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The purposes of the study were: a) to examine whether risk for suicide and risk for violence were positively or negatively correlated; and b) to investigate potential predictors/mediators of suicide risk alone, violence risk alone, and risk for both suicide and violence. Suicide risk and violence risk were considered outcome variables. The predictor/mediator variables were eight ego defense mechanisms and 13 dysfunctional personality styles (both have been linked to aggressive risk). Seventy-four male alcoholics were administered questionnaire measures of suicide risk and violence risk, defenses, and disordered personality functioning. Results indicated that suicide and violence risk were significantly positively correlated. Three sets of predictor/mediator variables were identified: those predicting violence risk alone, those predicting suicide risk alone, and those predicting combined aggressive risk (risk for both suicide and violence). Connections obtained between predictor/mediator variables and outcome variables were explained in the context of existent clinical theory.

Through the Nestle Coordination Center for Nutrition, Nestle set up a special Commission to monitor whether the company was following a marketing code for infant formula established by the World Health Organization. The formation of this Commission was a high‐risk innovative move on Nestle's part. The result has been that this Commission was instrumental in settling the controversy surrounding Nestle's marketing of the formula in Third World countries.