Assignment 3: Introduction
Alcoholism within the military has been an ongoing problem for years, also leading to many domestic disturbances and other alcohol related crimes. The army has done a study by using “Cases include all active duty, male, enlisted Army spouse abusers identified in the Army’s Central Registry who had also completed an Army Health Risk Appraisal Survey (HRA) between 1991 and 1998 (N = 9534). Cases were matched on sex, rank, and marital status with 21,786 control subjects who had also completed an HRA.”(Bell, N. S., Harford, T., McCarroll, J. E., & Senier, L, 2004) Using the data gained from the study it was concluded that “ heavy drinkers (22 or more drinks per week) were 66% more likely to be spouse abusers than were abstainers (odds ratio 1.66; 95% confidence interval 1.40–1.96). In addition, self-reported moderate and heavy drinkers were three times as likely and light drinkers (1–7 drinks per week) were twice as likely as nondrinkers to be drinking during the time of the abuse event.” (Bell, N. S., Harford, T., McCarroll, J. E., & Senier, L, 2004) This is evident as a growing problem and can be seen with the culture of alcohol in the military as it is seen as normal, “Among Active Component service members, 34.0% reported at least one instance of binge drinking in the past 30 days and 9.8% reported heavy drinking,”(Meadows, S., Beckman, R., Engel, C., & Jeffery, D, 2022) Using data from these research and studies, allows for proper precautionary steps to be put into place for treatment and help that the active duty military personel need. Specifically looking into the alcoholism in the military where a study was done “In 2005, a total of 43.2% of ADMP reported past-month binge drinking, resulting in 29.7 episodes per person per year. In all, 67.1% of binge episodes were reported by personnel aged 17–25 years (46.7% of ADMP), and 25.1% of these episodes were reported by underage youth (aged 17–20 years). Heavy drinkers (19.8% of ADMP) were responsible for 71.5% of the binge-drinking episodes and had the highest number of annual per-capita episodes of binge drinking,”(Stahre, M. A., Brewer, R. D., Fonseca, V. P., & Naimi, T. S., 2009) thus showing how prevalent alcoholism is in the military which amounts to the first study talked about for the correlation of alcoholism in the military connected to spouse abuse/domestic disturbance. What remains unclear is the amount of people actually reporting because many of these studies are an anonymous, self-administered survey. So the investigation is to help get an accurate reading on what is the motivating factor between service members and alcohol to prevent more alcohol-related incidents.
Resources
Stahre, M. A., Brewer, R. D., Fonseca, V. P., & Naimi, T. S. (2009). Binge drinking among U.S. active-duty military personnel. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0749379708009690
Bell, N. S., Harford, T., McCarroll, J. E., & Senier, L. (2004). Drinking and spouse abuse among U.S. Army Soldiers. Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1351131/
Meadows, S., Beckman, R., Engel, C., & Jeffery, D. (2022). The Culture of Alcohol in the U.S. Military: Correlations With Problematic Drinking Behaviors and Negative Consequences of Alcohol Use. Sage Journals. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0095327X211069162#:~:text=Resultsfrommultivariatelogisticregression,ofalcoholandnegativesequelae.
Osborne, A. K., Wilson-Menzfeld, G., McGill, G., & Kiernan, M. D. (2022). Military service and alcohol use: A systematic narrative review. OUP Academic. https://academic.oup.com/occmed/article/72/5/313/6604127
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Teachman, J., Anderson, C., & Tedrow, L. (2015). Military Service and Alcohol Use in the United States. Western Washington University. https://cedar.wwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1013&context=sociology_facpubs
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