Journal of Studies on Alcohol articles from January 1998

Journal of Studies on Alcohol archives from January 1998

Hepatic and other medical disorders of alcoholism: from pathogenesis to treatment.
January 1, 1998... This comprehensive article by Charles Lieber is the beginning of what I hope might become a tradition for the Journal of Studies on Alcohol. This is the publication of the first lecture of what will be an annual series of Mark Keller Honorary...

Dietary influences on alcohol intake: a review.
January 1, 1998... In his first article on the value of alcohol as a nutrient, Curt Richter showed that the food intake by experimental animals decreased in relation to the calories they obtained by drinking alcohol (Richter, 1926). In this and later...

Alcohol consumption debut: predictors and consequences.
January 1, 1998... Most people consume alcohol, but the age at which alcohol is first imbibed varies. Several studies indicate that this point of time--often called the alcohol debut or onset--has an effect on the individual's subsequent development. Early debut...

The staff workplace and the quality and outcome of substance abuse treatment.
January 1, 1998... Rapid changes in the health care system have sparked growing concern about the quality of the staff work environment and its influence on staff morale and the quality of patient care. Specific characteristics of the health care workplace, such...

HAIS (Hanil alcohol insight scale): validation of an insight-evaluation instrument for practical use in alcoholism.
January 1, 1998... Drinking as a traditional token of friendship is entrenched among Korean people as in other Confucian cultures, and diverse problems with drinking can proceed, uninhibited and unnoticed, to alcoholism while the drinking destroys the drinker...

The Addiction Severity Index as a screen for trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder. (alcoholism)
January 1, 1998... In recent years, studies have documented a high rate of co-occurring posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in patients with substance use disorders (SUD). For example, FITSD has been estimated to occur in 59% of inner-city female drug users...

Alcohol use in the Greek system: follow the leader? (college fraternities and sororities)
January 1, 1998... Greek letter societies have existed on U.S. college campuses since the founding of the first university. These fraternities and sororities have continued to grow and flourish in our society to such an extent that it has been estimated that...

Sex-related alcohol expectancies as moderators of the relationship between alcohol use and risky sex in adolescents.
January 1, 1998... Despite over a decade of research and public awareness regarding the risk of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection posed by sexual intercourse, sexually active Americans continue to engage in high rates of behaviors that put them at...

Predictors of the prevalence of alcohol use and related problems among Francophones and Anglophones in the province of Ontario, Canada.
January 1, 1998... In Ontario research investigating the prevalence and patterns of alcohol behavior and associated risk factors among Francophones has yet to be conducted on a large scale (Franco-Echanges, 1991). The only published study examining this issue...

First-time admissions with alcohol-related medical problems: a 10-year follow-up of a national sample of alcoholic patients.
January 1, 1998... Alcohol abuse has been associated with diseases of almost every major organ system and has been implicated in one-fourth of all general hospital admissions (Mendelson et al., 1986; National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 1994)....

Family history of alcoholism and gender: their combined effects on DSM-IV alcohol dependence and major depression.
January 1, 1998... Comorbidity for alcohol dependence and depression--the increased risk of one of these disorders being manifested in the presence of the other--has been noted in clinical and epidemiological studies spanning several decades, as summarized in...

The dynamics of shifts in alcoholic beverage preference: effects of the legalization of beer in Iceland.
January 1, 1998... For the past two decades, alcohol research in many countries has been concerned with two major trends in alcohol consumption (Bruun et al., 1975; Makela et al., 1981; Smart, 1989). First, the fast increase in total alcohol consumption that...

Effects of repeated cocaine administration on alcohol consumption.
January 1, 1998... Determining why people desire alcohol is an important research area. The roles of genetic, environmental and nutritional factors in alcohol-drinking behavior have been debated. Biochemical, physiological and pharmacological studies have also...

Preventing Substance Abuse: Interventions That Work.
January 1, 1998... By Michael J. Stoil and Gary Hill. New York: Plenum Press, 1996, 200 + xiv pages, $39.50 (cloth), $23.95 (paper). The National Structured Evaluation (NSE) was a project mandated by the United States Congress in the 1988 Anti-Drug Abuse Act....

The Effectiveness of Innovative Approaches in the Treatment of Drug Abuse.
January 1, 1998... By Frank M. Tims, James A. Inciardi, Bennet W. Fletcher and Arthur MacNeil Horton, Jr. (Eds.). Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997, 268 + vii pages, $65.00 (cloth). The work reported in this volume comprises the results of the Applied...