Journal of Studies on Alcohol articles from March 2001

Journal of Studies on Alcohol archives from March 2001

Alcohol Use and Problems at Colleges Banning Alcohol: Results of a National Survey(*).
March 1, 2001... EXCESSIVE ALCOHOL USE among students remains a persistent problem on U.S. college campuses. In 1993, the Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study (CAS) found that two in five U.S. college students were heavy episodic drinkers...

Trends in Public Opinion on Alcohol Policy Measures: Ontario 1989-1998.
March 1, 2001... THE DEVELOPMENT of alcohol policy measures intended to reduce drinking-related problems is influenced by many factors. These include commercial concerns, lobbying by special interest groups, perceived increase in particular problems or elevated...

The Dimensionality of Alcohol Abuse and Dependence: A Multivariate Analysis of DSM-IV Symptom Items in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth(*).
March 1, 2001... GUIDED BY FORMULATIONS of alcohol abuse and dependence in the DSM-III-R (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition-Revised; American Psychiatric Association [APA], 1987) and the concept of the Alcohol Dependence...

Progression of Alcohol Problems in a Navajo Sample(*).
March 1, 2001... HOW DO THE NAVAJO develop drinking problems? The question is of importance given the impact of alcohol among the Native-American people. In reservation states, alcohol-related deaths are substantially higher for Native Americans (17% of...

A Six-Year Prospective Study of Pathways toward Drug Use in Adolescent Boys with and without a Family History of a Substance Use Disorder(*).
March 1, 2001... On balance, some studies report limited, or no, differences between high- and low-risk children (Bates and Pandina, 1992; Johnson and Jacob, 1995); nevertheless, given existing positive findings from this literature, a number of variables have...

The Social Predictors of Adolescent Alcohol Misuse: A Test of the Social Development Model(*).
March 1, 2001... MOST 10TH-GRADE STUDENTS have tried alcohol, and roughly one third report a recent episode of heavy drinking (Johnston et al., 1997). Research has identified multiple predictors of adolescent alcohol misuse, including constitutional (Zuckerman,...

Drinking to Cope, Emotional Distress and Alcohol Use and Abuse: A Ten-Year Model(*).
March 1, 2001... NEARLY ALL of the major theories of drinking and alcohol problems assume a role for emotional regulation (Lang et al., 1999). Social learning theory, for example, assumes that alcohol consumption may be one way to cope with tension and negative...

Examining Developmental Trajectories in Adolescent Alcohol Use Using Piecewise Growth Mixture Modeling Analysis(*).
March 1, 2001... ALCOHOL USE typically begins in adolescence. Findings from the Monitoring the Future Study (Johnston et al., 1995) indicated that 9.5% of 8th graders and 5.5% of 10th graders reported having used alcohol by the 4th grade. Among 12th graders,...

How Effective Is Alcoholism Treatment in the United States?(*).
March 1, 2001... HOW EFFECTIVE is alcoholism treatment? This is a simple pragmatic question that is asked by legislators, reporters, funding sources, concerned families and clients themselves. It is also a difficult question to answer in a straightforward...

Longitudinal Relationship between the Alcohol Warning Label and Alcohol Consumption(*).
March 1, 2001... PUBLIC HEALTH INTERPRETATIONS of health warnings pose that exposure to a warning reduces the forewarned unsafe behavior. Such a deterrent effect is consistent with commonsense interpretations of warnings as providing risk information that...

Impact of Normative Feedback on Problem Drinkers: A Small-Area Population Study.
March 1, 2001... ABOUT 20% to 30% of people who consume alcohol in North America are problem drinkers (Institute of Medicine, 1990; Skinner, 1990). The majority of these individuals, although at risk for negative health and other psychosocial consequences (Room...

Validation of the Screening Strategy in the NIAAA "Physicians' Guide to Helping Patients with Alcohol Problems"(*).(National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse)(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... ALCOHOL USE DISORDERS are highly prevalent in medical settings (O'Connor and Schottenfeld, 1998), and physicians are in a unique position to identify people who are struggling with alcohol and to intervene (Lewis, 1996). Formal screening...

Verbal and Nonverbal Fluency in Children with Heavy Prenatal Alcohol Exposure(*).(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME (FAS), which represents an extreme consequence of heavy prenatal alcohol exposure, was first described in 1973 (Jones and Smith, 1973; Jones et al., 1973), although characteristics of FAS had been described previously by...

A Test of the Appraisal-Disruption Model of Alcohol and Stress(*).
March 1, 2001... THE TENSION REDUCTION THEORY has sparked more research than any other psychological theory of alcoholism (Leonard and Blane, 1999), yet studies provide equivocal support for the notion that alcohol reduces stress (Greeley and Oei, 1999). Recent...

Nonresponse in a Follow-Up to a Representative Telephone Survey of Adult Drinkers.(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... ALCOHOL RESEARCHERS routinely use survey methods to assess drinking patterns and problems (e.g., Dawson, 1998; Harford et al., 1991; Hilton, 1991; Poulin et al., 1997; Rehm and Sempos, 1995). With survey methods, issues related to...

Help-Seeking Timeline Followback for Problem Drinkers: Preliminary Comparison with Agency Records of Treatment Contacts.
March 1, 2001... IN SETTINGS that specialize in outpatient treatment of alcohol problems, clients can potentially be referred to one of several programs that focus on reducing consumption and preventing relapse. These alcohol-specific programs are often...

Monthly Variations in Self-Reports of Alcohol Consumption(*).(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... FOR MANY YEARS, conventional wisdom has suggested that epidemiologic surveys concerned with alcohol use should avoid data collection during particular times of the year when holidays or other events may temporarily influence consumption...