Recently added articles from Journal of Alcohol & Drug Education:
Taxation on alcohol: implications for health promotion.(EDITORIAL)
Aug 01, 2009; ... Taxation on alcohol is a common strategy used in health promotion to reduce sales and consumption of alcohol. The usual forms of taxes that are enforced on alcohol fall under the category of excise taxes. Excise taxes are indirect taxes imposed by national, state or local (county or city) ...
Reciprocal relations of protective behavioral strategies and risk-amplifying behaviors with alcohol-related consequences: targets for intervention with female college students.
Aug 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT Transactional associations of protective behavioral strategies (PBS) and risk-amplifying behaviors (RAB) to alcohol-related negative consequences were tested. A sample of 138 undergraduate women was assessed with self-report measures at two time points four months ...
Alcohol-related information in multi-component interventions and college students' drinking behavior.
Aug 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT Education-only interventions produce little change in drinking behaviors; but, multi-component prevention programs, which include alcohol information as one feature, can decrease drinking. This study examined the role of alcohol knowledge in a multi-component ...
The protected addiction: exploring staff beliefs toward integrating tobacco dependence into substance abuse treatment services.
Aug 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT Survey research was used to explore the beliefs of 963 staff members regarding the myths to treating tobacco dependence and the integration of tobacco dependence into substance abuse treatment programs. The staff represented a mixture of residential, outpatient, and ...
Prospective associations between alcohol and drug consumption and risky sex among female college students.(Clinical report)
Aug 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT Females who had vaginal sex were interviewed annually in their first two years of college (n=386, ages 17 to 20 at study outset) and asked about risky sex behaviors and substance use. In year one, [60.2%.sub.wt] had intoxicated sex, [31.4%.sub.wt] had multiple sex ...