Journal of Studies on Alcohol articles from May 1997

Journal of Studies on Alcohol archives from May 1997

Social and community resources and long-term recovery from treated and untreated alcoholism.
May 1, 1997... Most studies of recovery from alcoholism are primarily intended to assess the effectiveness of treatment, as typically determined by outcome data gathered within a year or two of discharge. Although studies of the short-term effectiveness of...

An initial evaluation of the psychosocial dimensions of the American Society of Addiction Medicine criteria for inpatient versus intensive outpatient substance abuse rehabilitation.
May 1, 1997... One of the key issues in substance abuse treatment concerns how to differentiate patients who require inpatient rehabilitation from those who can manage equally well in less restrictive and less costly modalities, such as intensive outpatient...

Acceptability of the controlled-drinking goal among alcohol treatment agencies in New South Wales, Australia.
May 1, 1997... A BODY of research has demonstrated consistent support for controlled drinking as an appropriate treatment goal for less dependent problem drinkers (Miller, 1983). Even among severely dependent "alcoholic" samples, controlled drinking (CD) has...

Low persistence predicts relapse in alcohol dependence following treatment.
May 1, 1997... THE RELATIONSHIP between personality and alcoholism is complex. Although there are significant conceptual and methodological issues to resolve in order to understand completely the connections between personality and alcoholism, there are...

Childhood sexual abuse and women's substance abuse: national survey findings.
May 1, 1997... The proliferation of research on childhood sexual abuse (CSA) in recent years has included attention to a variety of possible long-term consequences of early sexual abuse. Major types of sequelae studied (e.g., Beitchman et al., 1992; Briere...

Substance use initiation among adolescent children of alcoholics: testing protective factors.
May 1, 1997... A GROWING INTEREST in primary prevention has led to a search for groups at high risk for experiencing negative outcomes, who are critical targets for preventive intervention. This movement can clearly be seen in the field of adolescent...

Exploring the effects of age of alcohol use initiation and psychosocial risk factors on subsequent alcohol misuse.
May 1, 1997... Recent reviews of predictors of alcohol and other drug misuse by adolescents have indicated that an early age of initiation is an important precursor to later misuse (e.g., Hawkins et al., 1992, 1995; Kandel et al., 1986; Robins, 1992). Other...

Pain control in recovering alcoholics: effects of local anesthesia.
May 1, 1997... The medical literature suggests that a history of alcohol or nonalcohol drug abuse may predispose patients to achieve less effect from pharmacological methods for general anesthetics/pain control (Couderc et al., 1984; Fassoulaki et al., 1993;...

The relationship of gender balance at work, family responsibilities and workplace characteristics to drinking among male and female attorneys.
May 1, 1997... Recognition that alcohol-related problems are important issues for business and industry has led to theories, research and programming focusing on work settings and the drinking behaviors of workers. Vulnerability to the development of...

Drinking careers of older male alcoholics in treatment as compared to younger alcoholics and to older social drinkers.
May 1, 1997... The drinking history of individuals has been an issue of great interest in alcohol research and alcoholism treatment practice for a long time. In order to gain more understanding of the development of problem drinking or alcoholism and the...

Differences in sexual risk-taking behavior with state of inebriation in an aboriginal population in Ontario, Canada.
May 1, 1997... SLIGHTLY MORE than 1 million of Canada's 27 million people identified themselves as aboriginal (First Nations) people in the 1991 national census and 24% of these individuals live within the province of Ontario. Alcohol and substance use has long...

Alcohol and injury: a comparison of three emergency room samples in two regions.
May 1, 1997... ALCOHOL'S ASSOCIATION with nonfatal injury has been well documented in emergency room studies that have examined the prevalence of positive blood alcohol concentration (BAC) among injured patients compared to noninjured patients (Cherpitel,...

Drug Abuse Prevention with Multiethnic Youth.
May 1, 1997... by Gilbert J. Botvin, Steven Schinke and Mario A. Orlandi (Eds.). Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, Inc., 1995, 359 + x pages, $25.95 (paper). Drug Abuse Prevention with Multiethnic Youth, which grew out of a conference (June 1993)...

Introduction to Alcoholism Counseling: A Bio-Psycho-Social Approach, 2d ed.
May 1, 1997... by Jerome D. Levin. Washington, D.C.: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 1995, 280 + xv pages, $59.95 (cloth), $24.50 (paper). As in the first edition, this book is intended to provide counselors and counseling students, as well as "the general reader,...