Journal of Studies on Alcohol articles from May 2006

Journal of Studies on Alcohol archives from May 2006

Are U.S. women drinking less (or more)? Historical and aging trends, 1981-2001 *.
May 1, 2006... FEW PATTERNS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR are universal, recurring in every known era and culture. One apparently universal pattern is that men consume more alcohol, and get into more trouble because of their alcohol consumption, than women do. Judging...

ALDH2*2 is associated with a decreased likelihood of alcohol-induced blackouts in Asian American college students *.
May 1, 2006... ALCOHOL-INDUCED BLACKOUTS (periods of anterograde amnesia without loss of consciousness) are commonly reported in both problem and nonproblem drinkers. Studies in the United States, Australia, and Scandinavia indicate approximately one third to...

Predictors of untreated remission from late-life drinking problems *.
May 1, 2006... MANY PROBLEM DRINKERS REMIT "naturally," that is, without treatment or mutual self-help group participation. General population surveys have shown that as many as three-fourths of individuals with remitted drinking problems attain remission...

Formal treatment, self-help, or no treatment for alcohol-use disorders? Evidence from the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse *.
May 1, 2006... SELF-HELP GROUP PARTICIPATION increasingly is viewed as an important complement to formal substance abuse treatment with the potential to improve outcomes and reduce health care expenditures (Humphreys et al., 2004; Kelly, 2003; Laudet et al.,...

Music, substance use, and aggression *.
May 1, 2006... LISTENING TO MUSIC is the number-one rated leisure-time activity for American youth (Roberts et al., 1999a,b). Some music genres contain more references to substance use and social defiance than others. A recent study of music popular among...

To what extent is intoxication associated with aggression in bars? A multilevel analysis *.
May 1, 2006... AN ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ALCOHOL consumption and aggression has been found in experimental research (see Bushman, 1997), crime statistics (Graham and West, 2001; Pernanen et al., 2002), epidemiological and survey research (Wells and Graham,...

Sibling influence on alcohol use in a young adult, high-risk sample *.
May 1, 2006... SIBLINGS HAVE BEEN SHOWN to resemble each other in terms of alcohol use (Ary et al., 1993; Conger and Rueter, 1996), expectancies about alcohol use (D'Amico and Fromme, 1997), and endorsement of drinking motives (Windle, 2000). This resemblance...

Predicting negative drinking consequences: examining descriptive norm perception *.
May 1, 2006... COLLEGE STUDENTS WHO ENGAGE IN heavy episodic drinking are more likely to damage property and to experience impaired academic performance (Benton et al., 2004), unplanned and unsafe sexual activity (Perkins, 1992; Wechsler and Isaac, 1992),...

Effects of heavy drinking by maritime academy cadets on hangover, perceived sleep, and next-day ship power plant operation *.
May 1, 2006... ALTHOUGH THE EFFECTS OF even low doses of alcohol on occupational performance such as ship handling are documented (e.g., Howland et al., 2000, 2001), the effects of an evening of heavy drinking on performance the next morning (residual alcohol...

Physical and psychomotor functioning of females the morning after consuming low to moderate quantities of beer *.
May 1, 2006... IN NORTH AMERICA, 65%-73% of adults consume alcohol (World Health Organization, 1999), many of whom have a few drinks in the evening and go to work the next morning. Whereas the acute effects of alcohol are well known (Moskowitz and Fiorentino,...

Higher prevalence of systemic hypertension among moderate alcohol drinkers: an exploration of the role of underreporting *.
May 1, 2006... PERSONS REPORTING AN INTAKE of three or more standard-sized alcoholic drinks per day have an increased prevalence of systemic hypertension (HTN) in cross-sectional analyses and an increased incidence in prospective investigations. These...

Alcohol consumption and health-services utilization in Germany *.
May 1, 2006... ALCOHOL USE CONTRIBUTES to the high cost of health care. Heavy consumers of alcohol have been shown to underutilize medical services and delay seeking care until their condition has worsened and requires expensive treatment (Cherpitel, 1999)....

Preference-weighted health status associated with substance use-disorders treatment *.
May 1, 2006... SUBSTANCE USE-DISORDERS OUTCOMES affect a wide range of domains, including productivity, wages, fulfillment of societal responsibilities (e.g., as parent, partner, or spouse), social, criminal justice, mental and physical health, and health...

Alcohol consumption, alcoholics anonymous membership, and suicide mortality rates, Ontario, 1968-1991 *.
May 1, 2006... HEAVY DRINKERS AND ALCOHOLICS are more likely to die of accidental and violent causes than the general population (Mann et al., 1993; Pell and D'Alonzo, 1973; Schmidt and deLint, 1972). Many studies have demonstrated an important relationship...

Automated telephone screening for problem drinking *.
May 1, 2006... ALTHOUGH MORE THAN 18% of the population meet criteria for an alcohol disorder during their lifetime (Grant, 1997) and another 20% are engaged in problem drinking (Grant and Dawson, 1997), many of these people do not seek help (National...

Acculturation and driving under the influence: a study of repeat offenders *.
May 1, 2006... HISPANIC POPULATIONS in the United States may be particularly vulnerable to driving while intoxicated with alcohol. Hispanics are overrepresented among those arrested for driving under the influence (DUI) in California (Chang et al., 1996;...

Self-efficacy, therapeutic alliance, and alcohol-use disorder treatment outcomes *.
May 1, 2006... FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH alcohol-use disorders (AUDs), abstinence self-efficacy, or an individual's confidence in the ability to remain abstinent (Bandura, 1982), is hypothesized to be an important deterrent to relapse in high-risk situations...

The reliability and validity of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) in a German general practice population sample *.
May 1, 2006... ALTHOUGH IT IS KNOWN that frequent consumption of alcohol can be the cause of various health problems (e.g., neurological losses, liver dysfunction, and heart disease; Schuckit, 1998), the average intake of alcohol is quite high in Germany. The...

Success and failure in social norms interventions.(Correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2006... Dear Editor: In their recent Journal of Studies on Alcohol article, Perkins and associates (2005) examined the statistical relationship among normative perceptions of drinking and self-reported drinking behavior among college students. In...

Alcohol policy in Latin America.(CORRESPONDENCE)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2006... Dear Editor: In May 2005, the 58th World Health Assembly (WHA) of the World Health Organization (WHO) agreed on a resolution on "Public health problems caused by harmful use of alcohol," which urges member states to develop, implement, and...