Journal of Studies on Alcohol articles from November 2002

Journal of Studies on Alcohol archives from November 2002

Permission to cross the border: effective policy reduces high-risk drinking by marines *.
November 1, 2002... DESPITE THE ADOPTION of age-21 minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) laws in all 50 states (O'Malley and Wagenaar, 1991; Toomey et al., 1996), U.S. military bases abroad generally serve alcohol to underage military personnel on base in an effort to...

Treating alcohol problems with self-help materials: a population study *.
November 1, 2002... ALTHOUGH THE MAJORITY of problem drinkers do Not seek formal treatment, many are interested in self-help interventions (Cunningham et al., 1999; Koski-Jannes and Cunningham, 2001; Werch, 1990). Because self-help interventions circumvent some of...

Enhancing the effectiveness of traditional interventions with drinking drivers by adding brief individual intervention components *.
November 1, 2002... MATCHING INDIVIDUALS to effective interventions--based on personal characteristics, problems and risk factors--has been a major though elusive goal, not only for improving the effectiveness of alcohol treatment (Project Match Research Group,...

Examining mechanisms of action in 12-step treatment: the role of 12-step cognitions *.(Abstract)
November 1, 2002... ABOUT, ONE MILLION AMERICANS enter specialty care treatment for a substance use disorder each year (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 1999). The overwhelming majority of these individuals attend programs that provide...

Who goes to alcohol and drug treatment? Understanding utilization within the context of insurance *.
November 1, 2002... FACTORS GOVERNING the decision to enter treatment for alcohol and drug problems often differ from those governing the decision to seek treatment for other health conditions. Theories of help seeking and utilization from the medical literature...

Physical and sexual abuse history and addiction treatment outcomes *.
November 1, 2002... THE MAJORITY OF WOMEN and a significant minority of men seeking treatment for substance use disorders (SUDs) are survivors of either physical or sexual abuse (Dansky et al., 1996; Najavits et al., 1997, 1998a; Ouimette et al., 2000a). Among SUD...

Alcohol's direct and indirect effects on men's self-reported sexual aggression likelihood *.
November 1, 2002... RESEARCH FINDINGS consistently show that both alcohol consumption by a perpetrator (Abbey et al., 1998; Koss, 1988; Muehlenhard and Linton, 1987) and the use of violent pornography (Malamuth, 1984) are associated with sexual assault. The study...

Alcohol-related aggression in men and women: the influence of dispositional aggressivity *.
November 1, 2002... THE RELATION between alcohol consumption and interpersonal aggression is well documented by both correlational and experimental studies (reviewed in Bushman and Cooper, 1990; Chermack and Giancola, 1997; Ito et al., 1996). Survey studies have...

Psychiatric comorbidity, continuing care and mutual help as predictors of five-year remission from substance use disorders *.
November 1, 2002... DESPITE THE EFFORTS of treatment providers and patients themselves, only a minority of individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs) are able to achieve lasting remission after intensive treatment (Finney et al., 1999). Given the devastating...

Predictors of contact with public service sectors among homeless adults with and without alcohol and other drug disorders *.
November 1, 2002... SURVEYS OF HOMELESS PEOPLE have documented disproportionately high rates of alcohol and drug dependence (Fischer and Breakey, 1991; Koegel and Bumam, 1988; Koegel et al., 1999; Robertson et al., 1997; Smith et al., 1992), suggesting that one...

Attendance and alcohol use at parties and bars in college: a national survey of current drinkers *.
November 1, 2002... FOR THE MAJORITY of college students, alcohol consumption is an important aspect of the college experience, and information on the extent of drinking in different social situations can contribute to the understanding of drinking patterns and...

Recent drinking history: association with family history of alcoholism and the acute response to alcohol during a 60 mg% clamp *.
November 1, 2002... STUDIES INVESTIGATING the influence of family history of alcoholism (FHA) on the acute response to alcohol, both initial and adaptive, could be confounded by the drinking history of subjects. Previous studies have shown an increased drinking...

Does caffeine counteract alcohol-induced impairment? The ironic effects of expectancy *.
November 1, 2002... THE TERM "EXPECTANCY" refers to the acquisition of information about the relationship between events (Bolles, 1972; Kirsch, 1999). When an association between two events is learned, the first event is said to elicit an expectancy of the second...

Mode effects for collecting alcohol and other drug use data: Web and U.S. Mail *.
November 1, 2002... RESEARCHERS FROM A WIDE variety of disciplines increasingly use the Web for collecting and disseminating information' regarding alcohol and other drug use. Several new prevention and intervention efforts targeting adolescent health behaviors...

Are retrospectively reconstructed blood alcohol concentrations accurate? Preliminary results from a field study *.
November 1, 2002... THE DEBATE ABOUT the utility of heavy episodic drinking as a marker of risky drinking on college campuses (e.g., DeJong, 2001; Wechsler and Nelson, 2001) has led some researchers to search for alternate markers of risk. One alternative is the...

Effects of alcohol misuse on gambling patterns in youth *.
November 1, 2002... GAMBLING AND ALCOHOL USE are both prevalent behaviors among youth (Barnes et al., 1999). Griffiths (1995) summarized data from 12 questionnaire surveys of youthful gambling in various areas of the United States and found that 75% of the...

Managing Addictions: Cognitive, Emotive and Behavioral Techniques.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... by F. Michler Bishop. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 2001, 483 + xvii pages, $60.00 (cloth). Over the last two decades of the 20th century clinical research on the treatment of alcohol and other drug problems has consistently found...

Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick. New York: Guilford Press, 2002, 428 + xx pages, $35.00 (cloth). The publication of the first edition of Motivational Interviewing (Miller and Rollnick, 1991) represented a salient shift in thinking...