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Alcohol Hangover Effects on Human Health
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Alcohol Hangover Effects on Human Health

A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Factors and Global Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 6049

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Sally Adams

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Addiction and Mental Health Group, Department of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK
Interests: alcohol; hangover; cognition; behaviour; psychopharmacology

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Worldwide, problematic alcohol use is responsible for 3 million deaths per year and brings significant social and economic losses to individuals and society. Hangover is the most commonly reported negative consequence of alcohol use with significant health and economic implications.

We would like to invite you to contribute a paper to this upcoming Special Issue in the international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal Healthcare, managed by MDPI. The Special Issue will be themed “Alcohol Hangover Effects on Human Health” and will focus on the impact of alcohol hangover on physical and mental health. Alcohol hangover is defined as “the combination of negative mental and physical symptoms experienced after a single episode of alcohol consumption, starting when blood alcohol concentration (BAC) approaches zero” (Verster et al, 2020). Increasingly, alcohol hangover is recognised as a wide-reaching consequence of alcohol use with the potential to impact physiological and psychological mechanisms underlying everyday behaviours including driving, workplace absenteeism and productivity and interpersonal relationships. As a result, alcohol hangover is a growing field with research spanning many disciplines of health and has the potential to impact practice and policy surrounding alcohol use.

This special issue aims to bring together research across fields including psychology, public health and pharmacology. This issue will shed light on emerging experimental and theoretical work that can be used to guide public health policy and interventions targeted at reducing hazardous and harmful alcohol use. We look forward to receiving your contributions to this special issue addressing the impact of alcohol hangover on human health.

Dr. Sally Adams
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Alcohol
  • Heavy Alcohol Use
  • Alcohol Hangover
  • Next-Day Effects
  • Cognition
  • Behaviour
  • Mood
  • Physiological
  • Psychological
  • Public Health
  • Psychopharmacology

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Immune Responses after Heavy Alcohol Consumption: Cytokine Concentrations in Hangover-Sensitive and Hangover-Resistant Drinkers
by Aurora JAE van de Loo, S. Jorinde Raasveld, Anna Hogewoning, Raymond de Zeeuw, Else R Bosma, Noor H Bouwmeester, Melanie Lukkes, Karen Knipping, Marlou Mackus, Aletta D Kraneveld, Karel A Brookhuis, Johan Garssen, Andrew Scholey and Joris C Verster
Healthcare 2021, 9(4), 395; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9040395 - 1 Apr 2021
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This study investigated immunological changes during an alcohol hangover, and the possible difference between hangover-resistant and hangover-sensitive drinkers in terms of immune reactivity. Using a semi-naturalistic design, N = 36 healthy social drinkers (18 to 30 years old) provided saliva samples on a [...] Read more.
This study investigated immunological changes during an alcohol hangover, and the possible difference between hangover-resistant and hangover-sensitive drinkers in terms of immune reactivity. Using a semi-naturalistic design, N = 36 healthy social drinkers (18 to 30 years old) provided saliva samples on a control day (after drinking no alcohol) and on a post-alcohol day. Hangover severity was rated directly after saliva collection. Cytokine concentrations, interleukin (IL)-1β, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10 and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α, and hangover severity were compared between both test days and between hangover-sensitive and -resistant drinkers. Data from N = 35 drinkers (17 hangover-sensitive and 18 hangover-resistant) were included in the statistical analyses. Relative to the control day, there were significant increases in saliva IL-6 and IL-10 concentrations on the post-alcohol day. No significant differences in cytokine concentrations were found between hangover-sensitive and hangover-resistant drinkers, nor did any change in cytokine concentration correlate significantly with hangover severity. In line with previous controlled studies assessing cytokines in blood, the current naturalistic study using saliva samples also demonstrated that the immune system responds to high-level alcohol intake. However, further research is warranted, as, in contrast to previous findings in blood samples, changes in saliva cytokine concentrations did not differ significantly between hangover-sensitive and hangover-resistant drinkers, nor did they correlate significantly with hangover severity. Full article
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The Effects of Alcohol Hangover on Response Inhibition and Attentional Bias towards Alcohol-Related Stimuli
by Craig Gunn, Graeme Fairchild, Joris C. Verster and Sally Adams
Healthcare 2021, 9(4), 373; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9040373 - 28 Mar 2021
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Alcohol hangover is associated with the development of alcohol use disorders, yet few studies have examined the influence of hangover on cognitive processes that may contribute towards future alcohol consumption such as response inhibition and attentional bias towards alcohol-related stimuli. Therefore, the current [...] Read more.
Alcohol hangover is associated with the development of alcohol use disorders, yet few studies have examined the influence of hangover on cognitive processes that may contribute towards future alcohol consumption such as response inhibition and attentional bias towards alcohol-related stimuli. Therefore, the current study aimed to explore the effects of hangover on these processes. In total, 37 adult drinkers who reported regularly engaging in heavy episodic drinking and experiencing a hangover at least once in the previous month took part in this within-subjects, “naturalistic” crossover study. Participants completed Go/No-Go (assessing response inhibition) and Visual Dot Probe (attentional bias) tasks in a hangover condition (morning following alcohol consumption) and a no-hangover condition (no alcohol consumption for at least 24 h). Participants also completed measures of hangover severity, mood, and perceived mental effort. Results indicated impaired response inhibition during hangover compared to the no-hangover condition (p < 0.001, d = 0.89), but no difference in attentional bias scores between conditions. Participants reported expending greater mental effort to complete tasks (p < 0.001, d = 1.65), decreased alertness (p < 0.001, d = 3.19), and reduced feelings of tranquillity (p < 0.001, d = 1.49) in the hangover versus no-hangover condition. Together, these findings suggest that alcohol hangover is associated with impaired response inhibition and lower mood. However, problems with recording eye-tracking data on the Visual Dot Probe task used in the present study may limit the reliability of our attentional bias findings. Full article
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