Journal of Studies on Alcohol articles from July 2004

Journal of Studies on Alcohol archives from July 2004

Discrimination, historical loss and enculturation: culturally specific risk and resiliency factors for alcohol abuse among American Indians *.
July 1, 2004... A RAPIDLY EMERGING literature reports the effects of discrimination-induced stress effects on physical and mental health among minority groups (Kessler et al., 1999; Krieger and Sidney 1996; Williams and Williams-Morris, 2000; Williams et al.,...

Psychiatric disorders of convicted DWI offenders: a comparison among Hispanics, American Indians and non-Hispanic whites *.
July 1, 2004... DRIVING AFTER DRINKING is a major public health problem. It is the largest single cause of alcohol-related deaths, and impaired-driving arrests are second only to drug-related offenses as the most common crime in the U.S. (National Highway...

Documenting natural recovery in American-Indian drinking behavior: a coding scheme *.
July 1, 2004... RESEARCH ON the resolution of alcohol problems has traditionally focused on evaluating the effects of formal treatment interventions. Recent work has expanded to examine "extra-treatment" factors associated with treatment outcome, and a number...

Alcohol use and sexual risks for HIV infection among men and women receiving sexually transmitted infection clinic services in Cape Town, South Africa *.
July 1, 2004... HIV/AIDS IS RAVAGING South Africa, with an estimated 1,600 new HIV infections and 600 people dying of an AIDS-related illness each day. The overall HIV prevalence in South Africa is 11%, and HIV prevalence is highest in townships and informal...

Reducing the risks of alcohol use among urban youth: three-year effects of a computer-based intervention with and without parent involvement *.
July 1, 2004... CONSIDERABLE RESEARCH has been invested in discovering effective approaches to prevent alcohol use among American youth. Most approaches use theory-driven principles to help young people resist peer pressure, offset media influences, debunk...

The criminalization of impaired driving in Canada: assessing the deterrent impact of Canada's first per se law *.
July 1, 2004... DRUNK DRIVING has been identified as a leading cause of alcohol-related death in many developed countries (Harwood et al., 1998; Ross, 1975b; Xie et al., 1996). Impaired driving is the single leading criminal cause of death in Canada, and...

How can repeat drunk drivers be influenced to change? Analysis of the association between drunk driving and DUI recidivists' attitudes and beliefs *.
July 1, 2004... POLICY INTERVENTIONS designed to reduce driving under the influence (DUI) offenses operate, at least partly, through deterrence; that is, by modifying drivers' prescriptive attitudes toward DUI or their perceptions of the likelihood of adverse...

Premenstrual symptomatology and alcohol consumption in college women *.
July 1, 2004... ALCOHOL USE among college students is considered one of the most significant public health concerns on college campuses today (Hingson et al., 2002). Two thirds of college students report alcohol consumption (Johnston et al., 2000) and heavy...

Religiosity, alcohol expectancies, drinking motives and their interaction in the prediction of drinking among college students.
July 1, 2004... NUMEROUS STUDIES HAVE FOUND a consistent, albeit modest (-.10 to -.25) inverse relationship between religiosity and drinking (for reviews, see Benson, 1992; Gorsuch, 1995). Several different mechanisms have been proposed to account for this...

Another look at heavy episodic drinking and alcohol use disorders among college and noncollege youth *.
July 1, 2004... COLLEGE HEAVY EPISODIC DRINKING (consuming a large number of drinks in a row or within a narrow time frame) has attained prominence as a major public health problem in the United States. Students who engage in heavy episodic drinking are at...

Social norms campaigns: examining the relationship between changes in perceived norms and changes in drinking levels.
July 1, 2004... ALTHOUGH MILLIONS OF DOLLARS have been poured into alcohol prevention efforts on college campuses over the past decade, the drinking rate has remained relatively constant since 1993 (Wechsler et al., 2002). It is clear that new and innovative...

Progressing from light experimentation to heavy episodic drinking in early and middle adolescence.
July 1, 2004... ADOLESCENT ALCOHOL MISUSE is a major public health concern (Prendergast, 1994; Rachal et al., 1976). Reports suggest that 50% of adolescents have consumed alcohol by the eighth grade, with significant increases each year they are in high school...

What do we know? Process analysis and the search for a better understanding of Project MATCH's anger-by-treatment matching effect *.(Author Abstract)
July 1, 2004... PRIOR TO THE UNVEILING of the largely negative results of Project MATCH, patient-treatment matching was a subject of considerable research interest (Mattson et al., 1994). Project MATCH found only four patient-treatment matching effects, none...

Assessing continuity of care practices in substance use disorder treatment programs *.
July 1, 2004... CONTINUITY OF CARE, the "orderly, uninterrupted movement of patients among the diverse elements of the service delivery system" (Bachrach, 1981), is an essential element of high quality substance use disorder (SUD) treatment (Institute of...

Evidence-based care for alcohol use disorders is affordable *.
July 1, 2004... ALCOHOL USE DISORDERS are among the most common of the mental disorders (Andrews et al., 2001a; Kessler et al., 1994; Robins and Regier, 1991; Teesson et al., 2000). Prevalence is highest among those in the 15-34 age group and is consistently...

Mortality attributable to harmful drinking in the United States, 2000 *.
July 1, 2004... ALCOHOL IS ASSOCIATED with death from a variety of causes, including intentional (Soderstrom et al., 1997) and unintentional (Smith et al., 1999) injuries, liver disease and cancer (Bagnardi et al., 2001). Excessive drinking by adults accounts...

Retirement, risky alcohol consumption and drinking problems among blue-collar workers *.
July 1, 2004... WHETHER RETIREMENT increases or decreases older people's alcohol consumption and exacerbates or precipitates drinking problems is debated. Some researchers argue that retirement is likely for several reasons to play a central role in the onset...

A cohort study of male subjects attending an alcoholics anonymous program in India: one-year follow-up for sobriety *.
July 1, 2004... ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE is a major public health problem in many countries, including India. Affiliation with Alcoholics Anonymous (AA; Twelve Step Facilitation [TSF] therapy) has emerged in western countries as a widely accepted alternative method...