Journal of Studies on Alcohol articles from January 2004

Journal of Studies on Alcohol archives from January 2004

The impact of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on alcohol consumption and distress: reactions to a national trauma 300 miles from ground zero *.
January 1, 2004... SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, is another date that will live in infamy, to paraphrase President Franklin D. Roosevelt (referring to the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941). In the days following September 11, the terrorist attacks on the World...

Brain alcohol detectability in human subjects with and without a paternal history of alcoholism *.
January 1, 2004... IN VIVO MAGNETIC RESONANCE determination of brain alcohol levels in human and animal subjects has been investigated in a number of laboratories (Chiu et al., 1994; Fein and Meyerhoff, 2000; Hanstock et al., 1988, 1990; Hetherington et al.,...

Anticipated levels of alcohol-induced sedation and stimulation in relation to estimated blood alcohol concentration.
January 1, 2004... ALCOHOL'S EFFECTS on human behavior depend on a variety of factors including gender (e.g., Giancola and Zeichner, 1995), drinking habits (e.g., King et al., 2002) and dosage (e.g., Stewart et al., 1995). Moreover, alcohol effects have been...

Alcohol-induced performance impairment in heavy episodic and light social drinkers *.
January 1, 2004... IT IS WELL KNOWN that ethanol intoxication can impair performance in a variety of psychomotor and performance tasks. Alcohol has been shown to diminish performance on motor performance tests (Fogarty and Vogel-Sprott, 2002), eye movement...

Correlates of rape while intoxicated in a national sample of college women *.
January 1, 2004... A RECENT DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE study estimated that a woman has between a one in four and one in five chance of being raped during her college years (Fisher et al., 2000). Koss and colleagues (1987) assessed the amount and type of unwanted...

Hazardous drinking and relationship violence perpetration and victimization in women arrested for domestic violence *.
January 1, 2004... INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE (IPV) committed by men and women is an enormous problem in the United States. Although violence perpetrated by women is starting to get more attention, there is a paucity of empirical data available regarding the...

The effects of alcohol intoxication and gender on the social information processing of hostile provocations involving male and female provocateurs *.
January 1, 2004... ALCOHOL IS THE DRUG most strongly associated with interpersonal aggression and violence (Miczek et al., 1993). Numerous theories have speculated about the exact nature of this association, but much empirical evidence points to alcohol's...

Predictors of short-term course of drinking in untreated rural and urban at-risk drinkers: effects of gender, illegal drug use and psychiatric comorbidity *.
January 1, 2004... WE KNOW LITTLE ABOUT the predictors of the short-term course of problem drinking in untreated individuals. Problem drinking is generally conceptualized as drinking that puts an individual at risk for behavioral, medical or psychological...

Childhood physical and sexual abuse and subsequent alcohol and drug use disorders in two American-Indian tribes *.
January 1, 2004... CHILDHOOD PHYSICAL and sexual abuse and substance use disorders are known to co-occur for many people, although the precise nature of the relationship has yet to be established empirically. The effects of abuse suffered as a child on later...

Adolescent developmental antecedents of risky driving among young adults *.
January 1, 2004... ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS are at high risk of injury and death from motor vehicle accidents. Rates of death in motor vehicle crashes peak at age 16 and remain elevated through age 35. With the exception of the elderly, drivers ages 15-35 are...

Accessibility of alcohol expectancies from memory: impact of mood and motives in college student drinkers *.
January 1, 2004... ALCOHOL OUTCOME EXPECTANCIES (AOEs) are the cognitive, affective and behavioral outcomes individuals expect as a result of drinking. AOEs are conceptualized as learned associations between stimulus events and outcomes that one has either...

Adolescents' alcohol and drug use trajectories in the year following treatment *.
January 1, 2004... RESEARCH ON adolescent substance use disorder (SUD) treatment outcomes indicates that adolescents tend to show reductions in substance use severity and improvements in psychosocial functioning at 1-year follow-up (Williams et at., 2000)....

College student protective strategies and drinking consequences *.
January 1, 2004... EXCESSIVE STUDENT DRINKING is a concern on most college campuses because it sometimes leads to harmful consequences (Perkins, 2002; Wechsler, 2000). Faculty and staff working in postsecondary institutions are therefore eager to identify...

Drinking restraint, alcohol consumption and alcohol dependence among children of alcoholics *.
January 1, 2004... DRINKING RESTRAINT has been defined as a cognitive preoccupation with control over drinking (Ruderman and McKirnan, 1984). Restrained drinkers consciously set limits on their consumption, and this limit setting may initially produce successful...

The daily stress and coping process and alcohol use among college students *.
January 1, 2004... OF THE DIFFERENT MOTIVES underlying college students alcohol use, coping with stress is believed to be most closely linked with the development of problem drinking and the failure to "mature out" of heavy drinking following graduation (Baer,...

Acamprosate in alcohol dependence: a randomized controlled efficacy study in a standard clinical setting.
January 1, 2004... ALCOHOLISM AFFECTS almost 15% of American men and 8% of women (Grant, 1997). In Brazil, approximately 11% of the population can be considered alcohol dependent (Carlini et al., 2001). This is a high prevalence rate compared with many other...

Are substance use, abuse and dependence associated with study participation? Predictors of offspring nonparticipation in a twin-family study *.
January 1, 2004... EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES covering a range of outcome variables have found that sociodemographics, mental health status and substance use and abuse are associated with nonresponse. Nonresponse is simply the loss of eligible subjects because of...

Searching for treatment outcome measures for use across trials *.
January 1, 2004... THE GENERAL GOAL of alcoholism treatment is to reduce or eliminate drinking and drinking-related problems. A considerable variety of variables have been used to assess these outcomes. Primarily, the impact of treatment has been assessed on...

Correspondence.(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2004... Dear Editor: In the article "Aboriginal Social Organization, Contemporary Experience and American Indian Adolescent Alcohol Use" by Spicer et al., which appeared in the July 2003 issue of this Journal (pages 450-457), information on...