Journal of Studies on Alcohol articles from March 1998

Journal of Studies on Alcohol archives from March 1998

Association of the ADH*2 allele with reduced ethanol consumption in Jewish men in Israel: a pilot study.
March 1, 1998... CONSIDERABLE EVIDENCE exists supporting a multifactorial etiology, including biological, socio-cultural and psychological influences, of alcohol consumption patterns (Koopmans and Boomsma, 1996, Lumeng and Crabb, 1994; Merikangas, 1990;...

Mortality in alcoholism among men in the Lundby Community Cohort, Sweden: a forty-year follow-up.
March 1, 1998... Follow-up studies of individuals with alcohol-related problems are important sources of information regarding morbidity and mortality (Fillmore, 1988; Marshall et al., 1994; Vaillant, 1995). Somatic and psychiatric comorbidity and social...

Alcohol consumption in the rural population of Misungwi subdistrict in Mwanza region, Tanzania.
March 1, 1998... Alcoholic drinks have been brewed and consumed for centuries in Tanzania, East Africa. However, the number of studies done on the prevalence of alcohol use is limited. In 1978, Njelekela carried out a study among the adult population of...

Predictors of participation in aftercare sessions and self-help groups following completion of intensive outpatient treatment for substance abuse.
March 1, 1998... In substance abuse treatment, an increasing emphasis is being placed on the need to provide a continuum of care to individuals with alcohol and drug use disorders. The widely used American Society of Addiction Medicine placement criteria...

Effects of moderate blood alcohol concentrations on spatial and temporal contrast sensitivity.
March 1, 1998... Although it is well known that alcohol significantly influences many different aspects of performance, there is relatively little research on the effect of alcohol on sensory processing. From a theoretical perspective, the influence of alcohol...

Alcohol, cognitive impairment and expectancies.
March 1, 1998... A number of investigators have noted marked individual differences among social drinkers in their behavioral sensitivity to alcohol (Wilson et al., 1984; Wilson and Plomin, 1985). Some evidence suggests that this variability may be due, in...

Cognitive functioning in sober social drinkers: a review of the research since 1986.
March 1, 1998... In the late 1970s and early 1980s, several researchers published studies suggesting the presence of mild cognitive impairment in sober "social" drinkers of beverage alcohol. At the empirical level, these studies reported an inverse...

Volume of ethanol consumption: effect of different approaches to measurement.
March 1, 1998... Although volume of ethanol intake has been faulted (Knupfer, 1984; Rehm et al., 1996; Room, 1977) for its inability to distinguish meaningful variations in drinking patterns (e.g., in the frequency of heavy episodic drinking), it remains an...

Effects of outcome expectancies and disinhibition on ad lib alcohol consumption.
March 1, 1998... Over the past decade, a growing body of work has examined the role of expectancies in alcohol consumption. Self-reported expectancies have been found to predict concurrent self-reported alcohol consumption (Critchlow, 1987; Leigh, 1987, 1989;...

Social settings and situations of underage drinking.
March 1, 1998... The influence of the situational context of drinking on the amount of alcohol consumed at any given drinking occasion and on the consequences of the drinking has been well demonstrated for adults (Caetano and Herd, 1988; Harford, 1983; Single,...

Alcohol consumption, sensation seeking and ski injury: a case-control study.
March 1, 1998... A substantial literature exists on the association of alcohol consumption and accidental injury (Cherpitel, 1993b; Roizen, 1989), as well as on alcohol consumption and sensation-seeking behaviors. Alcoholics and heavy, problem drinkers have...

Antisocial personality disorder and depression in relation to alcoholism: a community-based sample.
March 1, 1998... Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) and depression frequently co-occur with alcoholism (Hesselbrock et al., 1985; Lewis et al., 1982; Penick et al., 1994). There has recently been increasing interest in whether the presence of comorbid...

The effect of sampling, diagnostic criteria and assessment procedures on the observed prevalence of DSM-III-R personality disorders among treated alcoholics.
March 1, 1998... Within a biopsychosocial model of substance use disorders, coexisting personality disorders (PDs) are currently thought to be of paramount interest in treatment planning and outcome research (Blume, 1989; Kaufman and McNaul, 1992; Kosten,...

Pathways of Addiction: Opportunities in Drug Abuse Research.
March 1, 1998... By the Institute of Medicine. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1996, 310 + xiii pages, $49.95 (paper). At the request of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Institute of Medicine formed the Committee on Opportunities in Drug...

Drug Policy and Human Nature: Psychological Perspectives on the Prevention, Management, and Treatment of Illicit Drug Abuse.
March 1, 1998... By Warren K. Bickel and Richard J. DeGrandpre (Eds.). New York: Plenum Press, 1996, 326 + xiii pages, $49.50 (cloth). There are many questions about the psychological and behavioral aspects of alcohol and drug abuse: What is the best way to...