Journal of Studies on Alcohol articles from November 1999

Journal of Studies on Alcohol archives from November 1999

The U-Shaped Curve: Various Health Measures and Alcohol Drinking Patterns.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 1999... MANY STUDIES have focused on the explanation of the relationship between alcohol consumption and health. It is well known that (heavy) alcohol consumption is linked to adverse outcomes such as liver cirrhosis, road accidents and suicide (Gordon...

Beer Drinking Accounts for Most of the Hazardous Alcohol Consumption Reported in the United States.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 1999... COMPARISONS of health outcomes associated with consumption of different alcoholic beverages have stirred controversy at times, with findings suggesting that moderate drinking of a particular beverage (beer, wine or spirits) is associated with...

Does Social Integration Confound the Relation between Alcohol Consumption and Mortality in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT)?(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 1999... THE RELATIONSHIP between alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality is a function of the distribution of the causes of death within the examined population and the risk curves for different causes of mortality (Anderson, 1995, 1996; Rehm et...

The Validity of DSM-IV Alcohol Abuse: Drunk Drivers versus All Others(*).
November 1, 1999... ALCOHOL ABUSE was first formally differentiated from alcohol dependence with the publication of DSM-III in 1980 (American Psychiatric Association, 1980). At the time that DSM-III was published, the grounds for the abuse/dependence distinction...

What is the Price of Perfection? The Hidden Costs of Using Detailed Assessment Instruments to Measure Alcohol Consumption.
November 1, 1999... IT IS A TRUISM in research that the more reliable and detailed baseline information that can be gathered about a phenomenon, the more likely investigators are to make valid inferences about Causes and consequences. Such a rule is definitely...

The Causal Relationship between Socioeconomic Factors and Alcohol Consumption: A Granger-Causality Time Series Analysis, 1950-1993(*).(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 1999... ALCOHOL RESEARCHERS have addressed the specific relationship between economic factors and alcohol consumption in several recent publications (French and Zarkin, 1995; Heien, 1996a,b; Miron, 1997). In general, the conclusion reached in these...

At-Risk Drinkers in the Household and Short-Term Course of Alcohol Dependence(*).(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 1999... CONTEXTUAL FACTORS have become increasingly important in the understanding of various behavioral phenomenon. Such a perspective is consistent with theoretical models that focus on factors external to the individual as causative agents in the...

Experimentally Induced Aggressiveness in Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOAs): Preliminary Behavioral and Neuroendocrine Findings(*).
November 1, 1999... THE POPULATION at risk for alcoholism, and particularly that of adults who grew up with alcoholic parents, has been studied by many researchers with a variety of disciplinary approaches (Cermak and Brown, 1982; D'Andrea et al., 1994; Van der...

Evaluation of the Self-Rating of the Effects of Alcohol Form in Asian Americans with Aldehyde Dehydrogenase Polymorphisms(*).(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 1999... EARLY ALCOHOL CHALLENGE studies demonstrated large individual differences in response to alcohol (Jellinek and McFarland, 1940; Victor and Adams, 1953), but the importance of level of response to alcohol as a vulnerability factor associated...

The Spanish Alcohol Use Disorder and Associated Disabilities Interview Schedule (AUDADIS): Reliability and Concordance with Clinical Diagnoses in a Hispanic Population(*).(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 1999... THE APPLICATION of consistent diagnostic and examination methods is particularly pertinent in the cross-cultural study of substance abuse and dependence. Members of different societies differ in how they view substance consumption, in their...

The Epidemiology of Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Use among Black Youth(*).
November 1, 1999... DESPITE AN ABUNDANCE of research on white adolescent's use of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana and other drugs, there is a paucity of information on the prevalence, trends and correlates of drug use specific to the nation's largest minority...

Alcoholics Anonymous Affiliation at Treatment Intake among White and Black Americans(*).(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 1999... THERE IS considerable interplay between the self-help sector and formal alcohol treatment system. For example, many treatment programs introduce their clients to the self-help group Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and recommend AA as part of...

Children's Perceptions of Parental Drinking: The Eye of the Beholder(*).
November 1, 1999... NUMEROUS INVESTIGATORS have shown evidence of an observational learning model of children's acquisition of drinking behavior (cf., Akers, 1977; Casswell et al., 1983; Christiansen et al., 1989; Donovan and Marlatt, 1980; Jahoda et al., 1980;...

Gender Differences in the Relationships among SES, Family History of Alcohol Disorders and Alcohol Dependence(*).(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 1999... THE OBSERVATION that alcoholism is more frequently found in some families than in others is not new (e.g., Blueler, 1955). Likewise, inverse relationships between socioeconomic status (SES) and alcoholism and alcohol-related problems have been...

Knowledge of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) among Natives in Northern Manitoba.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 1999... FOR THE PAST several years there has been extensive: media coverage and public education about fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and the dangers of alcohol use during pregnancy. As a result, there have been increases in knowledge about FAS among...

An Outcome Evaluation to Measure Changes in Sexual Risk-Taking among Gay Men Undergoing Substance Use Disorder Treatment(*).
November 1, 1999... GAY MEN who present for treatment of substance use disorders are a population at extremely high risk for the sexual transmission of HIV. Rates of high-risk sex among men from San Francisco in treatment for substance use disorders in the early...

Effects of Executive Function Impairment on Change Processes and Substance Use Outcomes in 12-Step Treatment(*).
November 1, 1999... SUBSTANCE USE is a major public health problem with almost one in four Americans reporting the occurrence of a problem at some point in their lives (Kessler et al., 1994). Despite several decades of treatment research efforts, and much...

Effectiveness of Treatment for Substance Abuse and Dependence for Dual Diagnosis Patients: A Model of Treatment Factors Associated with One-Year Outcomes(*).
November 1, 1999... ABOUT ONE THIRD of individuals with alcohol use disorders and one half of individuals with drug use disorders have a comorbid psychiatric diagnosis (Regier et al., 1990). These "dually diagnosed" individuals seek treatment services more often...

Lifetime Use of Professional and Community Services for Help with Drinking: Results from a Canadian Population Survey(*).
November 1, 1999... POPULATION STUDIES of the lifetime use of resources to help with drinking are needed to plan new services and to evaluate existing service arrangements. Information on the prevalence of lifetime service use can be used to project future demands...

Effects of Moderate Doses of Alcohol on Immediate Recall of Numbers: Some Implications for Information Technology.
November 1, 1999... THE RAPID GROWTH of electronic information technology (IT) in all areas of society, in both professional and leisure applications, has resulted in a proliferation of self-service terminals and service. Even mundane activities, such as unlocking...

Differential Effects of Alcohol on Rod and Cone Temporal Processing(*).
November 1, 1999... ONE OF THE MOST common tests of temporal resolution in the visual system is the critical flicker fusion frequency (CFF). The CFF refers to the highest frequency at which a light can be flashed on and off before an observer reports it to be...

Substance Abuse on Campus: A Handbook for College and University Personnel.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Substance Abuse on Campus: A Handbook for College and University Personnel, by P. Clayton Rivers and Elsie R. Shore (Eds.). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997, 277 + xvi pages, $69.50 (cloth). Substance use on college campuses has become a...

Fetal Alcohol Abuse Syndrome.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Fetal Alcohol Abuse Syndrome, by Ernest L. Abel. New York: Plenum Press, 1998, 260 + xi pages, $42.50 (cloth). For many years, Ernest L. Abel has been one of the experts "writing the book" about fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). His earlier...