Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Editorial - Addiction is a disease: We must change our attitudes toward addicts

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Health professionals, like the rest of society, often think and behave negatively toward addiction and the people who suffer ...
Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Wine Consumption and 20-Year Mortality Among Late-Life Moderate Drinkers

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This study examined level of wine consumption and total mortality among 802 older adults ages 55–65 at baseline, controlling for key sociode...

Increases in Typical Quantities Consumed and Alcohol-Related Problems During a Decade of Liberalizing Alcohol Policy

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The aim of this study was to assess trends in drinking patterns and alcohol-related problems among age and gender groups in the context of a...

Gender and Extroversion as Moderators of the Association Between Alcoholics Anonymous and Sobriety

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Although women make up one third of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) membership, research on gender and AA has been limited. Findings in the litera...

Alcohol Milestones, Risk Factors, and Religion/Spirituality in Young Adult Women

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The alcoholism research literature has long reported a significant, reliable, and inverse association between alcohol use disorders and reli...

Naturally Occurring Changes in Women's Drinking From High School to College and Implications for Sexual Victimization

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The current study examined the natural trajectories of alcohol use among women as they transitioned from high school to college, considering...

Is the Density of Alcohol Establishments Related to Nonviolent Crime?

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We examined the associations between the density of alcohol establishments and five types of nonviolent crime across urban neighborhoods. D...

Case-Control Study in China of Risk Factors for Suicide in Men With Alcohol Use Disorders

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This secondary analysis of China's National Psychological Autopsy Study assesses the risk factors for suicide among men with alcohol use...

Substance Use Disorders and Homicide Death in Veterans

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The present study examined the association between a diagnosis of an alcohol use disorder or a drug use disorder and death by homicide over ...

Alcohol News - 50/2011

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Mindshare (Lithuania) - Alcohol advertising ban denied Lithuanian Parliament has abjured complete ban of alcohol advertising. Alcohol adv...

The History of Our Field: Reflections on the Solid Foundations on Which We Stand—The Contributions of Griffith Edwards

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THIS IS THE FIRST OF WHAT I HOPE to be an occasional series of articles in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs helping those of us...

Older and wiser? Men’s and women’s accounts of drinking in early mid-life

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Most qualitative research on alcohol focuses on younger rather than older adults. To explore older people’s relationship with alcohol, we c...
Monday, December 12, 2011

Twelve-step attendance trajectories over seven years among adolescents entering substance use treatment in an integrated health plan

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This study examines twelve-step attendance trajectories over seven years, factors associated with the trajectories, and relationships betw...

An intervention to increase alcohol treatment engagement: A pilot trial

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Previous research has documented the difficulty individuals with alcohol use disorders have initiating alcohol treatment. This study asses...

Examination of the latent factor structure of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test in two independent trauma patient groups using confirmator

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Recent research on the factor structure of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) provides support for two underlying facto...

The effect of anxiety sensitivity on alcohol consumption among individuals with comorbid alcohol dependence and posttraumatic stress disorder.

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Existing research has shown that anxiety sensitivity (AS) is positively associated with alcohol use, and that individuals with high AS use a...

Adolescent alcohol-related risk cognitions: The roles of social norms and social networking sites.

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The present study examined the impact of socially based descriptive norms on willingness to drink alcohol, drinker prototype favorability,...

A beverage-specific measure of expectancies for malt liquor: Development and initial testing.

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Malt liquor (ML) is a unique, high alcohol content beverage marketed to encourage heavy drinking. We developed the Malt Liquor Expectancy Qu...

The influence of confidence on associations among personal attitudes, perceived injunctive norms, and alcohol consumption.

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Social norms theories hold that perceptions of the degree of approval for a behavior have a strong influence on one's private attitudes ...

Alcohol approach tendencies in heavy drinkers: Comparison of effects in a relevant stimulus-response compatibility task and an approach/avoidance Simo

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Several recent studies suggest that alcohol-related cues elicit automatic approach tendencies in heavy drinkers. A variety of tasks have bee...