Recently added articles from Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs:
Alcohol use and its role in female homicides in the Western Cape, South Africa.(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ALCOHOL and interpersonal violence is well established (Room et al., 2005). Alcohol consumption increases men's risk of violence perpetration and men and women's risk of becoming a victim of violence (World Health Organization, 2006). This relationship appears to ...
Effect of alcohol on race-biased responding: the moderating role of internal and external motivations to respond without prejudice.(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... ANECDOTAL ACCOUNTS suggest that horrendous expressions of racial prejudice (e.g., lynchings) might be fueled by the intoxication of individuals whose inclinations to engage in such behavior would ordinarily be restrained. In a similar vein, systematic empirical investigations (e.g., ...
Ethnicity and adolescent pathways to alcohol use.(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... THE INITIATION OF REGULAR DRINKING and the ages at peak quantity and frequency of drinking typically occur during adolescence and early adulthood (Chen et al., 2004/2005; O'Malley et al., 1998). Importantly, adolescents whose biological parent(s) has (have) a history of alcohol dependence ...
The earlier the more? Differences in the links between age at first drink and adolescent alcohol use and related problems according to quality of parent-child relationships.(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... MANY STUDIES HAVE DOCUMENTED negative associations between age at first drink (AFD) and a variety of negative outcomes, including heavy drinking in adolescence and adulthood (DeWit et al., 2000; Fergusson et al., 1994; Grant and Dawson, 1997; Gruber et al., 1996; Hawkins et al., 1997; ...
Alcohol consumption, sleep, and academic performance among college students.(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... TWO FORMS OF UNHEALTHFUL BEHAVIOR that are well documented among college students are heavy alcohol use (Wechsler and Wuethrich, 2002) and insufficient and irregular sleep (Buboltz et al., 2006). Both heavy alcohol consumption and unhealthy sleep habits are associated with various ...
Social learning theory and the effects of living arrangement on heavy alcohol use: results from a national study of college students.(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... HEAVY ALCOHOL USE among college students continues to be a pressing public health concern (Wechsler et al., 1994, 2000, 2002). Numerous studies have documented high rates of risky alcohol use in this population (O'Malley and Johnston, 2002; White et al., 2006), with approximately 37% of ...
Self-regulation, alcohol consumption, and consequences in college student heavy drinkers: a simultaneous latent growth analysis.(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... COLLEGE STUDENT DRINKING is frequently characterized by heavy episodic consumption, often defined as the consumption of five drinks for male (four drinks for female) students at one sitting (Wechsler et al., 1995). Traditionally college students consume more alcohol per drinking occasion ...
Effects of alcohol consumption in spousal relationships on health-related quality of life and life satisfaction.(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... THE RANGE OF HEALTH-RELATED HARMS associated with alcohol consumption are increasingly well understood, with studies such as the Global Burden of Disease (Rehm et al., 2003), which measures and quantifies alcohol's role in hospitalization and mortality. Similarly, the tradition of studies ...
Marijuana primes, marijuana expectancies, and arithmetic efficiency.(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... MARIJUANA IS THE ILLICIT DRUG most commonly used by American youth. In a nationally representative survey, more than half (52.4%) of those ages 18-25 reported having used marijuana at least once (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration, 2007). Research has shown that marijuana ...
A finer examination of the role that negative affect plays in the relationship between paternal alcoholism and the onset of alcohol and marijuana use.(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... CHILDREN WHO HAVE A PARENT with a substance-use disorder have an elevated risk of using alcohol and drugs and developing substance-use problems (Chassin et al., 2004; Ohannessian et al., 2005). Moreover, differences in substance use between children who have a parent with a substance-use ...
The role of marijuana use in brief motivational intervention with young adult drinkers treated in an emergency department.(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... RATES OF MARIJUANA AND ALCOHOL USE are highest among older adolescents and young adults (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2007b), and the emergency department (ED) is a medical setting where young adults are often seen when experiencing substance-related events ...
An item response theory modeling of alcohol and marijuana dependences: a national drug abuse treatment clinical trials network study.(Clinical report)
May 01, 2009; ... IN ADDICTION TREATMENT STUDIES, investigators typically evaluate patients for the presence of addictive disorders, rely on self-reported diagnostic instruments for inclusion and exclusion criteria, and examine differences in treatment outcomes across diagnostic categories or key ...
Some medical inpatients with unhealthy alcohol use may benefit from brief intervention.(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS RECOMMEND screening and brief intervention for all adults with unhealthy alcohol use (i.e., the spectrum from drinking risky amounts through dependence; Institute of Medicine, 1990; U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, 2004). Brief intervention, however, has ...
An evaluation of the full level of response to alcohol model of heavy drinking and problems in COGA offspring.(Collaborative Studies on Genetics of Alcoholism)(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... THE IDENTIFICATION OF RISK FACTORS for alcohol-use disorders can offer important clues for their early identification and prevention (Schuckit, 2002). In recent years, several genetically influenced intermediate characteristics (or phenotypes) have been evaluated using structural equation ...
An ecologically based model of alcohol-consumption decision making: evidence for the discriminative and predictive role of contextual reward and punishment information.(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... MUCH OF ALCOHOL-ABUSE RESEARCH has been devoted to the study of individual difference factors--such as personality traits and cognitive abilities--that discriminate alcohol-dependent (AD) individuals from non-AD individuals (e.g., Bogg and Roberts, 2004; Finn et al., 1999). This research ...
Relationship between body mass index, alcohol use, and alcohol misuse in a young adult female twin sample.(Clinical report)
May 01, 2009; ... THE PROPORTION OF AMERICAN WOMEN who are overweight or obese has increased dramatically in the past 50 years. According to recent data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2003-2004, 22.8% of young women ages 20-39 years were overweight, and 28.9% were obese (Ogden et ...
A randomized, double-blind comparison of lorazepam and chlordiazepoxide in patients with uncomplicated alcohol withdrawal.(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... THE GOAL OF MEDICALLY ASSISTED alcohol withdrawal (alcohol detoxification) is to relieve the immediate symptoms of withdrawal, prevent delirium and other life-threatening complications of withdrawal, treat associated medical or psychiatric problems, and help the patient achieve an ...
Sources of unreliability in the diagnosis of substance dependence.(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... THE RELIABILITY OF PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSES obtained using structured interviews varies considerably (Berney et al., 2002; Bryant et al., 1992; Bucholz et al., 1994; Burke, 1986; Easton et al., 1997; Griffin et al., 1987; Williams et al., 1992). There are many sources of unreliability in the ...
Developing a quantitative measure of alcohol consumption for genomic studies on prospective cohorts.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... MEASURES OF SUBSTANCE-USE PROBLEMS as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV; American Psychiatric Association, 1994), are becoming more widely applied in genomic studies (e.g., Edenberg et al., 2004; Gelernter et al., 2005, 2006; Luo ...
Childhood ADHD and conduct disorder as independent predictors of male alcohol dependence at age 40.(attention deficit hyperactivity disorder)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... THE Danish Longitudinal Study on Alcoholism (Goodwin et al., 1994) has examined two groups of males for 40 years: (1) high-risk sons of fathers diagnosed and treated for alcoholism and (2) low-risk sons of fathers with no official record of being treated for alcoholism. The high-risk ...