- One small step for manuals: Computer-assisted training in twelve-step facilitation. [Randomized Controlled Trial]
- CONCLUSIONS: Computer-based training may be a feasible and effective means of training larger numbers of clinicians in empirically supported, manual-guided therapies.
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- The impact of alcohol taxation on liver cirrhosis mortality. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Consistent with prior research, cirrhosis mortality in the United States appears more closely linked to consumption of distilled spirits than to that of other alcoholic beverages.
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- Activating action tendencies: The influence of action priming on alcohol consumption among male hazardous drinkers. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that behavioral sequences associated with drinking may prime alcohol-related motivational states among hazardous-drinking men. Moreover, these action primes may affect subsequent alcohol use independent of changes in subjective indices of alcohol-related motivation. Implications for understanding the distinct effects of alcohol-related cues on controlled and automatic processes underlying alcohol use are discussed.
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- A multidimensional developmental model of alcohol use during emerging adulthood. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Although alcohol use increased overall for study participants between ages 18.5 and 22.5, participants in lower-level alcohol-use latent classes were more likely to remain in low-level latent classes over time, and participants in moderate- and high-level latent classes were more likely to be in the frequent high use with heavy episodic drinking latent class over time. Implications for the prevention of heavy episodic drinking are discussed.
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- Spring break trips as a risk factor for heavy alcohol use among first-year college students. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Spring break trips are a risk factor for escalated alcohol use both during the academic semester and during spring break trips, suggesting that some students may seek out opportunities for excessive alcohol use. Results are discussed in terms of niche selection and prevention implications.
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- Alcohol, illegal drugs, violent crime, and traffic-related and other unintended injuries in U.S. local and national news. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: The underreporting in the United States of alcohol's contribution to serious and fatal injury from these causes may reduce public perceptions of alcohol-related risks, potentially influencing behavior, including public support of alcohol-control policies. This provides an opportunity for media-advocacy approaches to improve public health content of news coverage.
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- Reclassifying DIS-III-R alcohol use disorders to DSM-IV criteria in a sample of convicted impaired drivers. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Our rescoring results were consistent with earlier studies that compared DSM-III-R and DSM-IV diagnoses. Here, we offer an approach that may be useful to investigators who used the DIS-III-R in earlier studies. The DIS-III-R questions corresponding to DSM-IV criteria for alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence are on our Web site at www.bhrcs.org, along with the scoring algorithm.
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- The effect of alcohol consumption on emergency department services use among injured patients: A cross-national emergency room study. [Multicenter Study]
- CONCLUSIONS: This study lends additional support to the potential effectiveness of screening for acute and chronic alcohol use among ED injured patients to reduce ED services use and associated costs.
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- A successful social norms campaign to reduce alcohol misuse among college student-athletes. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: This social norms intervention was highly effective in reducing alcohol misuse in this high-risk collegiate subpopulation by intensively delivering data-based messages about actual peer norms through multiple communication venues.
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- A multisite randomized trial of social norms marketing campaigns to reduce college student drinking. [Randomized Controlled Trial]
- CONCLUSIONS: This study is the most rigorous evaluation of SNM campaigns conducted to date. Analysis revealed that students attending institutions that implemented an SNM campaign had a lower relative risk of alcohol consumption than students attending control group institutions.
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- Hypercortisolism in alcohol dependence and its relation to hippocampal volume loss. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: These early data in a small sample support the view that chronic heavy drinking results in high salivary cortisol concentrations. What remains unclear is whether hypercortisolism exerts a selectively injurious effect that results in observed hippocampus volume loss. Further research in larger groups using more frequent, monitored sampling must address the following: (1) whether this finding can be replicated and (2) if replicated, whether the lack of an association between low hippocampal volumes and high cortisol levels may indicate an extent of injury beyond which a normal association of the two may be lost.
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- Memory and perseveration on a win-stay, lose-shift task in rats exposed neonatally to alcohol. [Journal Article]J Stud Alcohol. 2006 Nov; 67(6):851-60.JS
- CONCLUSIONS: Choice behavior was comparable for all groups on the win-stay, lose-shift task, indicating that memory, as assessed by this task, was not differentially affected by alcohol exposure. Alcohol-exposed rats responded more during the intertrial interval compared with suckle controls, suggesting increased activity without increased response inhibition. The win-stay, lose-shift procedure is a potentially useful tool for separating simple activity level effects, memory-related effects, and response-inhibition effects. This study also highlights the need for additional research describing the relationship between perseverative responding and underlying mechanisms.
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- An evaluation of the performance of the self-rating of the effects of alcohol questionnaire in 12- and 35-year-old subjects. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: The SRE score appears to perform relatively similarly across the two populations regarding relationships with alcohol quantity, frequency, and problems. The most consistent results were observed for the maximum quantity of alcohol consumed.
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- Alcohol consumption and symptoms of depression in young adults from 20 countries. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest that the "U"-shaped association between alcohol consumption and depressive symptoms previously identified in Western countries is present in young people from a variety of cultural backgrounds. The relationship is not secondary to variations in health status, socioeconomic background, age, and gender.
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- Premenstrual symptomatology, alcohol consumption, and family history of alcoholism in women with premenstrual syndrome. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Although FH+ women increased their drinking premenstrually, such use was unrelated to PMS symptom severity.
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