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Alcohol Research Quarterly: May - June 2002

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Here is the 6th issue of Alcohol Research Update featuring recently published articles and other research of interest to program planners, health promoters, policy-makers and others active in substance abuse prevention in Ontario.

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CONTENTS

1. Alcohol / Substance Abuse Policy

2. Drinking & Driving

3. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

4. Injury/Violence/Crime Prevention

5. Older Adults

6. Low/High-Risk Drinking

7. Practitioner Resources

8. Reports & Statistics

9. Youth & Young Adults

10. Other


** Indicates Canadian content

1. ALCOHOL/SUBSTANCE ABUSE POLICY

Are there differential effects of price and policy on college students' drinking intensity?
Williams J, Chaloupka FJ,Wechsler H. ImpacTEEN Research Paper Series No. 16, Jan 2002.
http://impacteen.org/generalarea_PDFs/differentialeffects
Jan2002_final.pdf

Effects of minimum drinking age laws: review and analyses of the literature from 1960 to 2000.
Wagenaar AC, Toomey TL. J Stud Alcohol Suppl 2002 Mar;(14): 206-25.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12022726&dopt=Abstract

Environmental policies to reduce college drinking: options and research findings.
Toomey TL, Wagenaar AC. J Stud Alcohol Suppl 2002 Mar;(14): 193-205.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12022725&dopt=Abstract

State laws mandating or promoting training programs for alcohol servers and establishment managers: an assessment of statutory and administrative procedures.
Mosher JF, Toomey TL, Good C, Harwood E, Wagenaar AC. J Public Health Policy 2002; 23(1): 90-113.
http://www.safetylit.org/week/new020520.htm

Underage College Students' Drinking Behavior, Access to Alcohol, and the Influence of Deterrence Policies: Findings From the Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study.
Wechsler H, Lee JE, Nelson T, Kuo M. Journal of American College Health, 50(5): 223-236.
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cas/Documents/underminimum/
DrinkingBehavior.pdf

2. DRINKING AND DRIVING

An international comparative study of self-reported driver behavior.
Golais I, Karlaftis MG. Transportation Res Traffic Psych Behav 2001; 4(4): 243-256.
http://www.safetylit.org/week/new020603.htm

** The early effects of Ontario's Administrative Driver's Licence Suspension law on driver fatalities with a BAC
80 mg%. Mann RE, Smart RG, Stoduto G, Beirness D, Lamble R, and Vingilis E. Canadian Journal of Public Health,
May-June 2002; 93(3): 176-180.

Reviews of evidence regarding interventions to reduce alcohol-impaired driving. Shults RA, Elder RW, Sleet DA, et al.
Am J Prev Med 2001; 21(4S).
http://www.thecommunityguide.org/GUIDE/MVOI/pdf/
alc_driving.pdf

3. FETAL ALCOHOL SPRECTRUM DISORDER

** Clinical implications of a link between fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
O'Malley KD, Nanson J. Can J Psychiatry May 2002; 47(4): 349-54.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12025433&dopt=Abstract

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome --- Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, and New York, 1995--1997.
MMWR, May 24, 2002; 51(20): 433-5.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5120a2.htm

Validity of maternal report of prenatal alcohol, cocaine, and smoking in relation to neurobehavioral outcome.
Jacobson SW, Chiodo LM, Sokol RJ, Jacobson JL.
Pediatrics 2002 May; 109(5): 815-25.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11986441&dopt=Abstract

4. INJURY/VIOLENCE/CRIME PREVENTION

Alcohol's contribution to fatal injuries: A report on public perceptions.
Girasek DC, Gielen AC, Smith GS. Ann Emerg Med 2002; 39(6): 622-630.
http://www.safetylit.org/week/new020527.htm

Assault victimization and suicidal ideation or behavior within a national sample of U.S. adults.
Simon TR, Anderson M, Thompson MP, Crosby A, Sacks JJ. Suicide Life Threat Behav 2002 Spring; 32(1):42-50.
http://www.safetylit.org/week/new020520.htm

