Journal of Studies on Alcohol articles from November 2001

Journal of Studies on Alcohol archives from November 2001

Common genetic and environmental vulnerability for alcohol and tobacco use in a volunteer sample of older female twins *.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... THE RELATIONSHIP between tobacco and alcohol use has been of long-standing interest to researchers. Compared with the general population, smokers are more likely to drink alcohol and drinkers are more likely to smoke (Istvan and Matarazzo,...

Clomipramine increases the striatal concentrations of dopamine and homovanillic acid in rats chronically consuming alcohol.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... CHRONIC ALCOHOLISM is frequently associated with severe neurological and mental disorders (Nevo and Hamon, 1995). Ethanol induces cellular disturbances that may affect neurotransmitter availability, explaining some of the behavioral changes...

Effects of resveratrol, a flavinoid found in red wine, on infarct size in an experimental model of ischemia/reperfusion *.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... DESPITE NUMEROUS studies of the effects of alcohol on the heart, a number of ongoing controversies remain. Excess alcoholic consumption (on average, greater than three to four drinks per day) has been associated with alcoholic cardiomyopathy,...

Substance P and neurokinin levels are decreased in the cortex and hypothalamus of alcohol-preferring (P) rats *.
November 1, 2001... SUBSTANCE P (SP), neurokinin A (NKA), neurokinin B (NKB) and neurokinin K (NKK) are members of the tachykinin peptide family. This family is characterized by a carboxy-terminal amino acid sequence comprised of PheX-Gly-Leu-Met-NH2, where X is...

Alcohol consumption and academic performance in a population of Spanish high school students.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... A HIGH DEGREE of social tolerance for drinking has favored the spread of alcohol consumption among Spanish adolescents and young adults since the early 1990s. There has been a tendency, in young people, for drinking patterns to become...

Drinking in adulthood: similarities and differences in effects of adult roles for Hispanic ethnic groups and Anglos.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... IN THE PAST TWO DECADES, research has demonstrated that there are variations in drinking patterns among Hispanic ethnic groups (Black and Markides, 1993; Caetano, 1988, 1989; Nielsen, 2000). Despite these advances, little is known about the...

DUI-arrest characteristics among white and Mexican-American DUI offenders mandated for treatment *.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... ONE OF THE MOST important factors affecting 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...

Childhood and adolescent predictors of alcohol abuse and dependence in young adulthood *.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... AMONG ADOLESCENTS, alcohol is the most commonly used psychoactive drug. The 1999 Monitoring the Future national survey of secondary school students found that approximately 52% of 8th grade students, 71% of 10th grade students and 80% of 12th...

Adolescent alcohol expectancies in offspring from families at high risk for developing alcoholism *.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... THE ALCOHOL EXPECTANCY Questionnaire (AEQ) is among the most widely used instruments for measuring the beliefs individuals have about the effects of alcohol consumption. Two forms have been developed: an adolescent version (Christiansen et al.,...

Prospective risk factors for alcohol misuse in late adolescence *.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... BY THE TIME they reach the 12th grade, more than 80% of American students have tried alcohol (Johnston et al., 1998). Widespread experimentation with alcohol, combined with relatively easy access (Wagenaar et al., 1996) and social norms...

The effects of alcohol consumption on mortality and morbidity: a 26-year follow-up study *.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... AN ASSOCIATION between alcohol consumption and decreased mortality rate has been demonstrated for moderate consumers of alcohol (Poikolainen, 1995; Thun et al., 1997). This effect is largely due to a reduced risk of fatal coronary heart disease...

Alcohol and mortality from external causes.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... THE ASSOCIATION between alcohol consumption and deaths from external causes--unintentional injuries, suicide and homicide--has been documented in studies utilizing a variety of study designs. Most have simply described the proportion of deaths...

A signal detection approach to the combined effects of work stressors on alcohol consumption.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... NUMEROUS STUDIES of alcohol intake have suggested a relationship between work stress and alcohol consumption (Bromet et al., 1988; Hingson et al., 1981; Seeman and Anderson, 1983; Seeman et al., 1988). Thus far, the belief that work stress...

Evaluating the effects of a brief motivational intervention for injured drinkers in the Emergency Department *.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... IN 1993, Bien et al. published a meta-analysis of the effectiveness of brief interventions for problem drinkers. These authors concluded that (1) brief interventions are more effective than standard care or no intervention in reducing alcohol...

A longitudinal model of intake symptomatology, AA participation and outcome: retrospective study of the Project MATCH outpatient and aftercare samples *.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... NUMEROUS STUDIES HAVE EXAMINED client characteristics that predict affiliation in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), and how engagement in AA predicts subsequent improvement (for reviews, see Emrick et al., 1993, and Tonigan et al., 1996b). In general,...

The relationship between alcohol screening questionnaires and mortality among male veteran outpatients *.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... EXTENSIVE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL evidence has demonstrated that heavy drinking is associated with increased risk of mortality (Holman et al., 1996; Poikolainen, 1995; Rehm and Sempos, 1995; Thun et al., 1997). The exact threshold for alcohol...

Invariance of the MAST across religious groups *.(Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test, Mauritius)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... THE MICHIGAN ALCOHOLISM SCREENING TEST (MAST; Seizer, 1971) is a commonly used screening instrument designed to assess psychological, physical and psychosocial problems associated with the use of alcohol. In factor analyses of the MAST in...

Confirmatory factor analyses of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) among adolescents treated in emergency departments *.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... ADOLESCENTS TREATED in emergency departments (EDs) are at higher risk for developing alcohol use disorders compared with adolescents in the general population. Chung and colleagues (2000) reported a DSM-IV (American Psychiatric Association,...

Editorial referees.
November 1, 2001... Articles submitted for publication in the Journal are reviewed by editorial referees whose counsel and critique weigh heavily in determining which papers are accepted and what their published content will be. Most of the scientists and scholars...

Annual index: volume 62, 2001.
November 1, 2001... ANNUAL INDEX: VOLUME 62, 2001 Authors * Indicates a book reviewer ** Indicates a correspondent Abbott, R.D. 179,754 Adamson, S.J. 389 Adlaf, E. ...