Posted on 12/12/2011 8:18:32 AM PST by Enosh
MONDAY, Dec. 12 (HealthDay News) — Drinking too much alcohol can lead to unsafe sex, a new study confirms.
Unsafe sex is the most common cause of HIV infection and finding ways to prevent unsafe sex is a major goal of public health efforts to prevent HIV/AIDS.
Alcohol use has long been associated with HIV incidence. However, it hasn’t been clear whether unsafe sex associated with alcohol use actually led to HIV infection, or whether certain personality traits, such as sensation-seeking or risky behavior, led to both alcohol use and unsafe sex.
In this study, researchers led by Jurgen Rehm, director of social and epidemiological research at theCentre for Addiction and Mental Health in Ontario, Canada, conducted 12 experiments that tested this cause-and-effect relationship. They concluded that alcohol affects decision-making and that this effect increases with the amount of alcohol consumed.
The more alcohol the participants drank, the more willing they were to engage in unsafe sex, the study authors said. For each 0.1 milligrams per milliliter increase in blood alcohol level, there was a 5 percent increase in a participant’s likelihood of having unsafe sex.
The study is published in the January issue of the journal Addiction.
“Drinking has a causal effect on the likelihood to engage in unsafe sex, and thus should be included as a major factor in preventive efforts for HIV,” Rehm commented in a journal news release. “This result also helps explain why people at risk often show this behavior despite better knowledge: Alcohol is influencing their decision processes.”
More information
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has more about practicing safer sex atwomenshealth.gov.
>>“The commercial says every kiss begins with Kay, but I’m willing to bet a good number of kisses begin with a couple of bottles of Miller Lite”.
Not quite the way I’ve heard it before.
good to know tax dollars helped someone study this.
Maybe but the girls all get prettier at closing time.
They always looked better through my "beer goggles".
With kudos to Y&T.....
"Frankenstein's Daughter was all curled up on me, so I said, 'I gotta get home, seems it's an emergency'."
"And she said, 'But you ARE home'......."
/johnny
"I volun... *hiccup ...teered tuh be ....uh ...umm *hiccup, ya know, *hiccup ... the test guy... *hiccup..."
I am so glad that Canada has cured all diseases and has money left over to ‘study’ the obvious....guess that’s why they send patients to the US at the end of fiscal year for treatment and care
LOL!
/johnny
"It's 2AM, the fear is gone..."
Lol! They needed a *study* for this?
Maybe this research was funded by stimulus money....Lol...
Dorthy Parker zing that is always great....
I could have done this study for a lot less money then the government spent. Heck I would have done the study and found the same results for about 25 percent of the money the government spent. i could do it for free, but hey why not make something on such stupid studies.
Ya think?
Is this satire? There’s no way they had to do a funded study for this.
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