Intoxication with bourbon versus vodka: effects on hangover, sleep, and next-day neurocognitive performance in young adults.

Background: This study assessed the effects of heavy drinking with high or low congener beverages on next-day neurocognitive performance, and the extent to which these effects were mediated by alcohol-related sleep disturbance or alcoholic beverage congeners, and correlated with the intensity of hangover.

Methods: Healthy heavy drinkers age 21 to 33 (n = 95) participated in 2 drinking nights after an acclimatization night. They drank to a mean of 0.

Cigarette smoking among adolescent psychiatric inpatients: prevalence and correlates.

The aim of this study was to ascertain the rate of smoking among adolescent (13-17 years old) psychiatric inpatients and to examine factors related to smoking status in this population. The medical records of all adolescents admitted to a private psychiatric hospital during a 1-year period were reviewed. The rate of current smoking was 59.