5. LOW / HIGH RISK DRINKING

The adolescent brain and the college drinker: biological basis of propensity to use and misuse alcohol.
Spear LP. J Stud Alcohol Suppl 2002 Mar;(14): 71-81.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12022731&dopt=Abstract

Binge drinking trajectories from adolescence to emerging adulthood in a high-risk sample: predictors and substance abuse outcomes.
Chassin L, Pitts SC, Prost J. J Consult Clin Psychol 2002 Feb; 70(1):67-78.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11860058&dopt=Abstract

Exploring attitude and belief correlates of adhering to the new guidelines for low-risk single-occasion drinking: an application of the theory of planned behaviour.
Murgraff V, McDermott MR, Walsh J. Alcohol and Alcoholism 2001 Mar-Apr; 36(2):135-40.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11259210&dopt=Abstract

"Nurse, I only had a couple of beers": validity of self-reported drinking before serious vehicular injury.
Sommers MS, Dyehouse JM, Howe SR, Wekselman K, Fleming M. Am J Crit Care 2002 Mar; 11(2):106-14.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11888122&dopt=Abstract

The role of mass media campaigns in reducing high-risk drinking among college students.
DeJong W. J Stud Alcohol Suppl 2002 Mar;(14):182-92.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12022724&dopt=Abstract

6. OLDER ADULTS

Are There Differences Between Older Persons Who Screen Positive on the CAGE Questionnaire and the Short Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test-Geriatric Version?
Moore AA, Seeman T, Morgenstern H, Beck JC, Reuben DB. J Am Geriatr Soc 2002 May; 50(5): 858-62.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12028172&dopt=Abstract

7. PRACTITIONER RESOURCES

[Sources: Prevention Source BC, www.preventionsource.bc.ca and Click4HP]

Prevention 2000: Moving Effective Prevention Programs into Practice
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, March 2002.
http://www.rwjf.org/publications/publicationsPdfs/
Prevention2000.pdf

Teen Tipplers: America's Underage Drinking Epidemic
The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA), February 2002.
http://www.casacolumbia.org/usr_doc/Underage1.pdf

Why Bad Ads Happen to Good Causes and how to Ensure They Wont' Happen to Yours. A guide for creating more effective public interest print advertising featuring new data from an unprecedented 10-year study by Roper ASW.
Written by A Goodman. Cause Communications, 2002.
http://www.rwjf.org/publications/publicationsPdfs/badadslo.pdf

8. REPORTS & STATISTICS

** Alcohol's Role in the Deaths of BC Children and Youth.
Mitic, Wayne and John Greschner. Canadian Journal of Public Health May-June 2002; 93(3): 173-176.
Unavailable online.

See The Role of Alcohol in the Lives and Deaths of Children and Youth In British Columbia.
BC Children's Commission Special Report, October 2001.
http://www.childservices.gov.bc.ca/reports/2001/fas/alcohol
-report-oct2001.pdf

9. YOUTH & YOUNG ADULTS

Alcohol and youth: Time for effective action. Editorial.
Single, Eric. Canadian Journal of Public Health, May-June 2002, 93(3): 169-170.

Alcohol advertising and youth.
Saffer H. J Stud Alcohol Suppl 2002 Mar;(14): 173-81.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12022723
&dopt=Abstract

Comprehensive community interventions to promote health: implications for college-age drinking problems.
Hingson RW, Howland J. J Stud Alcohol Suppl 2002 Mar;(14): 226-40.

Familial and "on-the-street" risk factors associated with alcohol use among homeless and runaway adolescents.
McMorris BJ, Tyler KA, Whitbeck LB, Hoyt DR. J Stud Alcohol 2002 Jan; 63(1):34-43
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11925056
&dopt=Abstract

Socioeconomic Status, Depressive Symptoms, and Adolescent Substance Use.
Goodman, Elizabeth and Bin Huang. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine 2002; 156(5): 448-453.
http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/issues/v156n5/rfull/poa10312.html

10. OTHER

Developing Best Practices of Emergency Care for the Alcohol-Impaired Patient, Recommendations from the National Conference.
US Department of Transportation, June 2001.
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/alcohol/EmergCare/toc.htm



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