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Alcohol Consumption in Offshore Oil Rig Workers
Author(s) -
Aiken G. J. M.,
McCance C.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
british journal of addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0952-0481
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1982.tb02460.x
Subject(s) - submarine pipeline , alcohol consumption , alcohol , sample (material) , consumption (sociology) , environmental health , environmental science , medicine , engineering , geotechnical engineering , sociology , chemistry , social science , biochemistry , chromatography
Summary The opportunity was taken in March 1981, to obtain self‐reports from a sample of men working in the North Sea Oil Industry, of the amount of alcohol consumed during the week preceding their period offshore. It was very heavy; approximately 30per cent of 213 men had drunk amounts above the safe limits suggested by the Royal College of Psychiatrists [1]. The findings are compared with data obtained by similar methods in other groups of men by other investigators, and the results discussed.