Journal of Studies on Alcohol articles from November 2005

Journal of Studies on Alcohol archives from November 2005

Cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships between alcohol consumption and lipids, blood pressure and body weight indices *.
November 1, 2005... AN OVERWHELMING NUMBER of ecological, case-control and cohort studies have given consistent indications for a U-shaped relationship of alcohol consumption with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) and coronary heart disease (CHD). The reduced risk...

Heavy and nonheavy drinking occasions, all-cause and cardiovascular mortality and hospitalizations: a follow-up study in a population with a low consumption level *.
November 1, 2005... Previous LITERATURE HAS ESTABLISHED A U-shaped curve between ischemic heart disease (IHD) and the volume of alcohol consumed: moderate consumption yields the lowest risk of IHD. This relationship results in a J-shaped curve between alcohol...

Effects of early and later marriage on women's alcohol use in young adulthood: a prospective analysis *.
November 1, 2005... THE BENEFICIAL EFFECTS of marriage have been demonstrated across a number of mental and physical health domains (e.g., Gallo et al., 2003; Johnson et al., 2000; Kiecolt-Glaser and Newton, 2001). At least in part, the effects of marriage on...

Alcohol elimination at low blood concentrations among women taking combined oral contraceptives.
November 1, 2005... EVIDENCE SUGGESTING A ROLE of natural and synthetic estrogens and/or progestin on ethanol pharmacokinetics can be traced back to the initial reports of large metabolic differences among women, both natural-cycling and those taking oral...

Drinking trajectories from adolescence to the mid-forties among alcohol dependent males *.
November 1, 2005... THAT THERE MAY BE MULTIPLE alcoholisms has been discussed in both the clinical and the empirical literature for much of the past five decades (Babor et al., 1992; Cloninger, 1987; Zucker, 1994). Proposed typologies have been organized around...

Sequencing the lifetime onset of alcohol-related symptoms in older adults: is there evidence of disease progression? *.
November 1, 2005... A PERSISTENT ISSUE in the field of alcohol-use disorders is whether these disorders can be characterized in terms of a disease-progression model, which specifies that symptoms develop in an orderly fashion and that the presence of a particular...

Processes linking adolescent problems to substance-use problems in late young adulthood *.
November 1, 2005... APPROXIMATELY 25% OF U.S. ADULTS suffer from alcohol abuse or dependence, and 12% are either drug abusers or drug dependent (e.g., Chassin et al., 1999; Kessler et al., 1994; e.g., Kushner et al., 1999). The societal costs include decreased...

Risk factors for frequent high alcohol consumption among Swedish secondary-school students *.
November 1, 2005... HEAVY EPISODIC DRINKING is one of the most prevalent harmful practices among adolescents in Europe and the Americas, resulting in emergency room visits, negative personal relationships, and not least of all--mental suffering. It has been shown...

Part-time work and adolescent heavy episodic drinking: the influence of family and community context.
November 1, 2005... THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN part-time work during the school year and use of substances such as alcohol has been described as one of the most consistent findings in research on youth and work (National Research Council, 1998). Little research,...

Incidence rates for alcohol dependence among adults: prospective data from the Baltimore epidemiologic catchment area follow-up survey, 1981-1996 *.
November 1, 2005... POPULATION-BASED PROSPECTIVE STUDIES provide critical information regarding the natural history of alcohol dependence irrespective of treatment status and are necessary for providing reliable information on the incidence or new development of...

Overserving at licensed premises in Stockholm: effects of a community action program *.
November 1, 2005... ABSTRACT. Objective: The aim of this research was to study the sustainable effects of a community action program on alcohol service to intoxicated patrons at licensed premises. Method: Since 1996, the hospitality industry and authorities in...

"So I can't blame the booze?": Dispositional aggressivity negates the moderating effects of expectancies on alcohol-related aggression *.
November 1, 2005... ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION IS RELATED to interpersonal aggression (reviewed in Bushman and Cooper, 1990; Ito et al., 1996). This association has been documented by both correlational and experimental studies. Correlational research has found alcohol...

An examination of how therapist directiveness interacts with patient anger and reactance to predict alcohol use *.
November 1, 2005... THE CONSTRUCT OF DIRECTIVENESS historically has been given multiple meanings in the psychotherapy and counseling fields. Early psychotherapy research characterized directiveness as leading the client (Ashby et al., 1957) or controlling the...

The efficacy of compliance therapy in pharmacotherapy for alcohol dependence: a randomized controlled trial *.
November 1, 2005... THERE IS CONSIDERABLE EVIDENCE that lack of compliance (also termed "adherence") limits the effectiveness of treatment for many disorders. For example, O'Brien and McLellan (1996) reported that compliance with medication regimens for diabetes...

Readmission among chemical dependency patients in private, outpatient treatment: patterns, correlates and role in long-term outcome *.
November 1, 2005... ALCOHOL AND DRUG DEPENDENCE is often a chronic, relapsing condition, similar to other chronic conditions such as diabetes and hypertension. Just as patients with other chronic diseases require ongoing monitoring and care, alcohol and drug...

Beliefs as a predictor of relapse in alcohol-dependent Turkish men.
November 1, 2005... BASIC COGNITIVE THERAPY MODELS of substance use were developed by Liese, Beck, Newman, and Wright (Beck et al., 1993; Liese and Franz, 1996). According to the cognitive model of alcoholism of Beck et al., dysfunctional beliefs play a role in...