Journal of Alcohol & Drug Education articles from September 2005

Journal of Alcohol & Drug Education archives from September 2005

Enhancing the effectiveness of alcohol and drug education programs through social cognitive theory.(EDITORIAL)
September 1, 2005... Use of theory in designing, implementing, and evaluating health education programs is becoming more and more important. Application of theory serves several significant functions: specifies methods for behavior change, helps in discerning...

Predictors of alcohol consumption in university residences.
September 1, 2005... Dear Editor: Alcohol use on university campuses is a significant social problem that has prompted a considerable amount of research (Lo, 1991; Peeler, Far, Miller, & Brigham, 2000). In general, it is thought that the use of alcohol is...

Drug abuse among young adults in Calcutta, India.
September 1, 2005... Dear Editor: Drug and alcohol abuse are an increasing trend in India since post-independent days. Loss of productivity, increase of crime and violence, spread of AIDS and other sex-related diseases are directly or indirectly associated...

Drinking games, binge drinking and risky sexual behaviors among college students.
September 1, 2005... Dear Editor: During the past few decades, there has been an increase in the number of investigations on the co-occurrence of drinking games and binge drinking on college campuses. Drinking games foster socialization by bringing different...

Comparing the AUDIT and 3 drinking indices as predictors of personal and social drinking problems in freshman first offenders.(Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test)
September 1, 2005... Abstract The current study of 376 college freshman adjudicated the first time for breaking university drinking rules tested the predictive power of four alcohol consumption and problem drinking indices--recent changes in drinking (the...

Validation of the Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire (AEQ-A) for Peruvian university students.
September 1, 2005... Abstract The paper describes the adaptation of the Adolescent version of the Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire (AEQ-A) for university students in Peru. 672 male and female university students enrolled in the first years at a private...

Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China.
September 1, 2005... Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs In China by Frank Dikotter, Lars Laamann, and Zhou Xun (2004) Chicago: The University of Chicago Press Reading newspapers, magazines or journals, you cannot help but recognize that the discipline of...