Journal of Studies on Alcohol articles from November 2006

Journal of Studies on Alcohol archives from November 2006

Editor's corner: the future is now.(Journal of Studies on Alcohol)(Editorial)
November 1, 2006... JANUARY 2007 WILL MARK a host of changes for the Journal of Studies on Alcohol. Each of these steps forward reflects our efforts to keep the Journal as timely and informative as possible, while supplying our authors and readers with optimal...

Alcohol abuse and dependence in college and noncollege samples: a ten-year prospective follow-up in a national survey *.
November 1, 2006... CONSPICUOUS ATTENTION HAS BEEN GIVEN recently to the consequences of excessive drinking by college students (College Task Force, 2002; Wechsler et al., 2002). That attention is certainly warranted. In 2001, 600,000 college students were...

Increases in alcohol and marijuana use during the transition out of high school into emerging adulthood: the effects of leaving home, going to college, and high school protective factors *.
November 1, 2006... THE TRANSITION OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL is one of the most critical passages in life because of pronounced changes in social environment and role responsibilities (Newcomb and Bentler, 1987). Increases in substance use are evident during this...

Drinking in the year after treatment as a predictor of three-year drinking outcomes *.
November 1, 2006... TREATMENT FOR ALCOHOL-USE DISORDERS (AUDs), at least in the United States, and self-help organizations such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) aim to help individuals to achieve and sustain abstinence from alcohol and other drug use. Consistent with...

Premenstrual symptomatology, alcohol consumption, and family history of alcoholism in women with premenstrual syndrome *.
November 1, 2006... PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME (PMS) has been recognized for more than 40 years as a cluster of emotional and physical symptoms that occurs during the luteal phase of menstruation, approximately 1 week before the start of menses, and then disappears...

Alcohol consumption and symptoms of depression in young adults from 20 countries *.
November 1, 2006... THERE IS SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE that high alcohol consumption is associated with depression and psychological distress (Regier et al., 1990). But in recent years, evidence has emerged to suggest that the relationship between alcohol and...

An evaluation of the performance of the self-rating of the effects of alcohol questionnaire in 12- and 35-year-old subjects *.
November 1, 2006... THE LOW LEVEL OF RESPONSE (LR) TO alcohol is an important genetically influenced characteristic that predicts heavy drinking and alcohol-related problems, including alcohol-use disorders (AUDs; Barr et al., 2003; Heath et al., 1999; Schuckit,...

Memory and perseveration on a win-stay, lose-shift task in rats exposed neonatally to alcohol *.
November 1, 2006... PRENATAL ALCOHOL EXPOSURE CAN HAVE a variety of effects on development, ranging from fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS; Jones and Smith, 1973) to subtle cognitive deficiencies without the characteristic physical features of FAS (Mattson and Riley,...

Hypercortisolism in alcohol dependence and its relation to hippocampal volume loss *.
November 1, 2006... EARLY STUDIES OF ALCOHOL USE and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis noted an increase in cortisol production among chronic heavy drinkers. This was manifested clinically by apparent adrenal insufficiency or a pseudo-Cushing's...

A multisite randomized trial of social norms marketing campaigns to reduce college student drinking *.
November 1, 2006... RESEARCHERS HAVE SHOWN THAT COLLEGE students greatly overestimate the percentage of their peers who drink heavily (Baer et al., 1991; Borsari and Carey, 2003; Perkins and Berkowitz, 1986). A recent study demonstrated such misperceptions at more...

A successful social norms campaign to reduce alcohol misuse among college student-athletes *.
November 1, 2006... THERE CAN BE LITTLE DOUBT that heavy alcohol consumption on college campuses and its many negative effects constitute one of the most persistent and challenging problems facing most institutions of higher education (Perkins, 2002a). Identifying...

The effect of alcohol consumption on emergency department services use among injured patients: a cross-national emergency room study *.
November 1, 2006... EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT (ED) STUDIES in the United States have found that substantial proportions of both injured and noninjured patients report frequent use of the ED. One study found more than half of the ED patients in a county reported prior...

Reclassifying DIS-III-R alcohol use disorders to DSM-IV criteria in a sample of convicted impaired drivers *.(Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)
November 1, 2006... THE AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION publishes the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), which provides diagnostic categories and criteria for their diagnoses. Substance abuse and substance dependence criteria were...

Alcohol, illegal drugs, violent crime, and traffic-related and other unintended injuries in U.S. local and national news *.
November 1, 2006... FEW APPROACHES ARE MORE EFFECTIVE in reducing misuse of alcohol and illegal drugs than the passage and enforcement of substance control policies (Toomey and Wagenaar, 2003). In turn, the importance of news coverage in influencing public...

Spring break trips as a risk factor for heavy alcohol use among first-year college students *.
November 1, 2006... BECAUSE OF THE HIGH PREVALENCE and consequences of heavy drinking among college students (e.g., Johnston et al., 2005; Perkins, 2002), identifying situational factors that promote excessive alcohol use, as well as those most vulnerable to these...

A multidimensional developmental model of alcohol use during emerging adulthood *.
November 1, 2006... YOUNG PEOPLE TEND TO ENGAGE 1N HIGHER levels of substance use and other risky behaviors from the late teens through the mid-20s than at any other age period. Concerning alcohol in particular, the scientific consensus is that both use rates and...

Activating action tendencies: the influence of action priming on alcohol consumption among male hazardous drinkers *.
November 1, 2006... DOES THE SELF-CONTROL OF ALCOHOL USE become more difficult after the first drink? Researchers from a variety of disciplines have attempted to understand the conditions under which alcohol consumption may be associated with self-control failure...

The impact of alcohol taxation on liver cirrhosis mortality *.
November 1, 2006... THIS ARTICLE PRESENTS EVIDENCE concerning the role of alcohol taxation in the determination of aggregate mortality rates due to cirrhosis of the liver. Numerous studies have demonstrated that alcohol taxes or prices affect total alcohol...

One small step for manuals: computer-assisted training in twelve-step facilitation *.
November 1, 2006... FOR MANY YEARS, treatment approaches based on the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous and Cocaine Anonymous were widely used and very popular in the treatment community but had comparatively little empirical support from controlled clinical trials...