Journal of Studies on Alcohol articles from July 2003

Journal of Studies on Alcohol archives from July 2003

A temporal threshold for induction of persistent alcohol preference: behavioral evidence in a rat model of intermittent intoxication *.
July 1, 2003... DEVELOPMENT OF ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE is gradual, requires prolonged exposure to alcohol and reflects neuroadaptive processes in the brain. A central phenomenon in this process is a transition from low to high voluntary ethanol consumption....

Aboriginal social organization, contemporary experience and American Indian adolescent alcohol use.
July 1, 2003... AMERICAN INDIAN DRINKING has long been the subject of intense stereotyping, speculation and theorizing. Indeed, perhaps no American Indian health concern has received more attention in both the popular and scientific imagination. It is not...

Neurocognitive impairment due to chronic alcohol consumption in an American Indian Community *.
July 1, 2003... THE HIGH RATES OF MORBIDITY and mortality related to alcohol use in some American Indian tribes are widely known (May and Gossage, 2001; Robin et al., 1998), but the cultural norms and patterns of heavy episodic drinking centered on...

Religious influences on heavy episodic drinking in Chinese-American and Korean-American college students *.
July 1, 2003... HEAVY EPISODIC (binge) drinking in college students is a growing focus of attention in the alcohol research literature (Goldman et al., 2002). Heavy drinking episodes (defined as five or more drinks on an occasion for men and four or more...

Predictors of aggression across three generations among sons of alcoholics: relationships involving grandparental and parental alcoholism, child aggression, marital aggression and parenting practices *.
July 1, 2003... NUMEROUS STUDIES have documented an association between alcohol use and problems and the perpetuation of both domestic violence and child abuse in American families. Estimates indicate that alcohol use is involved in 30% of child abuse cases...

Perception and reality: a national evaluation of social norms marketing interventions to reduce college students' heavy alcohol use *.
July 1, 2003... FOUR IN FIVE college students drink alcohol, and two in five engage in heavy episodic drinking (O'Malley and Johnston, 2002; Wechsler et al., 2002b), which is defined as the consumption of five or more drinks in a row at least once in the past...

Dimensionality of alcohol dependence in young adulthood: current versus lifetime symptomatology.
July 1, 2003... PREVIOUS STUDIES have been inconclusive in determining whether alcohol dependence is best typified as unidimensional (i.e., reflective of an underlying continuum) or multidimensional (i.e., comprised of distinct, if correlated, symptom...

Understanding college drinking: assessing dose response from survey self-reports *.
July 1, 2003... THOSE NEW TO ALCOHOL RESEARCH are often surprised, if not shocked, to learn that there are a number of competing measures of alcohol consumption available, and that opinions differ over the best one to use. The choice of measure depends on the...

Does heavy drinking affect academic performance in College? Findings from a prospective study of high achievers *.
July 1, 2003... CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES of college students have consistently found an association between heavy alcohol use and academic performance, as students who report more frequent heavy drinking also report more frequent alcohol-related academic...

Contrasting outcomes of older versus middle-aged and younger adult chemical dependency patients in a managed care program *.
July 1, 2003... SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND DEPENDENCE in older adults have been recognized as significant concerns with numerous adverse consequences for physical and mental health (Liberto et al., 1992). An increase in the proportion of older adults in the U.S....

Psychosocial outcomes of alcohol involvement and dysphoria in women: a 16-year prospective community study *.
July 1, 2003... THE UNIQUE AND COMORBID EFFECTS of alcohol involvement and depressive conditions on adult psychosocial functioning have not been adequately determined (Barnet and Gotlib, 1988; Newcomb and Bentler, 1988a). This failure is due, in part, to the...

Fragmentary and en bloc blackouts: similarity and distinction among episodes of alcohol-induced memory loss *.
July 1, 2003... ALCOHOL BLACKOUTS, once believed to signify mystic possession of the soul, are regarded as a warning sign of problem drinking. Although cited as evidence of alcohol misuse in most formal diagnostic systems (Grant and Towle, 1991), there is...

Risk factors for suicide and medically serious suicide attempts among alcoholics: analyses of Canterbury suicide project data *.
July 1, 2003... ALTHOUGH IT HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED that alcoholism confers risk for completed suicide (Harris and Barraclough, 1997), data are limited on risk factors for serious suicidal behavior among alcoholics (Murphy et al., 1992). Consistent with a...

Risk factors for nonremission among initially untreated individuals with alcohol use disorders *.
July 1, 2003... ALCOHOL USE PROBLEMS are increasingly recognized as recurring disorders with a potential long-term course of relapse and nonremission. The likelihood of a chronic course of these disorders underscores the need to identify individuals most at...

Sensation seeking, alcohol use and sexual risk behaviors among men receiving services at a clinic for sexually transmitted infections *.
July 1, 2003... ALCOHOL IS THE MOST PREVALENT SUBSTANCE used in sexual contexts, but research linking alcohol use to sexual risks has yielded mixed results. In some studies heavy drinking is associated with higher rates of sexual risk behaviors, whereas other...

Worker substance use, workplace problems and the risk of occupational injury: a matched case-control study *.
July 1, 2003... IN 1997, NEARLY 5,300 WORKERS were killed on the job (Centers for Disease Control [CDC], 2001a). Another 3.3 million workers were treated in hospital emergency departments (CDC, 2001b). Recognizing the toll of occupational injury on public...

The persistent influence of social networks and alcoholics anonymous on abstinence *.
July 1, 2003... ALTHOUGH SUBSTANCE ABUSE treatment is associated with reduced drinking and fewer alcohol-related problems in the 6 months (Weisner et al., 2000) and 12 months (Gerstein et al., 1994; Weisner et al., 2002) following treatment, its effect is...

Impact of correcting for nonresponse by weighting on estimates of alcohol consumption.
July 1, 2003... THE RELATIVELY LOW and declining response rates to general population surveys continue to pose serious problems to survey researchers in the alcohol field. This is because nonrespondents may differ in their alcohol consumption habits from...