====Drinking==== The diet diaries collected in [[questionnaires:1982|1982]], [[questionnaires:1989|1989]], [[questionnaires:1999|1999]] and [[questionnaires:2009|2006-10]] gathered specific information on the quantities of alcohol consumed. In addition to the diet diaries, in [[questionnaires:1989|1989]], [[questionnaires:1999|1999]], [[questionnaires:2009|2006-10]] and [[questionnaires:2015|2014-16]], the number of measures of alcohol drunk in the last seven days were self-reported in terms of spirits, wine and beers. \\ \\

Variable	1989	1999	2006-10	2014
Have you drunk alcohol in the last year?		dralc99	dra09	DRA14x
In the last 7 days have you had any spirits or liqueurs?		drsp99	drs09	DRS14x
How many measures of spirits or liqueurs have you had in the last 7 days?	drspt89	drspt99	ndrs09	NDRS14x
In the last 7 days have you had any wine, sherry, martini or port?		drwn99	drw09	DRW14x
How many measures of wine, sherry, martini or port have you had in the last 7 days	drwin89	drwin99	ndrw09	NDRW14x
In the last 7 days have you had any beer, lager, cider, or stout?		drbe99	drb09	DRB14x
How many half pints of beer, lager, cider, or stout have you had in the last 7 days	drbee89	drbee99	ndrb09	NDRB14x

\\ \\ The **CAGE** {{mrepo:cage.pdf|questionnaire}}, a tool for detecting alcoholism, was also asked in the first three of these sweeps(( see Ewing JA; Detecting alcoholism. The CAGE questionnaire. {{https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6471323|JAMA. 1984 Oct 12;252(14):1905-7}} )), with the **Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test**(( ({{mrepo:audit.pdf|AUDIT: WHO}}) )), a ten-question screening tool to pick up the early signs of hazardous and harmful drinking and identify mild dependence, being used in the most recent collection. The **[[mentalhealthandwellbeing|Present State Examination]]** asked in [[questionnaires:1982|1982]] also contains a question about drinking.
---- === Obtaining the standard drinking variables === * You can obtain a list of the standard topic variables to use in an NSHD data sharing request by selecting the link at the end of this page.\\ \\ [[http://skylark.ucl.ac.uk/Sparrow/search/html/keyword/mrepo:topics:drinking | HTML version of the standard variables to view]] \\ \\