions: Individuals lower in alcohol sensitivity appear to be more resistant to hangovers per unit of alcohol. However, they are also more likely to engage in excessive drinking, and this may account for their increased odds of experiencing hangover during an arbitrary monitoring period. Heavy consumption, hangover resistance, and hangover frequency may each be manifestations of low sensitivity to alcohol, an established risk factor for alcohol use disorder. (J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs, 73, 925-932, 2012) Received: May 22, 2012. Revision: July 23, 2012. This research was supported by National Institutes of Health Grants P50AA011998 (to Andrew C. Heath), K05AA017688 (to Andrew C. Heath), and K05AA017242 (to Kenneth J. Sher). Saul Shiffman is a cofounder of invivodata, inc., which provides electronic diary services for research and was responsible for the software used in this study.*Correspondence may be sent to Thomas M. Piasecki at the Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, 210 McAlester Hall, Columbia, MO 65211, or via email at: piaseckit@missouri.edu. H ANGOVER IS ONE OF THE MOST COMMON negative consequences of heavy drinking (Prat et al., 2009).Emerging evidence suggests that hangover is associated with numerous known risk factors for alcohol use disorder (AUD; for a review, see Piasecki et al., 2010).Two prospective investigations have examined how hangover measures relate to drinking outcomes. Piasecki et al. (2005) examined survey data from a familial high-risk study of college undergraduates followed into young adulthood. A measure of hangover frequency during the freshman year of college predicted AUD di...

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Low Sensitivity to Alcohol: Relations With Hangover Occurrence and Susceptibility in an Ecological Momentary Assessment Investigation

Piasecki

Alley

Slutske

et al. 2012

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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“…Hangover may also have prognostic significance. Recent research has found relations between hangover frequency and individual difference variables known to modify risk for the development of alcohol use disorders (McCaul et al, 1991;Newlin and Pretorious, 1990;Earleywine, 1993a;Span and Earleywine, 1999;Wall et al, 2000).…”

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Development and Initial Validation of the Hangover Symptoms Scale: Prevalence and Correlates of Hangover Symptoms in College Students

Slutske

Piasecki

Hunt-Carter

2003

Alcoholism Clin & Exp Res

128

153

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Background: Despite its ubiquity, hangover has received remarkably little systematic attention in alcohol research. This may be due in part to the lack of a standard measure of hangover symptoms that cleanly taps the physiologic and subjective effects commonly experienced the morning after drinking. In the present study, we developed and evaluated a new scale, the Hangover Symptoms Scale (HSS), to potentially fill this void.Methods: Participants were 1230 currently drinking college students (62% women, 91% Caucasian). They were administered a self-report inventory in which they reported the frequency of occurrence of 13 different hangover symptoms during the past 12 months. Participants also reported their history of alcohol involvement, alcohol-related problems, and family history of alcohol-related problems.Results: On average, participants experienced 5 out of 13 different hangover symptoms in the past year; the three most common symptoms were feeling extremely thirsty/dehydrated, feeling more tired than usual, and headache. Higher scores on the HSS were significantly positively associated with the frequency of drinking and getting drunk and the typical quantity of alcohol consumed when drinking, a personal history of alcohol-related problems, and a family history of alcohol-related problems. After controlling for sex differences in alcohol involvement, women had higher scores on the HSS than men.Conclusions: The HSS appears to capture a reasonably valid set of adjectives describing common hangover effects. It is hoped that the availability of a brief, valid hangover assessment such as the HSS will encourage further study of hangover's frequency, correlates, and consequences. Future research is needed to explore the performance of a re-worded HSS in laboratory settings, which may help bridge the gap between laboratory and survey investigations of hangover.

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“…Hangover and withdrawal have occasionally been examined as interdependent (e.g. Span & Earleywine 1999) and certain similarities between the two can be identified (e.g. Swift & Davidson 1998: 57); however, the two are not the same (Penning et al 2010), and a hangover is not necessarily connected with alcohol addiction (Harburg et al 1981;Wiese et al 2000).…”

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Hangover

Habeck¹

2015

FEJF

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Abstract:Even though hangover is a widespread phenomenon in many societies, it has received very scant systematic attention in social sciences. This article is based on publications from different disciplines (medicine, cultural history, social anthropology, sociology, etc.), my own observations, and interviews with fellow social anthropologists. After a general outline of the phenomenon, I will focus on some psychological aspects of hangover: guilt and vulnerability, but also the idea of complicity. These seem to combine in different ways not only in the selfperception of hung-over individuals: they also inform social perceptions of the consequences of excessive alcohol intake. They may be related to specific practices and patterns of drinking (as exemplified by observations from Siberia and the Far North of Russia), though large-scale comparisons are methodologically and ethically problematic. Examining the interrelation of hangover, responsibility, and transgression, the article concludes that the social perception of hangover involves different modes of human non-perfection.Keywords: alcohol hangover, complicity, guilt, veisalgia, vulnerability Notwithstanding countless books and articles on alcohol consumption (in Russia and elsewhere), hangover has remained a very enigmatic topic. This article, initially prepared for the Tartu 2013 workshop on the particularities of alcohol consumption in the Far North of Russia, emerged from my interest in the rites and practices of excessive drinking, the idea of transgression, and the question of how people describe, and deal with, the 'day after'. If practices of drinking bear certain cultural specifics 1 , can we suppose that experiences of hangover do so, too?While not claiming to give a definite answer, in this article I shall try to lay some groundwork for a cross-cultural study of hangover (pohmel'e in Russian 2 ). With the aim to give a first appraisal of how hangover is defined and explained, the first part of the article draws mainly on medical literature. Later, the focus will be on those aspects that fall into the psychological rather than physiological domain: here I rely on interviews that I conducted with eight fellow social anthropologists and one medical expert in 2013 and 2014, as well as on my own observations.

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Familial risk for alcoholism and hangover symptoms

Cited by 36 publications

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Low Sensitivity to Alcohol: Relations With Hangover Occurrence and Susceptibility in an Ecological Momentary Assessment Investigation

Low Sensitivity to Alcohol: Relations With Hangover Occurrence and Susceptibility in an Ecological Momentary Assessment Investigation

Development and Initial Validation of the Hangover Symptoms Scale: Prevalence and Correlates of Hangover Symptoms in College Students

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