Journal of Studies on Alcohol articles from May 2000

Journal of Studies on Alcohol archives from May 2000

Types of Marijuana Users by Longitudinal Course(*).
May 1, 2000... THE STUDY OF developmental trajectories of involvement in the use of drugs can be approached using three strategies. One strategy identifies pathways of progression from one drug class to another, including legal, illegal and medically...

Role of General and Specific Competence Skills in Protecting Inner-City Adolescents from Alcohol Use(*).
May 1, 2000... OVER 100,000 deaths per year in the United States are related to excessive alcohol consumption (Doyle, 1996). Estimates of the costs to American society of alcohol abuse, including alcohol-related illness and death, were $166.5 billion in 1995...

Alcohol-Related Relative Risk of Driver Fatalities and Driver Involvement in Fatal Crashes in Relation to Driver Age and Gender: An Update Using 1996 Data(*).
May 1, 2000... BASED ON extensive research over several decades, we now have overwhelming evidence showing that even blood alcohol concentration (BAC) levels as low as 0.02% impair driving-related skills. One such line of evidence grows out of laboratory...

Gender Differences in the Control of Alcohol-Impaired Driving in California(*).
May 1, 2000... ALCOHOL-IMPAIRED DRIVING has decreased in recent years for both men and women, but the rates have continued to be much lower for women than for men. In 1983, the proportion of traffic crashes that involved alcohol was 25% for women and 40% for...

Reducing Harmful Alcohol-Related Behaviors: Effective Regulatory Methods(*).
May 1, 2000... OF ALL DEATHS from motor vehicle traffic accidents, 39% are associated with alcohol (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration [NHTSA], 1998). The financial costs of alcohol-related crashes are estimated to total $45 billion annually...

Alcohol Use, Condom Use and Partner Type among Heterosexual Adolescents and Young Adults(*).
May 1, 2000... AIDS IS NOW the sixth leading cause of death among young people (aged 15 to 24), and heterosexual transmission is the primary route of infection in a larger percentage of these cases than in any other age group (CDC, 1998). Although correct and...

Drinking and DSM-IV Alcohol and Drug Dependence among White and Mexican-American DUI Offenders(*).
May 1, 2000... ONE OF THE MOST important factors mediating the association between drinking and driving is ethnicity (Caetano, 1984; Caetano and Clark, 2000; Howard et al., 1989; May, 1989; Padilla and Morrissey, 1993; Perrine and Arce-Quinones, 1994; Ross et...

Alcohol Abuse and Dependence in a National Sample of Psychiatric Patients(*).
May 1, 2000... KNOWLEDGE about demographic and clinical characteristics of individuals with Alcohol Abuse and Dependence (AAD) has come primarily from large-scale epidemiological surveys (Kessler et al., 1994; Robins and Regier, 1991) and from smaller-scale...

Withdrawal and Tolerance: Prognostic Significance in DSM-IV Alcohol Dependence(*).
May 1, 2000... THE CLINICAL AND RESEARCH importance of alcohol withdrawal and tolerance in the diagnosis of alcohol dependence has been unclear for many years. Although the Feighner criteria (Feighner et al., 1972) and the Research Diagnostic Criteria...

Diagnostic Concordance of DSM-III, DSM-III-R, DSM-IV and ICD-10 Alcohol Diagnoses in Adolescents(*).
May 1, 2000... DIAGNOSTIC CONCORDANCE studies highlight functional similarities and differences among nosological systems. In addictions research, such data inform as to the research and clinical implications of changes in diagnostic criteria. The diagnostic...

A Brief Screening Instrument for Problem Drinking in the Emergency Room: The RAPS4(*).
May 1, 2000... HEAVY, FREQUENT AND PROBLEM drinking have been found to be very prevalent in emergency room (ER) populations (Cherpitel, 1993); therefore, a number of brief screening instruments for identifying problem drinkers have been tested in this...

Self-Reported Frequency of Drinking Assessed with a Closed- or Open-Ended Question Format: A Split-Sample Study in Switzerland(*).
May 1, 2000... SURVEY DATA on alcohol are generally considered to underestimate actual consumption (Bradburn et al., 1979; Rehm and Spuhler, 1993; Waterton and Duffy, 1984). Extensive research has resulted in new methods of assessment, such as...

What Is a Drinking Episode?(*).
May 1, 2000... THE PHRASE "drinking episode" has a variety of connotations for investigators studying different aspects of alcohol use. For those who study alcohol's acute physiological effects, a drinking episode may be regarded as the consumption of a...

Work Stressors and Alcohol Consumption among White-Collar Workers: A Signal Detection Approach.
May 1, 2000... ALTHOUGH THE BELIEF that work stress promotes heavy drinking or problematic alcohol use has been widely accepted (Gupta and Jenkins, 1984; Herold and Conlon, 1981; Miller et al., 1988; Trice and Roman, 1978), when empirical literature on work...

Stress, Alcohol Use and Alcohol-Related Problems: The Influence of Negative and Positive Affect in Two Cohorts of Young Adults(*).
May 1, 2000... THE ASSOCIATION between stress and alcohol involvement has received considerable attention over the years (e.g., Krause, 1991; McCreary and Sadava, 1998; Peirce et al., 1996; Welte and Mirand, 1995). This relationship is thought to be important...

Typologies of the Cultural Position of Drinking(*).
May 1, 2000... IT HAS LONG BEEN recognized that societies differ in drinking practices and in the cultural position of drinking. Efforts to systematize such observations into typologies of the cultural position of drinking have a shorter history, stretching...

Alcohol and Alcoholism: Effects on Brain and Development.
May 1, 2000... Alcohol and Alcoholism: Effects on Brain and Development, by J.H. Hannigan, L.P. Spear, N.E. Spear and C.R. Goodlett, (Eds.). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1999, 282 + xv pages, $69.95 (cloth). (Special prepaid price $34.50). This...

Couple and Family Therapy of Addiction.
May 1, 2000... Couple and Family Therapy of Addiction, by J.D. Levin. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1998, 340 + xvii pages, $60.00 (cloth). Couple and Family Therapy of Addiction is not a typical edited volume; that is, a compendium of chapters by...

CORRESPONDENCE.
May 1, 2000... Dear Editor: I am writing to inform you of a study I recently completed on methodologies employed in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol (Gray, 1999). The data were based on a review of all articles using inferential statistics that appeared...