Journal of Studies on Alcohol articles from March 2000

Journal of Studies on Alcohol archives from March 2000

Social Control and Workplace Drinking Norms: A Comparison of Two Organizational Cultures(*).(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2000... OVER THE PAST TWO decades, an emerging literature on the influence of environmental factors on drinking behavior has broadened the scope of occupational alcohol research. The significance of the environmental focus is that it considers the...

Drinking in Alcoholics Following an Alcohol Challenge Research Protocol(*).(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2000... SUBSTANTIAL KNOWLEDGE about alcohol and alcoholism has been generated through research in which alcohol is administered to study participants in a carefully controlled laboratory environment. Although some of this research has been conducted...

Alcohol Dependence at the Cellular Level: Effects of Ethanol on Calcium Homeostasis of IM-9 Human Lymphoblast Cells(*).(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2000... Alcohol and drug abuse are a source of major public health, social and medical problems all over the world. In spite of the high incidence rate of alcoholism, the cellular mechanisms underlying tolerance and adaptation to ethanol are poorly...

Effects of Alcohol on Exogenous Precueing of Attention.(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2000... A SUBSTANTIAL LITERATURE indicates that the allocation of attention can be disrupted by alcohol ingestion. It has been reported, for example, that the extent of alcohol-related impairment on information processing tasks varies directly with...

Response Inhibition under Alcohol: Effects of Cognitive and Motivational Conflict(*).
March 1, 2000... IT HAS LONG BEEN THOUGHT that drinking alcohol can produce behaviors that would not ordinarily be exhibited when sober. The display of extreme and often hazardous or antisocial actions under alcohol has led to the suggestion that the drug...

Two-Year Mental Health Service Use and Course of Remission in Patients with Substance Use and Posttraumatic Stress Disorders(*).
March 1, 2000... INCREASING ATTENTION has been paid to the negative effects of comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on substance use disordered (SUD) patients' treatment response and long-term recovery (see Brown and Ouimette, 1999; Ouimette et al.,...

The Validity of the MAST in Psychiatric Settings: A Meta-Analytic Integration(*).
March 1, 2000... SELF-REPORT-BASED methods constitute one of the most common approaches to assessing alcohol use and related problems (e.g., Babor et al., 1987; Del Boca et al., 1994). The Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (MAST; Selzer, 1971) is an example of...

HIV Infection and Risk Behaviors in Two Cross-Sectional Surveys of Heterosexuals in Alcoholism Treatment(*).
March 1, 2000... THE AIDS EPIDEMIC in the United States has long been associated with injection drug use (IDU) (Turner et al., 1989). Later it became clear that alcohol and other noninjected drugs were associated with HIV infection (Biglan et al., 1990; Leigh,...

Rural At-Risk Drinkers: Correlates and One-Year Use of Alcoholism Treatment Services(*).
March 1, 2000... WE KNOW LITTLE about the processes and predictors of treatment entry for individuals with alcohol use disorders, particularly for those living in rural areas. Much of what we know about treatment participation in general comes from treatment...

Collegiate Alcohol Involvement and Role Attainment in Early Adulthood: Findings from a Prospective High-Risk Study(*).
March 1, 2000... EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES indicate that drinking generally peaks in young adults between the ages of 18 and 29 (Helzer et al., 1991), at the time when a role transition between secondary or postsecondary education and labor market participation...

The Development of Heavy Drinking and Alcohol-Related Problems from Ages 18 to 37 in a U.S. National Sample(*).
March 1, 2000... THERE IS A LARGE BODY of research on the development of heavy alcohol use and alcohol-related problems. It is well recognized in the alcohol field that heavy drinking and alcohol-related problems typically accelerate in late adolescence, peak...

Examining Drinking Patterns and Problems among Hispanic Groups: Results from a National Survey(*).
March 1, 2000... THE DRINKING PATTERNS of Hispanics have received increased attention in the past few decades. This is not surprising considering that Hispanics constitute almost 11% of the U.S. population and, as one of the fastest growing ethnic groups, are...

Alcohol Control and Injury Death in Alaska Native Communities: Wet, Damp and Dry under Alaska's Local Option Law(*).
March 1, 2000... ALASKA NATIVES living in small communities die from injuries at nearly five times the national rate (Berman and Leask, 1994). Alcohol plays a part in most of these deaths (Hlady and Middaugh, 1988; Kraus and Buffler, 1977; Landen et al., 1997)....

The Course of Alcoholism among Men in the Lundby Longitudinal Study, Sweden(*).
March 1, 2000... PROSPECTIVE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL studies of alcoholics are important in order to clarify the prognosis of their disorder (DeMallie et al., 1995; Fillmore, 1988; Schuckit, 1996; Schuckit et al., 1995; Vaillant, 1995). There is also a growing...

Expectancies, Evaluations and Attitudes: Prediction of College Student Drinking Behavior(*).
March 1, 2000... MULTIPLE FACTORS, including gender, living arrangements, peer pressure and attitudes about college life, have been shown to relate to college student alcohol use (Maney, 1990; Saltz and Elandt, 1986; Wechsler et al., 1995a). It has been...

Generalized Expectancies for Negative Mood Regulation and Problem Drinking among College Students(*).
March 1, 2000... MOST HUMAN BEINGS are motivated to engage in self-regulatory behavior of some type or another (Carver and Scheier, 1981; Kanfer and Karoly, 1972). In fact, questions pertaining to how we regulate ourselves have spawned a great deal of...

Influence of Dose and Beverage Type Instructions on Alcohol Outcome Expectancies of DUI Offenders.
March 1, 2000... MANY STUDIES have found significant associations between self-reported alcohol outcome expectancies and drinking behavior in both adults and adolescents (Goldman et al., 1987), but the correlations between reported outcome expectancies and...

The Relationship of Self-Efficacy Expectancies to Relapse among Alcohol Dependent Men and Women: A Prospective Study(*).
March 1, 2000... THE OVERALL THEORY of expectancies is that an individual's anticipation of behavior is a determinant of that behavior (Bandura, 1977). Considerable research has focused on identifying the role alcohol and drug expectancies play in substance use...

Drinking Restraint versus Alcohol Expectancies: Which Is the Better Indicator of Alcohol Problems?(*).
March 1, 2000... CLINICIANS AND RESEARCHERS have become increasingly interested in the role the drinker's cognitions play in an individual's propensity to drink or the individual's intention to control drinking. Herman and colleagues (Herman and Kozlowski,...