Journal of Studies on Alcohol articles from January 2002

Journal of Studies on Alcohol archives from January 2002

Editor's corner: a very good man retires.(Richard Deitrich)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... GOOD MEN AND WOMEN are hard to find. Even more rare is the opportunity to work with such kind, generous and effective people for almost two decades. The Journal of Studies on Alcohol and I, personally, are fortunate to have both known and...

Characteristics of mothers of children with fetal alcohol syndrome in the Western Cape Province of South Africa: a case control study *.
January 1, 2002... SINCE THE FIRST recognition and documentation of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) as a distinct birth defect (Jones and Smith, 1973), the search for unique maternal characteristics, risk factors and protective factors has been a goal of...

Psychiatric diagnoses among mission Indian children with and without a parental history of alcohol dependence *.
January 1, 2002... ALTHOUGH ALCOHOL consumption patterns differ among tribes, Native Americans as a whole have higher rates of alcohol-related morbidity and mortality compared with other ethnic groups in the United States (Indian Health Service, 1997). Lifetime...

Drinking-driving as a component of problem driving and problem behavior in young adults *.
January 1, 2002... INJURY, PRIMARILY from motor vehicle crashes, is the leading cause of death in adolescents and young adults (Bonnie et al., 1999). Although the proportion of alcohol-related crashes has recently declined, alcohol remains a contributing factor...

Familial and "on-the-street" risk factors associated with alcohol use among homeless and runaway adolescents *.
January 1, 2002... ALCOHOL USE MAY SERVE a number of functions for members of a vulnerable population such as homeless and runaway adolescents. Victimization research posits that youth may turn to alcohol as a coping strategy to help deal with childhood trauma or...

Gender differences in collegiate risk factors for heavy episodic drinking *.
January 1, 2002... HEAVY EPISODIC DRINKING (consuming five or more drinks for men and four or more drinks for women) is considered the largest public health problem on U.S. college campuses because it is the leading cause of preventable death among undergraduate...

The roles of victim and offender alcohol use in sexual assaults: results from the National Violence against Women Survey.
January 1, 2002... ALCOHOL USE BY offenders and/or victims is present in approximately one third to two thirds of rape incidents (Abbey, 1991; Pernanen, 1991), and the risk of sexual assault may be greater when one or both persons involved are drinking. Past...

The effects of alcohol and provocation on aggressive behavior in men and women *.
January 1, 2002... IT IS NOW well established, by both correlational and experimental studies, that alcohol consumption facilitates aggressive behavior (reviewed in Bushman and Cooper, 1990; Chermack and Giancola, 1997; Ito et al., 1996). The majority of research...

Genetic risk for alcoholism relates to level of response to alcohol in Asian-American men and women *.
January 1, 2002... IN THE UNITED STATES, individuals of Asian heritage, as a whole, have lower rates of alcohol abuse and dependence than do members of other ethnic groups (Zhang and Snowden, 1999). Studies conducted in China and Japan provide evidence that...

Effects of gender and family history of alcohol dependence on a behavioral task of impulsivity in healthy subjects *.
January 1, 2002... INDIVIDUALS WHO MISUSE ALCOHOL or drugs persistently choose the short-term rewards of substances despite their long-term negative consequences. The reinforcing effects of substance use, such as euphoria and relief from withdrawal, occur within...

Conditioned taste aversion and alcohol drinking: strain and gender differences *.
January 1, 2002... A MAJOR ISSUE in alcohol research is the understanding of the etiological basis of the individual vulnerability to alcohol use and misuse (Altman et al., 1996). Findings from epidemiological (Cloninger, 1987) and animal (Crabbe and Phillips,...

Effects of tiagabine and diazepam on operant ethanol self-administration in the rat *.
January 1, 2002... MALADAPTIVE CHANGES in reward systems are thought to play a crucial role in the shift from occasional controlled or stable drug use to the loss of behavioral control and drug-seeking that are characteristic of dependence. The positive...

Effects of self-administered alcohol or sucrose preloads on subsequent consumption in the Rat *.
January 1, 2002... THE EFFECT OF THE FIRST DRINK on subsequent consumption during that drinking occasion has been of interest to alcohol researchers for many years. It has been a common assumption that, for individuals with alcohol drinking control problems, the...

Decomposing the Relationships between Pretreatment Social Network Characteristics and Alcohol Treatment Outcome *.
January 1, 2002... TWO DECADES AGO, investigators sought to disentangle the conceptual ambiguity of social support in alcohol treatment research (Longabaugh and Beattie, 1985, 1986). These researchers made a number of distinctions they felt were important...

Relapse and Recovery in Addictions.
January 1, 2002... By Frank M. Tims, Carl G. Leukefeld and Jerome J. Platt (Eds.). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001, 420 + xii pages, $45.00 (cloth). It is axiomatic among clinicians and researchers in the substance misuse field that addictive...

International Handbook of Alcohol Dependence and Problems.
January 1, 2002... By Nick Heather, Timothy J. Peters and Tim Stockwell (Eds.). New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2001, 892 + xvii pages, $185.00 (cloth). This extremely comprehensive, edited book attempts to cover all aspects of alcohol dependence and alcohol...