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Title: Heavy Drinking, Alcohol Dependence, and Injuries at Work among Young Workers in the United States Labor Force
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1. Veazie, Mark A.
Smith, Gordon S.
Heavy Drinking, Alcohol Dependence, and Injuries at Work among Young Workers in the United States Labor Force
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 24,12 (December 2000): 1811-1819.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1530-0277.2000.tb01985.x/abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Research Society on Alcoholism and the International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism
Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Injuries; Job Hazards; Labor Force Participation

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Background: To determine whether heavily drinking and alcohol-dependent workers are at higher risk of occupational injury, we analyzed the nationally representative cohort of people enrolled in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth since 1979. Methods: This anlaysis was restricted to the 8569 respondents in the 1989 annual interview (age 24-32) who were employed during the 6 months before the interview. We studied occupational injuries (excluding sprains or strains) reported within 6 months of the interview in 1989 (cross-sectional analysis) and 1990 (prospective analysis). Results: Among current drinkers, significant two-fold increases in the odds of injury for one or more episodes of heavy drinking were reduced to an odds ratio (OR) of 1.2 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.7,2.1) in the cross-sectional analysis and an OR of 1.6 (CI 1.0, 2.8) in the prospective analysis after adjustment for confounding. No dose-response relationship with the frequency of heavy drinking was found. Alcohol-dpendent responsents were not at higher risk of injury in the cross-sectional (OR =1.1, CI 0.7, 1.8) or prospective (OR = 1.3, CI 0.8, 2.2) analysis after adjustment for confounding. Conclusions: For young U.S. workers, common occupational injuries (excluding sprains or strains) may not be strongly associated with alcohol dependence. Confounding by other risk factors may explain much of the association between being a heavy drinker and occupational injuries in the population.
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Veazie, Mark A. and Gordon S. Smith. "Heavy Drinking, Alcohol Dependence, and Injuries at Work among Young Workers in the United States Labor Force." Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 24,12 (December 2000): 1811-1819.