Journal of Studies on Alcohol articles from January 2006

Journal of Studies on Alcohol archives from January 2006

Preliminary data on the association among the serotonin transporter polymorphism, subjective alcohol experiences, and drinking behavior *.
January 1, 2006... GENETIC LINKAGE ANALYSES and sophisticated genotyping technology now confirm a clear and substantial genetic component to alcohol abuse and dependence as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders, Third Edition,...

Acute alcohol consumption and mechanism of injury *.
January 1, 2006... THE PREVAILING PUBLIC HEALTH APPROACH to injury prevention characterizes the causation of injury in terms of specific environmental circumstances, which form the context of the energy exchange that results in the injury (Haddon, 1980; Kraus and...

Health care provider advice and risk factors associated with alcohol consumption following pregnancy recognition *.
January 1, 2006... MATERNAL CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL during pregnancy is arguably the most significant cause of developmental disabilities of known etiology, with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) representing the most severe manifestation (Stratton et al., 1996)....

Erratum.(Correction Notice)
January 1, 2006... In "The Role of Women's Substance Use in Vulnerability to Forcible and Incapacitated Rape" by M. Testa, J.A. Livingston, C. Vanzile-Tamsen, and M.R. Frone, which appeared in the November 2003 (Vol. 64 [6], pp. 756-764) issue of the Journal of...

Latent class analysis of substance use: comparison of two American Indian reservation populations and a national sample *.
January 1, 2006... REPORTS OF HIGH RATES of substance use in American Indian (AI) communities have led to an increasing emphasis on documenting and explaining disparities in an effort to lay the groundwork for developing targeted interventions (Beals et al.,...

Alcohol-use problems in young black adults: effects of religiosity, social resources, and mental health *.
January 1, 2006... OVER THE PAST TWO DECADES, a number of religion and health studies have shown that religious involvement is protective in lowering overall mortality (Comstock and Partridge, 1972; McCullough et al., 2000) and morbidity (Idler and Kasl, 1992;...

Alcohol use in motion pictures and its relation with early-onset teen drinking *.
January 1, 2006... EARLY INITIATION OF ALCOHOL USE (before 14 years of age) is an important predictor of impaired health status, having been associated with increased risk for alcohol dependence and abuse at later ages (DeWit et al., 2000; Grant, 1998; Grant and...

Mass media and community interventions to reduce alcohol use by early adolescents *.
January 1, 2006... ALTHOUGH ALCOHOL USE IS ILLEGAL for those below the age of 21 in the United States, it is common among American adolescents, with approximately 6% having had at least one drink by the age of 10, and 80% by age 18 (Zucker, 2003). Self-reports of...

Educational achievement and early school behavior as predictors of alcohol-use disorders: 35-year follow-up of the Woodlawn Study *.
January 1, 2006... EDUCATIONAL LEVEL, scholastic achievement, and school behaviors are linked to alcohol consumption and alcohol-use disorders in a number of ways. We know, for example, that students who drink heavily tend to do less well in classes and are more...

A developmental study of heavy episodic drinking among college students: the role of psychosocial and behavioral protective and risk factors *.
January 1, 2006... PROBLEM USE OF ALCOHOL among college students is a serious public health problem in the United States (Goldman, 2002; Keeling, 1998; Wechsler et al., 2000, 2002). Nearly half of college students surveyed reported "getting drunk" as a reason for...

Precontemplated and impulsive suicide attempts among individuals with alcohol dependence *.
January 1, 2006... ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE IS A PREVALENT disorder (Grant et al., 2004a). Postmortem studies in the United States consistently show that at least one third of persons who commit suicide have an alcohol-use disorder (e.g., Conwell et al., 1996)....

Examining a conceptual framework of intimate partner violence in men and women arrested for domestic violence *.
January 1, 2006... INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE (IPV) is a significant problem in the United States. Schafer et al. (1998) surveyed U.S. couples and found that more than 20% reported experiencing one or more episodes of IPV within the past year. Moreover, research...

The effects of acute alcohol consumption, cognitive reserve, partner risk, and gender on sexual decision making *.
January 1, 2006... COLLEGE STUDENTS EXPERIENCE MANY negative consequences from heavy alcohol consumption, including academic problems, personal injuries, impaired driving, interpersonal violence, and vandalism (Perkins, 2002). In the area of risky sexual...

The effect of past-year heavy drinking on alcohol-related aggression *.
January 1, 2006... IT IS WELL ESTABLISHED that acute alcohol consumption facilitates aggressive behavior (Bushman and Cooper, 1990; Chermack and Giancola, 1997; Ito et al., 1996). Correlational studies indicate that approximately 50% of violent crimes reported to...

Readiness to change, norms, and self-efficacy among heavy-drinking college students.
January 1, 2006... THE PREVALENCE OF HEAVY DRINKING on college campuses has not shown any sign of decrease. According to Wechsler and colleagues (2002), two of five college students engaged in heavy episodic drinking in their 2002 survey, which is similar to the...

Predictors of abstinence and nonproblem drinking after 12-step treatment in Sweden *.
January 1, 2006... MANY AUTHORS HAVE NOTED that the identification of factors predicting addiction treatment outcomes may stimulate theory development while helping practitioners identify meaningful targets of intervention. Because of methodological differences...

Prevalence and distribution of alcohol use and impairment in the workplace: a U.S. national survey *.
January 1, 2006... OF ALL PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCES with the potential to impair cognitive and behavioral performance, alcohol is the most widely used and misused substance in the general population and in the workforce. The misuse of alcohol by employed adults...

Comparison of psychiatric diagnoses from interview reports with those from best-estimate procedures *.
January 1, 2006... THE BEST-ESTIMATE DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE has been recognized as an important element in the assessment protocol of a psychiatric genetics study (Baron et al., 1990; Merikangas et al., 1989; Weissman et al., 1986). The scientific rationale for...

Development and preliminary validation of the young adult alcohol consequences questionnaire *.
January 1, 2006... A SUBSTANTIAL PROPORTION of U.S. college students drink and experience significant consequences (Abbey, 2002; Giancola, 2002; Harford et al., 2003; Montgomery and Haemmerlie, 1993; Perkins, 2002; Wood et al., 2000) that affect both the drinker...