Journal of Studies on Alcohol articles from January 2003

Journal of Studies on Alcohol archives from January 2003

DSM-IV alcohol and substance abuse and dependence in homeless youth *.
January 1, 2003... ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS who are homeless make up a diverse population and are, on average, at extremely high risk for many traumatic physical and mental health problems. Homeless youth consistently report rates of substance use in excess...

Patterns of alcohol use among Australian secondary students: results of a 1999 prevalence study and comparisons with earlier years *.
January 1, 2003... GIVEN THE COMMONALITIES in their cultural histories, it is hardly surprising that broad similarities in usage of the dominant substances, alcohol and tobacco, have been found in western industrialized countries, particularly the...

Age of first intoxication, heavy drinking, driving after drinking and risk of unintentional injury among U.S. college students.
January 1, 2003... EACH YEAR, more than 2 million college students aged 18-24 drive after drinking; more than 3 million ride in motor vehicles with drinking drivers; over one half million are injured because of drinking; and 1,400 die from alcohol-related...

Alcohol involvement and developmental task completion during young adulthood *.
January 1, 2003... YOUNG ADULTHOOD is a time of changing alcohol involvement and completing developmental tasks. Alcohol use increases from adolescence to early young adulthood (Chen and Kandel, 1995; Tubman et al., 1990) and the prevalence of alcohol use...

College attendance and risk-related driving behavior in a national sample of young adults *.
January 1, 2003... ALCOHOL-RELATED traffic injury and death rates continue to be higher among young adults than other age groups in the U.S. (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration [NHTSA], 2001). In the 21-24 age group, 41% of drivers who died in traffic...

Considerations for more effective social norms based alcohol education on campus: an analysis of different theoretical conceptualizations in predicting drinking among fraternity men *.
January 1, 2003... THE HIGH PREVALENCE of alcohol misuse among college students has been well documented (Wechsler et al., 1999, 1994), as have the associated increased risk for injury or death, (Leino et al., 1998; Wechsler, et al., 1996), negative behavior...

Rethinking positive and negative aspects of alcohol use: suggestions from a comparison of alcohol expectancies and decisional balance *.
January 1, 2003... THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN alcohol expectancies and alcohol use and problems has been demonstrated in a number of studies (Goldman et al., 1991; Jones et al., 2001; Leigh, 1989a; Leigh and Stacy, 1991). Expectancies have been incorporated into...

The average ethanol content of beer in the U.S. and individual states: estimates for use in aggregate consumption statistics *.
January 1, 2003... THE ETHANOL CONTENT of the wide variety of beers sold in the U.S. plays a central role in many decisions and calculations by researchers studying alcohol-related behaviors and consequences, and may also influence consumer choices. Those...

Distribution and dose response of laboratory markers to alcohol consumption in a general population: results of the Study of Health in Pomerania (SHIP) *.
January 1, 2003... CARBOHYDRATE-DEFICIENT TRANSFERRIN (AXIS %CDTri-TIA; CDT), gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT) and erythrocyte mean corpuscular volume (MCV) have been widely used as biochemical markers for detecting increased alcohol consumption. However, most...

Comparative and joint prediction of DUI recidivism from alcohol ignition interlock and driver records *.
January 1, 2003... THERE HAVE BEEN many attempts to find advance indicators of who will drive when impaired by alcohol. The most well-established predictor is prior driving under the influence (DUI) arrests. Also, people who injure others or who have been injured...

The effects of alcohol on driving-related sensorimotor performance across four times of day *.
January 1, 2003... MANY FACTORS, including age, sex, personality, driving experience, alcohol tolerance and general metabolism, influence the relationship between alcohol and driving-related performance (Adan, 1994; Jaccard and Turrisi, 1987; Jonah, 1997;...

The influence of Hispanic ethnicity on long-term outcome in three alcohol-treatment modalities *.
January 1, 2003... HISPANICS are the most rapidly growing ethnic minority group in the United States, and there is reason to anticipate an increasing demand for treatment of alcohol problems among Hispanic men. Between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s, for example,...

Effects of self-administered ethanol or water preloads on appetitive and consummatory behavior in the alcohol-preferring (P) rat.
January 1, 2003... IN A PRIOR STUDY, we examined the effects of ethanol and sucrose preloads on subsequent ethanol or sucrose consumption in a heterogeneous outbred rat strain (Long-Evans) (Samson et al., 2002). That study was based on the assumption that the...

The influence of alcohol on the activation of outcome expectancies: the role of evaluative expectancy activation in drinking behavior *.
January 1, 2003... PSYCHOLOGICAL MODELS OF ALCOHOL USE have been strongly influenced by research on alcohol outcome expectancies (see Goldman et al., 1999; Maisto et al., 1999; Sayette, 1999, for reviews). Led by research on the balanced placebo design (Marlatt...

Alcohol craving predicts drinking during treatment: an analysis of three assessment instruments *.
January 1, 2003... THE ROLE THAT CRAVING (or urge to drink) plays in promoting drinking is not well understood. Baker and colleagues (1987) state that "urges might be viewed as the principal phenomenological manifestation of addiction." The Diagnostic and...

An item response analysis of the alcohol dependence scale in treatment-seeking alcoholics *.
January 1, 2003... THE CONCEPT OF THE alcohol dependence syndrome as originally outlined by Edwards and Gross (1976) has generated a substantial body of research and informed diagnostic classification systems for alcohol dependence, such as the Diagnostic and...

Factors associated with partner violence among female alcoholic patients and their male partners *.
January 1, 2003... PARTNER VIOLENCE IN intimate heterosexual partner relationships of female alcoholic patients has been identified as a major problem. The high rate of partner violence against female alcoholic patients is believed to interfere significantly with...