Healio (3/3, Gramigna) reports researchers found that “alcohol withdrawal rates have increased among hospitalized patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.” The findings were published in a research letter in JAMA Network Open.

MedPage Today (3/3, Grant) reports the researchers found that “compared with 2019, rates of alcohol withdrawal increased by nearly 34% during March-September 2020.” In addition, “the rate of alcohol withdrawal was consistently higher in 2020 compared with both 2019 and the average of 2018 and 2019, although the difference was larger in the period after the stay-at-home order.”

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— “COVID-19 pandemic linked to increase in alcohol withdrawal rates for hospitalized patients “Joe Gramigna, Healio , March 3, 2021

HealthDay (3/3, Norton) reports, “College students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder” (AD/HD) appear to “have a harder time making it to graduation than their peers do,” investigators concluded. In the study, “researchers found that of 400 students they followed, those with” AD/HD “had a lower grade-point average (GPA) – about half a grade lower – than students without the disorder.” What’s more, “students with” AD/HD “were less likely to make it through four years,” the study revealed. The findings were published online in the Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology.

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— “College Students With ADHD Have Lower Grades, Higher Dropout Rates “Amy Norton, HealthDay, March 3, 2021

HealthDay (3/3, Preidt) reports researchers examined data on media use and binge-eating in children and concluded that “each additional hour that children spent on social media was associated with a 62% higher risk of binge-eating disorder one year later, and each extra hour spent watching or streaming television or movies was linked with a 39% higher risk of binge-eating disorder one year later.” The findings were published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders.

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— “Social Media, Binge Eating Often Go Together for Kids “Robert Preidt, HealthDay, March 3, 2021

Healio (3/3, Downey) reports researchers found in a meta-analysis that “children and adolescents who bully their peers have a higher risk for drug, alcohol and tobacco use later in life.” The review study was published in Pediatrics.

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— “Children And Adolescents Who Bully Peers Have Higher Risk For Substance Use Later In Life, Review Study Indicates “Ken Downey Jr., Healio, March 3, 2021

Healio (3/2, Michael) reports, “Increased incarceration rates in counties across the U.S. were linked to increased risk for mortality from infectious diseases, chronic lower respiratory disease, substance abuse, suicide and multiple other causes,” researchers concluded after conducting “a retrospective, longitudinal study using data on U.S. county-level incarceration from 1987 to 2017 from the Vera Institute of Justice, and data on cause-specific mortality in people aged younger than 75 years from 1988 to 2018 collected from the U.S. National Vital Statistics System.” The findings were published online Feb. 23 in The Lancet Public Health.

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— “Incarceration rates linked to elevated risk for premature death “Erin Michael, Healio, March 2, 2021