Journal of Studies on Alcohol articles from November 2003

Journal of Studies on Alcohol archives from November 2003

Risk factors that predicted problem drinking in Danish men at age thirty *.
November 1, 2003... KNOWLEDGE ABOUT the specific etiology or etiologies of alcoholism is still limited, despite extensive research focused on this condition. There appear to be three main reasons why the etiology of alcoholism is not better understood. First, most...

The role of women's substance use in vulnerability to forcible and incapacitated rape *.
November 1, 2003... IN MANY STATES, legal statutes define rape as unwanted intercourse that occurs as a result of (1) force or threat of force, (2) the victim being physically unable to indicate lack of consent (e.g., due to intoxication) or (3) the victim being...

Characteristics of violent bars and bar patrons *.
November 1, 2003... RECENT RESEARCH has identified the bar environment as a common location for individuals to experience violence. Quigley et al. (2002) found that 13% of male college students and 3% of female college students reported being in a physical fight...

Alcohol use in pregnant low-income women *.
November 1, 2003... MODERATE TO HEAVY alcohol use by women during pregnancy has been associated with profound negative reproductive, infant and child health outcomes, including fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and other alcohol-related neurodevelopmental deficits...

Alcohol consumption and marital status of French women in the GAZEL cohort: a longitudinal analysis between 1992 and 1996.
November 1, 2003... NUMEROUS STUDIES have shown that a woman's marital status is associated with her alcohol consumption. Heavy drinkers are found more frequently among unmarried women than among wives and widows, and, although divorced women are sometimes found...

Gender comparison of alcohol exposure on drinking occasions *.
November 1, 2003... EXISTING RESEARCH SUPPORTS the theory that women have an increased susceptibility to the potentially harmful health consequences of chronic alcohol consumption. Female alcoholics, for example, have been reported to experience a greater...

Ethanol-induced advance in the onset of puberty is prevented by the GAB[A.sub.A] antagonist bicuculline in female rats *.
November 1, 2003... THE ONSET of puberty in female rats that normally occurs around Day 35 is delayed when alcohol is administered in either the prenatal state (Creighton-Taylor and Rudeen, 1991; McGivern and Yellon, 1992) or after Day 20 of postnatal age (Bo et...

Actions of ethanol on epidermal growth factor receptor activated luteinizing hormone secretion *.( )
November 1, 2003... THE EPIDERMAL GROWTH factor receptor (EGF-R) is one of the members of the ErbB family of tyrosine kinase receptors (for review, see Carpenter and Cohen, 1990) that are activated by EGF and the transforming growth factor [alpha] (TGF[alpha])....

Drinking to extremes: theoretical and empirical analyses of peak drinking levels among college students *.
November 1, 2003... HEAVY DRINKING among college students places them at greater risks for a variety of problem outcomes. At the highest drinking levels, these risks include alcohol overdoses and physical harm related to the extreme impairment in judgment and...

Negative consequences of intercollegiate athlete drinking: the role of drinking motives *.
November 1, 2003... INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETES are a subgroup of college students who are particularly susceptible to excessive alcohol use, with studies finding that intercollegiate athletes averaged more drinks per week and engaged in more frequent heavy episodic...

Perceived social norms and their relation to university student drinking *.
November 1, 2003... SEVERAL STUDIES, all of them conducted in the United States, suggest that college students tend to overestimate levels of drinking among their peers. An important finding of these studies is that individuals who overestimate social norms often...

Malt liquor use, heavy/problem drinking and other problem behaviors in a sample of community college students *.
November 1, 2003... CONSUMPTION OF high-alcohol-content malt liquor by adolescents and young adults has been a growing concern of health advocacy groups, despite limited empirical research to support this concern. Malt liquor is packaged in larger containers than...

The influence of race and religion on abstinence from alcohol, cigarettes and marijuana among adolescents *.
November 1, 2003... SUBSTANCE USE is widespread among American adolescents. In fact, by the time they graduate from high school, most have used alcohol (80%), tobacco (61%) and marijuana (54%) (Johnston et al., 2002). Because of the widespread use of alcohol and...

The costs of screening and brief intervention for risky alcohol use *.
November 1, 2003... ALCOHOL ABUSE was estimated to cost the United States $184.6 billion in 1998 (Harwood et al., 2000). The enormous social costs of alcohol abuse make it a major concern among policy makers and health care professionals. However, estimates based...

Comparison of a quick drinking screen with the Timeline Followback for individuals with alcohol problems *.
November 1, 2003... AN ARRAY of retrospective self-report drinking measures have been developed and evaluated over the past several decades. These measures have been reviewed on several occasions (Alanko, 1984; Allen and Columbus, 1995; Allen and Wilson, 2003;...

The role of community services and informal support on five-year drinking trajectories of alcohol dependent and problem drinkers *.
November 1, 2003... UNDERSTAND1NG THE ROLES community services and social networks play in the course of drinking could have important implications for clinical and community-level interventions. Numerous studies have demonstrated the importance of treatment over...

Positive and negative effects of social support on the relationship between work stress and alcohol consumption *.
November 1, 2003... IN EVALUATING the work stress-alcohol relationship, it is necessary to pay careful attention to work stress-alcohol modeling. Because the strength of the relationship between work stress and alcohol use differs as a function of the level of...

Alcohol consumption by elderly Americans.
November 1, 2003... THE ELDERLY POPULATION of the United States is rapidly expanding. In the year 2000, about 35 million Americans were age 65 years or older (Bureau of the Census, 2000). It is estimated that by the year 2020, 54 million, or one person in six,...

Dying to Drink: Confronting Binge Drinking on College Campuses.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... by Henry Wechsler and Bernice Wuethrich. Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press, 2002, 320 + xiv pages, $24.95 (cloth), $14.95 (paper). Henry Wechsler, whose Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study has provided national data on the...

Addiction and Change: How Addictions Develop and Addicted People Recover.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... by Carlo C. DiClemente. New York: Guilford Press, 2003, 317 + xviii pages, $35.00 (cloth). In this book, DiClemente argues that a fully articulated Transtheoretical Model (TTM; DiClemente and Prochaska, 1998; Prochaska and DiClemente,...