Journal of Studies on Alcohol articles from January 1997

Journal of Studies on Alcohol archives from January 1997

Matching alcoholism treatments to client heterogeneity: Project MATCH posttreatment drinking outcomes.(Project Match Research Group)
January 1, 1997... After an extensive review of alcoholism outcome research, the Institute of Medicine (1990) concluded that it may no longer be appropriate to ask whether alcoholism treatment works or which treatment works best. Reflecting current views in the...

Sleep in detoxified alcoholics: impairment of most standard sleep parameters and increased risk for sleep apnea, but not myoclonias - a controlled study.
January 1, 1997... Dependence on alcohol and sleep disorders are both common and the two disorders are often seen in combination. It is not known if their combined presentation represents a causal or casual relationship. Sleep disorders may be an important factor...

The relationship of drinking and hangovers to workplace problems: an empirical study.
January 1, 1997... Studies of alcohol and work have long suggested that certain drinking patterns may cause problems in the workplace. In 1983, in Britain, for example, absenteeism and illness related to alcohol were estimated to have cost 641[pounds] million,...

Cloninger's tridimensional theory of personality and psychopathology: applications to substance use disorders.
January 1, 1997... ONE OF THE MOST influential personality theories propounded in recent years is Cloninger's "unified biosocial" model. Cloninger (1986) developed the theory to account for the differences in the susceptibility of individuals with particular...

Organization of psychological functions in alcoholics and nonalcoholics: a test of the compensatory hypothesis.
January 1, 1997... INVESTIGATORS throughout the Western world have reported cognitive deficits in posttreatment sober alcoholics that are similar to those found in other brain dysfunctional groups (Hunt and Nixon, 1993; Parsons et al., 1987). Similar research on...

Sex ratios of drinking patterns and problems among blacks and whites: results from a national survey.
January 1, 1997... Gender differences in drinking practices are a well accepted fact in North America and other Western societies. Stereotypes of masculine behavior are embodied in images of hard drinking that are often stigmatized for "respectable" women. Little...

Couple communication patterns of maritally aggressive and nonaggressive male alcoholics.
January 1, 1997... In the U.S. Population alcohol consumption and marital violence are linearly related (Kantor and Straus, 1987). Approximately one-half of clinical spouse batterers have significant alcohol problems (Tolman and Bennett, 1990), one-half to...

Sexual satisfaction and dysfunction in marriages of male alcoholics: comparison with nonalcoholic maritally conflicted couples and nonconflicted couples.
January 1, 1997... Male Alcoholics, when compared with nonalcoholic men, have a heightened prevalence of sexual dysfunctions, the most frequent of which are erection difficulties, lowered libido and retarded ejaculation (O'Farrell, 1990). Sexual dissatisfaction...

Drinking motives predict alcohol-related problems in college students.
January 1, 1997... The vast majority of college students drink alcohol, and over half can be classified as moderate or heavy drinkers (O'Hara, 1990; Wechsler and Isaac, 1992). Students who engage in heavy drinking, and in particular binge drinking, are seven to...

Assessing Alcohol Problems: A Guide for Clinicians and Researchers.
January 1, 1997... by John P. Allen and Megan Columbus (Eds.). NIAAA Treatment Handbook Series 4, NIH Publication No. 95-3745, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1995, 573 + x pages, free of charge (paper). This is the long awaited update of the volume by...

Alcohol and Homicide: A Deadly Combination of Two American Traditions.
January 1, 1997... by Robert Nash Parker with Linda-Anne Rebhun. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1995, 185 + xiii pages, $49.50 (cloth), $ 16.95 (paper). Although more than half of all homicides involve alcohol, theoretical "myopia" still...

False Fixes: The Cultural Politics of Drugs, Alcohol and Addictive Relations.
January 1, 1997... by David Forbes. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1994, 278 + xvii pages, $21.95 (cloth). Two familiar axioms of substance abuse prevention hold that (1) "substance abuse causes social ills (i.e., poverty, crime, violence,...