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Hangover frequency and risk for alcohol use disorders: evidence from a longitudinal high-risk study.

Piasecki TM, Sher KJ, Slutske WS, Jackson KM

Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia and Midwest Alcholism Research Center, Columbia, MO 65211, US. piaseckit@missouri.edu

Data from a prospective high-risk study (N=489; 51% with a family history of alcoholism) were used to test whether family history is associated with greater hangover proneness and whether hangover is a risk factor for alcohol use disorders. Hangover was more frequent in family-history-positive participants during the college years. Persons with an alcohol diagnosis showed excess hangover before earning a diagnosis. Year 1 hangover predicted alcohol use disorders at Years 7 and 11, even when family history, sex, Year 1 diagnoses, and Year 1 drinking were statistically controlled. Several nonhangover drinking symptoms failed to predict later diagnoses. Taken together, the findings suggest a need for further research and theory on the role of hangover in the etiology of drinking problems.

Published 4 May 2005 in J Abnorm Psychol, 114(2): 223-34.
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