Journal of Studies on Alcohol articles from July 1997

Journal of Studies on Alcohol archives from July 1997

Physiological alcohol dependence as a "specifier" of risk for medical problems and relapse liability in DSM-IV.
July 1, 1997... (J. Stud. Alcohol 58: 341-350, 1997) The clinical presentation of substance use disorders often includes the element of physiological dependence, defined as "a state of adaptation to a drug or alcohol, usually characterized by the...

Pretreatment readiness for change in male alcohol dependent subjects: predictors of one-year follow-up status.
July 1, 1997... (J. Stud. Alcohol 58: 351-357, 1997) A major challenge for substance abuse treatment providers is to better understand who will benefit from what type of treatment and when treatment will be most effective. There are a number of effective...

The reliability of Form 90: an instrument for assessing alcohol treatment outcome.
July 1, 1997... (J. Stud. Alcohol 58: 358-364, 1997) Alcohol consumption is a primary domain of dependent variables in the assessment of alcohol treatment outcomes (Litten and Allen, 1992). A variety of methods have been used to quantify drinking, including...

Barriers to alcoholism treatment: reasons for not seeking treatment in a general population sample.
July 1, 1997... The majority of individuals with alcohol use disorders do not enter treatment. Given that the estimated ratio of untreated individuals needing treatment to treated individuals ranges from 3:1 to 13:1 (Sobell et al., 1992), there exists a great...

The contribution of drinking patterns to the relative risk of injury in six communities: a self-report based probability approach.
July 1, 1997... (J. Stud. Alcohol 58: 372-381,1997) During the past decade there has been a growing recognitions that alcohol consumption increases the likelihood of injury among individuals in the general population. However, to-date research has failed to...

A descriptive analysis of the structure and temporal pattern of voluntary ethanol intake within an acquisition paradigm.
July 1, 1997... (J. Stud. Alcohol 58: 382-391, 1997) Despite the ongoing use of traditional paradigms for the examination of ethanol self-selection by laboratory animals, it was recognized rather early in the development of the field that an understanding...

Renal effects of alcohol withdrawal in five-week alcohol-treated rats.
July 1, 1997... (J. Stud. Alcohol 5#: 392-396, 1997) Ischemic acute renal failure. can be seen clinically, whenever the circulation to the kidney is interrupted in situations such as renovascular surgery, renal transplantation and cardiac surgery. ...

The relationship between self-rating of the effects of alcohol and alcohol challenge results in ninety-eight young men.
July 1, 1997... A person's level of response to a substance is a complex and important attribute (Shuster, 1990). The intensity with which one reacts to a drug might have an impact on the decision to use that substance again, the dose in which it is taken and...

Factors affecting agreement between alcohol abusers' and their collaterals' reports.
July 1, 1997... When gathered under appropriate conditions, alcohol abusers' self-reports of drinking and related events are generally accurate for most research and clinical purposes (Babor et al., 1990; Brown et al., 1992; Sobell and Sobell, 1990). However,...

The role of childhood stressors in the intergenerational transmission of alcohol use disorders.
July 1, 1997... There is consensus that growing up in an alcoholic family is highly related to one's later development of alcohol abuse (e.g., Sher, 1991; Windle and Searles, 1990). In seeking to understand the effects of parents' alcoholism on the...

Vigilance and iconic memory in children at high risk for alcoholism.
July 1, 1997... (J. Stud. Alcohol 58: 428-434, 1997) There has been an accumulation of evidence suggesting that aspects of information processing at successive stages of complexity differ among children at high risk for alcoholism as compared to children at...

Correlates of alcohol, tobacco and marijuana use among Scottish postsecondary helping-profession students.
July 1, 1997... (J. Stud. Alcohol 58: 435-444, 1997) Initial use of alcohol, tobacco and cannabis generally starts in the teenage years in the U.K. and North America. However, it is unclear if changes in the use patterns of alcohol and other substances...

Pharmacological Effects of Ethanol on the Nervous System.
July 1, 1997... by Richard A. Deitrich and V. Gene Erwin (Eds.). Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, Inc., 1996, 459 + xviii pages, $99.95 (cloth). In this volume, the 28th of the CRC Pharmacology and Toxicology: Basic and Clinical Aspects series, Deitrich and...