Journal of Studies on Alcohol articles from March 2004

Journal of Studies on Alcohol archives from March 2004

Alcohol consumption and problems among road rage victims and perpetrators *.
March 1, 2004... IN THE PAST FEW YEARS "road rage" has appeared, at least in the popular media, as a new sort of problem in several countries. Reports on road rage have recently come from Canada (Smart and Mann, 2002b), as well as the United States (Batten et...

A longitudinal study of the relationship between depressive symptoms and alcohol use in a sample of inner-city black youth *.
March 1, 2004... RESEARCHERS HAVE FOUND an association between alcohol use and depression (Colder and Chassin, 1993) for both clinical (Schuckit, 1986) and nonclinical populations (Rodgers et al., 2000). The co-occurrence of depressive symptoms and alcohol use...

Serious health consequences associated with alcohol use among college students: demographic and clinical characteristics of patients seen in an emergency department.
March 1, 2004... ALCOHOL USE by college students is an important societal and public health issue that has received much attention because it has many related social and health consequences. Heavy episodic drinking in particular (defined as five or more drinks...

Alcohol consumption predicts hypertension but not diabetes.
March 1, 2004... THE ROLE OF ALCOHOL use in the etiology of Type 2 diabetes is unclear. Several prospective studies (Ajani et al., 2000; Conigrave et al., 2001) have shown a negative or U-shaped association between alcohol consumption and the risk of Type 2...

Engaging general practitioners in the management of hazardous and harmful alcohol consumption: results of a meta-analysis.
March 1, 2004... ALCOHOL IS A RISK FACTOR for a wide range of physical and social harms, with the risk of harm increasing with the volume of alcohol consumption, the frequency of heavy drinking occasions and the volume of alcohol consumed during each drinking...

A comparison of personalized feedback for college student drinkers delivered with and without a motivational interview *.
March 1, 2004... NATIONAL SURVEYS indicate that approximately 40% of U.S. college students report at least one heavy-drinking episode in the past 2 weeks (O'Malley and Johnston, 2002) and that large numbers of U.S. college students experience alcohol-related...

Adolescent heavy episodic drinking trajectories and health in young adulthood *.
March 1, 2004... DRINKING at least five alcoholic drinks on one occasion (called heavy episodic or binge drinking by some; Kandel, 1980; White, 1987; Zucker and Gomberg, 1986) is a relatively common behavior among adolescents in the United States. According to...

Associations between adolescent drinking and driving involvement and self-reported risk and protective factors in students in public schools in Washington State.
March 1, 2004... PROGRESS IN REDUCING alcohol-related traffic fatalities appeared to have leveled out or reversed in 20002001 after nearly two decades of improvement (National Highway Traffic Safety Commission, 2002a). Although youths 16-20 years old were the...

Adolescent alcohol reduction and cessation expectancies *.
March 1, 2004... ALTHOUGH ADOLESCENCE IS commonly associated with the onset and escalation of alcohol use, recent longitudinal research with high school students and high-risk youth indicates that a portion of youth make efforts to decrease their drinking...

Effects of the menstrual cycle of white women on ethanol toxicokinetics.
March 1, 2004... AFTER DRINKING equivalent amounts of alcohol, women appear to be more vulnerable than men to many adverse effects of alcohol use, including liver and brain damage (Hochgraf et al., 1995; National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism,...

Drinking patterns of older Americans: National Health Interview Surveys, 1997-2001.
March 1, 2004... A COMPOSITE quantity-frequency measure, average number of drinks per day, is often used to examine associations between alcohol consumption and health-related outcomes among older people. However, the two components of this measure, number of...

The relationship between health-related quality of life and two measures of alcohol consumption.
March 1, 2004... THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN alcohol intake and aspects of health has been well explored (Poikolainen, 1995; Poikolainen et al., 1996; Single et al., 1999), and some reports have emphasised the complex nature of this relationship (Bondy, 1996; San...

The role of drinking restraint in alcohol dependence: validation of the temptation and restraint inventory in an alcohol dependent sample.
March 1, 2004... DRINKING RESTRAINT has received considerable attention as a potential indicator of problem drinking behavior. Drinking restraint according to Collins (1993) involves a cognitive and behavioral preoccupation with alcohol, demonstrated by the...

Does marital status predict long-term drinking? Five-year observations of dependent and problem drinkers *.
March 1, 2004... IT IS WELL ESTABLISHED that married individuals tend to drink less and to have fewer problems related to alcohol use than individuals who are single or divorced (Bachman et al., 1997; Chilcoat and Breslau, 1996; Clark and Midanik, 1982; Leonard...

Decreased taxation, spirits consumption and alcohol-related problems in Switzerland *.
March 1, 2004... ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION is related to more than 60 disease conditions (Gutjahr and Gmel, 2001; Rehm et al., 2003) and a wide variety of adverse social and behavioral consequences, such as workplace problems, disruption of family and social...

Intensity of acute services, self-help attendance and one-year outcomes among dual diagnosis patients *.
March 1, 2004... ADDICTION AND PSYCHIATRIC treatment systems are being challenged by increasing numbers of dual diagnosis patients (Burnam et al., 1995; Lehman et al., 1994). Compared with patients with have only substance abuse or psychiatric problems,...

Substance Abuse Treatment for Criminal Offenders: an Evidence-Based Guide for Practitioners.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Substance Abuse Treatment for Criminal Offenders: An Evidence-Based Guide for Practitioners, by David W. Springer, C. Aaron McNeece and Elizabeth Mayfield Arnold. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2003, 252 + xiii pages,...

Drug Abuse Treatment through Collaboration: Practice and Research Partnerships That Work.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Drug Abuse Treatment through Collaboration: Practice and Research Partnerships That Work, James L. Sorensen, Richard A. Rawson, Joseph Guydish and Joan E. Zweben (Eds.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2003, 326 + xxii...