Journal of Studies on Alcohol articles from July 2002

Journal of Studies on Alcohol archives from July 2002

Serotonin and serotonin 1-A receptors in the failure of ethanol-treated rats to adapt to a repeated stress schedule *.
July 1, 2002... SEVERAL LINES OF EVIDENCE point to a relationship between alcohol intake and depression. The prevalence of depression is greater in alcoholic patients than in the general population (Bacaner et al., 2002; Dodig et al., 2001; Woodruff et al.,...

The relationship between abstinence for one year following pretreatment assessment and alcohol use and other functioning at two years in individuals presenting for alcohol treatment *.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... THE DETERMINANTS of the clinical course of alcohol use disorders (AUDs) is an important theoretical and clinical problem (Riso et al., 1997). Most research on the clinical course of AUDs, however, has focused on pretreatment and...

Cognitive processes and motor skills differ in sensitivity to alcohol impairment *.
July 1, 2002... THE OCCURRENCE of alcohol-related car crashes, accidents and other injuries has prompted much research on alcohol-induced decrements in performance. Concern over the risk of these adverse events through the recreational use of alcohol has led...

Workplace harassment/abuse and alcohol-related outcomes: the mediating role of psychological distress *.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... PSYCHOSOCIAL RESEARCH linking distress-inducing stressful life experiences with increased alcohol use and alcohol-related problems often embraces a tension-reduction or self-medication theory of drinking. Psychological distress involving...

Job stress, unwinding and drinking in transit operators *.
July 1, 2002... ALCOHOL PROBLEMS continue to exact enormous costs from American society in terms of mortality, injuries and dollars (Doyle, 1996; Harwood et al., 1998). A large part of the financial cost is due to diminished work performance and loss of work...

Alcohol use in South Africa: findings from the South African Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (SACENDU) project *.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... ALTHOUGH THERE HAS BEEN a trend of decreasing alcohol consumption in most developed countries, in many developing countries, levels of alcohol consumption have increased in recent years (Gureje, 2000; Parry, 2000). This increase may be due in...

Wartime Paris, cirrhosis mortality, and the ceteris paribus assumption *.
July 1, 2002... LIVER CIRRHOSIS mortality rates plunged in Paris over the course of World War II. A mere 178 cirrhosis deaths were reported by 1945, down from an average of about 1,000 cirrhosis deaths per year over 3 prewar years, 1936-1938. We revisit this...

Postsecondary education and heavy drinking by young adults: the moderating effect of race *.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... THE PREVALENCE OF HEAVY DRINKING, typically defined as five or more consecutive alcoholic beverages, is highest in young adulthood, and it appears to be particularly problematic among college students (Johnston et al., 2001; Substance Abuse and...

The moderating role of risk-taking tendency and refusal assertiveness on social influences in alcohol use among inner-city adolescents *.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... A VAST NUMBER of risk and protective factors for adolescent alcohol use have been identified (Belcher and Shinitzky, 1998; Hawkins et al., 1992). According to a social learning approach (Bandura, 1986), adolescents learn behaviors (including...

Outlets, drinking and driving: a multilevel analysis of availability *.
July 1, 2002... MUCH ATTENTION has recently been directed toward the development of interventions intended to reduce problem outcomes associated with drinking alcoholic beverages. One focus of such work has been the development of strategic interventions that...

Personal drinking and sociocultural drinking norms: a representative population study *.
July 1, 2002... ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION is influenced by a variety of social factors that, in part, determine why one should consume alcohol (e.g., celebration or coping), when it is appropriate to drink (e.g., after work or in the morning), and how much one...

The effects of alcohol and expectancies on risk perception and behavioral skills relevant to safer sex among heterosexual young adult women *.
July 1, 2002... ALTHOUGH HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS (HIV) transmission rates in men who have sex with men and in intravenous drug users declined during the 1990s, HIV transmission through heterosexual contact among young adult women increased (Karon et al.,...

Drinking to cope among college students: prevalence, problems and coping processes *.
July 1, 2002... COLLEGE IS normatively a time of heavy drinking (Chen and Kandel, 1995), which is often associated with a multitude of negative consequences for college students, including problems with academics, interpersonal relations and the legal system...

A comparison of alcohol-induced and independent depression in alcoholics with histories of suicide attempts *.
July 1, 2002... ALCOHOL-DEPENDENT MEN AND WOMEN are at high risk for both major depressive episodes (Kessler et al., 1996; Regier et al., 1990; Roy et al., 1991) and for suicide attempts (Dhossche et al., 2000; Dieserud et al., 2000; Hesselbrock et al., 1988;...

Learning About Drinking.
July 1, 2002... by Eleni Houghton and Ann M. Roche (Eds). Philadelphia, PA: Brunner-Routledge, 2001, 304 + xv pages, $49.95 (cloth). This is the fifth book in a series on Alcohol and Society sponsored by the International Center for Alcohol Policies, a...

Substance Abuse Treatment and the Stages of Change.
July 1, 2002... by Gerard J. Connors, Dennis M. Donovan and Carlo C. DiClemente. New York: Guilford Press, 2001, 274 + xii pages, $35.00 (cloth). The treatment of substance use problems presents a formidable challenge to clinicians because the initiation...