Journal of Studies on Alcohol articles from May 2004

Journal of Studies on Alcohol archives from May 2004

Changes in alcohol involvement, cognitions and drinking and driving behavior for youth after they obtain a driver's license *.
May 1, 2004... THERE IS CONSIDERABLE EVIDENCE that young drivers are disproportionately represented in automobile accidents. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (2001), drivers 15 to 20 years old constituted 6.8% of the licensed...

Alcohol-related emergency department visits among people ages 13 to 25 years *.
May 1, 2004... ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION by adolescents and young adults in the United States has been implicated in a wide range of social and medical problems. Although too young to legally purchase alcohol, people ages 12 to 20 account for between 10% and 20% of...

EEG alpha and level of response to alcohol in Hispanic- and non-Hispanic-American young adults with a family history of alcoholism *.
May 1, 2004... ONE APPROACH TO THE STUDY of risk factors for the development of alcoholism is based on the premise that individuals at higher risk for the disorder may have a quantitatively or qualitatively different response to alcohol challenge. These...

Predictors of effortful control among children of alcoholic and nonalcoholic fathers *.
May 1, 2004... AS EARLY AS PRESCHOOL age, children of alcoholic fathers, especially boys, have been shown to display increased levels of externalizing behavior problems in comparison with children of nonalcoholic fathers (Puttler et al., 1998). Indeed, it has...

The role of victim and perpetrator intoxication on sexual assault outcomes *.
May 1, 2004... APPROXIMATELY HALF of all sexual assault incidents among college and young adult populations involve the use of alcohol or other drugs by the perpetrator, the victim or both (see Abbey, 2002; Testa and Parks, 1996, for reviews). The high...

Following alcohol consumption, nontreatment-seeking alcoholics report greater stimulation but similar sedation compared with social drinkers *.
May 1, 2004... A GROWING BODY of research has focused on the subjective response to alcohol to understand risk for future alcohol problems. Most of these studies have compared heavy drinkers to social drinkers (Holdstock et al., 2000; King et al., 2002) or...

Relationships between adult women's alcohol problems and their childhood experiences of parental violence and psychological aggression *.
May 1, 2004... SEVERAL REVIEWS have reported that women's experiences of parental childhood physical abuse (CPA) are related to alcohol problems in adulthood (e.g., Miller and Downs, 1995; Simpson and Miller, 2002; Widom and Hiller-Sturmhofel, 2001). Past...

Gender composition of occupation and industry and working women's alcohol consumption.
May 1, 2004... SEVERAL STUDIES report a positive relationship between male dominance of an occupation and alcohol consumption by the women working in that occupation. Wilsnack and Wright (1991), for instance, found that women employed in male-majority...

Health services utilization and cost for at-risk drinkers: rural and urban comparisons *.
May 1, 2004... PROBLEM DRINKING is recognized as a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. It has been estimated that one in five men and one in ten women who visit their primary care provider satisfy the criteria for at-risk...

Cost-effectiveness analysis of a brief intervention delivered to problem drinkers presenting at an inner-city hospital emergency department. *.(Author Abstract)
May 1, 2004... PROBLEM DRINKING COMPROMISES individual health and well-being. The total societal cost of alcohol misuse was estimated at $185 billion for the year 1998 (Harwood, 2000). Helping problem drinkers to change their behavior and thereby reduce the...

Outcomes and costs of day hospital treatment and nonmedical day treatment for chemical dependency *.
May 1, 2004... ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ADDICTION are long-standing public health problems that cost society about $9 billion annually in chemical dependency treatment alone and triple that amount if costs for treating medical consequences are considered (Harwood...

Helping, spirituality and alcoholics anonymous in recovery *.
May 1, 2004... AS PEOPLE RECOVER from alcoholism, they can experience dramatic changes in how they think about themselves, others and the world in general. In fact, common wisdom in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) asserts that recovery from alcoholism necessitates...

Impacts of motivation for change on the severity of alcohol use by patients with severe and persistent mental illness *.
May 1, 2004... SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS are prevalent among patients with severe and persistent mental illness. The Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) study reports that 47% of patients with a lifetime diagnosis of schizophrenia or schizophreniform disorder...

Beer consumption and premature mortality in Louisiana: an ecologic analysis *.
May 1, 2004... ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION is associated with both chronic and acute disease-related mortality (Wilson, 2000), including violence (Zhang et al., 1997), traffic fatalities (General Accounting Office, 1987), homicide and suicide (Gruenewald et al.,...