Pervasive Heavy Alcohol Use and Correlates of Increasing Levels of Binge Drinking among Men Who Have Sex with Men, San Francisco, 2011

Santos, Glenn-Milo; Jin, Hongkui; Raymond, H. Fisher

doi:10.1007/s11524-015-9958-z

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“…The pacing alcohol consumption experiment (PACE) study was conducted in the heart of San Francisco’s gay neighborhood, the Castro, which has 13 gay bars located within a 2-block radius. Overall, an estimated 2.7 million alcoholic drinks are consumed per month by MSM in San Francisco with an average consumption of 40 alcoholic drinks per month per person [ 8 ].…”

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Impact of a Structural Intervention to Address Alcohol Use Among Gay Bar Patrons in San Francisco: The PACE Study

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We evaluated the impact on alcohol intake and blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of a multi-level structural intervention to increase the availability of free water, coupled with messaging on pacing alcohol intake and normative feedback of blood alcohol concentration in a convenience sample of gay bars in San Francisco. Participants (n = 1,293) were recruited among exiting patrons of four gay bars (two intervention bars and two control bars). Participants were surveyed on alcohol intake and BAC was measured by breathalyzer. Prior to the intervention there were no significant differences in baseline alcohol measures between intervention and control bars. Post-intervention there were significant differences on objective and subjective measures of alcohol consumption: 30% of intervention bar participants had BAC% levels over the legal driving limit (0.08%) compared to 43% of control bar participants, p < 0.0001 and 78% of intervention bar participants were above the AUDIT-C cut-off for hazardous drinking compared to 87% in control bars, p < 0.001.

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Impact of a Structural Intervention to Address Alcohol Use Among Gay Bar Patrons in San Francisco: The PACE Study

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“…Responses were analyzed as continuous variables of the total score and as a binary whether or not participants presented symptoms of clinical depression (defined as scoring 8 or higher on the scale; Carpenter, Fowler, Maxwell, & Andersen, 2010 ). Poly-drug use and binge drinking behavior (i.e., having more than six drinks on one occasion) were measured using behavioral self-reports in response to questions asking about past-year binge-drinking frequency ( Peacock, Andrinopoulos, & Hembling, 2015 ; Rowe, Liou, Vittinghoff, Coffin, & Santos, 2016 ; Santos, Jin, & Raymond, 2015 ) and use of various club drugs, injection drugs, inhalants, and hallucinogens. For analysis, binge drinking was restricted to at least once a month, and poly-drug use was coded as a binary of using at least three of the drugs listed ( Daskalopoulou et al, 2014 ; Yu, Wall, Chiasson, & Hirshfield, 2015 ).…”

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Dyadic Reporting of Intimate Partner Violence Among Male Couples in Three U.S. Cities

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Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a prevalent and pressing public health concern that affects people of all gender and sexual identities. Though studies have identified that male couples may experience IPV at rates as high as or higher than women in heterosexual partnerships, the body of literature addressing this population is still nascent. This study recruited 160 male–male couples in Atlanta, Boston, and Chicago to independently complete individual surveys measuring demographic information, partner violence experience and perpetration, and individual and relationship characteristics that may shape the experience of violence. Forty-six percent of respondents reported experiencing IPV in the past year. Internalized homophobia significantly increased the risk for reporting experiencing, perpetrating, or both for any type of IPV. This study is the first to independently gather data on IPV from both members of male dyads and indicates an association between internalized homophobia and risk for IPV among male couples. The results highlight the unique experiences of IPV in male–male couples and call for further research and programmatic attention to address the exorbitant levels of IPV experienced within some of these partnerships.

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“…Consumption of five standard drinks (70 grams of pure alcohol) during that period of time can produce intoxication (63). Increases in binge drinking days are likely to be associated with corresponding increases in other risks (58). In addition to the obvious immediate effects of consuming a large amount of alcohol at a single sitting, there is evidence to suggest that more adverse events are associated with 2 or more days of binge (heavy) drinking a week than with more regular consumption of smaller amounts of alcohol (64).…”

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Identifying the Intersection of Alcohol, Adherence and Sex in HIV Positive Men on ART Treatment in India Using an Adapted Timeline Followback Procedure

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Objective(s) People Living with HIV (PLHIV) on anti-retroviral treatment (ART) who drink are less adherent and more likely to engage in unprotected sex. Using an adapted Timeline Follow-Back (A-TLFB) procedure, this paper examines the day by day interface of alcohol, medication adherence and sex to provide a fine grained understanding of how multiple behavioral risks coincide in time and space, explores concordance/discordance of measures with survey data and identifies potential recall bias. Methods Data are drawn from a survey of behavior, knowledge and attitudes, and a 30 day TLFB assessment of multiple risk behaviors adapted for the Indian PLHIV context, administered to 940 alcohol-consuming, HIV positive men on ART at the baseline evaluation stage of a multilevel, multi-centric intervention study Results On days participants drank they were significantly more likely to be medication non-adherent and to have unprotected sex. In the first day after their alcohol consuming day, the pattern of nonadherence persisted. Binge and regular drinking days were associated with nonadherence but only binge drinking co-occurred with unprotected sex. Asking about specific “drinking days” improved recall for drinking days and number of drinks consumed. Recall declined for drinking days and nonadherence from the first week to subsequent weeks but varied randomly for sex risk. There was high concordance and low discordance between adapted TLFB drinking and nonadherence but these results were reversed for unprotected sex. Conclusions Moving beyond simple drinking-adherence correlational analysis, the adapted TLFB offers improved recall probes and provides researchers and interventionists with the opportunity to identify types of risky days and tailor behavioral modification to reduce alcohol consumption, nonadherence and risky sex on those days.

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Pervasive Heavy Alcohol Use and Correlates of Increasing Levels of Binge Drinking among Men Who Have Sex with Men, San Francisco, 2011

Cited by 20 publications

References 44 publications

Impact of a Structural Intervention to Address Alcohol Use Among Gay Bar Patrons in San Francisco: The PACE Study

Impact of a Structural Intervention to Address Alcohol Use Among Gay Bar Patrons in San Francisco: The PACE Study

Dyadic Reporting of Intimate Partner Violence Among Male Couples in Three U.S. Cities

Identifying the Intersection of Alcohol, Adherence and Sex in HIV Positive Men on ART Treatment in India Using an Adapted Timeline Followback Procedure

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