Alcohol Research Quarterly:July - September 2003
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Here is the 12th 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. Alcohol Advertising
3. Drinking & Driving
4. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
5. Injury/Violence/Crime Prevention
6. Low/High-Risk Drinking
7. Older Adults
8.Practitioner Resources
9. Reports & Statistics
10. Workplace
11.Youth & Young Adults
12. Other: Focus on Families/Parents
** Indicates Canadian content
1. ALCOHOL/SUBSTANCE ABUSE POLICY
Assessing the effectiveness of minimum legal drinking age and zero tolerance laws in the United States.
Voas RB, Tippetts AS, Fell JC. Accid Anal Prev. 2003 Jul;35(4):579-87.
Abstract: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12729821&dopt=Abstract
Drinking and its burden in a global perspective: policy considerations and options.
Room R, Graham K, Rehm J, Jernigan D, Monteiro M.
Eur Addict Res. 2003 Sep;9(4):165-75
Abstract: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12970585&dopt=Abstract
Globalisation and the prevention and control of non-communicable disease: the neglected chronic diseases of adults
Beaglehole, R and D Yach. Lancet 2003; 362: 903-08
Full text (free onsite registration required):
http://pdf.thelancet.com/pdfdownload?uid=llan.362.9387.
editorial_and_review.27126.1&x=x.pdf
** Public perception of alcohol policy issues relating directly or indirectly to privatization: Results from a 1999 Ontario survey.
Anglin L., Giesbrecht N., Ialomiteanu A., McAllister J., Ogborne A.
Can J Public Health 2003;94(3):201-6.
Abstract: http://www.cpha.ca/shared/cjph/archives/abstr03.htm#201-6
Think they're drunk? Alcohol servers and the identification of intoxication.
Burns ED, Nusbaumer MR, Reiling DM. J Drug Educ. 2003;33(2):177-86.
Abstract: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=
Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12929708&dopt=Abstract
2. ALCOHOL ADVERTISING
Alcohol Promotional Clothing Items and Alcohol Use by Underage Consumers
Workman, Jane E. Family & Consumer Sciences Research Journal, March 2003; 31(3).
Abstract (scroll down page):
http://www.aafcs.org/newsletters/facs/apr03/index.html#
abstracts
The Marketing of Alcohol to College Students: The Role of Low Prices and Special Promotions
Kuo M, Wechsler H, Greenberg P, Lee H. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2003; 25(3): 204-211.
Full text: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cas/Documents/
marketingalcohol/marketingalcohol912.pdf
3. DRINKING AND DRIVING
**Alcohol consumption and fatal accidents in Canada, 1950-98.
Skog OJ. Addiction. 2003 Jul;98(7):883-93.
Abstract: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=
PubMed&list_uids=12814494&dopt=Abstract
Drinking and Driving Among College Students: The Influence of Alcohol-Control Policies
Wechsler H, Lee JE, Nelson TF, Lee H. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2003; 25(3): 212-218.
Full text: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cas/Documents/drinkingdriving/
drinkingdriving912.pdf
4. FETAL ALCOHOL SPRECTRUM DISORDER
The effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on infant mental development: a meta-analytical review.
Testa M, Quigley BM, Eiden RD. Alcohol. 2003 Jul-Aug;38(4):295-304.
Abstract: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=
Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12814894&dopt=Abstract
** Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in the Canadian Corrections System
Burd, Larry, Rachael H. Selfridge, Marilyn G. Klug, Tim Juelson, J FAS Int 2003;1:e14.
Full text: http://www.motherisk.org/JFAS/pdf/FAS_Corrections_REV.pdf
5. INJURY/VIOLENCE/CRIME PREVENTION
**Causes and consequences of air rage in Canada: Cases in newspapers.
Smart R.G., Mann R.E. Can J Public Health 2003;94(4):251-53.
Abstract: http://www.cpha.ca/shared/cjph/archives/abstr03.htm#251-53
See also: Alcohol-Related Air Rage: >From Damage Control to Primary Prevention
Full text: http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0278-095X
Critical processes for creating health-promoting sporting environments in Australia
Beth R. Crisp and Hal Swerissen. Health Promotion International June 2003; 18(2)145-152.
Abstract: http://heapro.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/18/2/145?
maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&titleabstract=
alcohol&searchid=1063918004038_623&stored_search=&
FIRSTINDEX=0&fdate=3/1/2003&journalcode=heapro
Interventions for preventing injuries in problem drinkers (Cochrane Review)
Dinh-Zarr T, DiGuiseppi C, Heitman E, Roberts The Cochrane Library, Issue 3, 2003.
Abstract: http://www.update-software.com/abstracts/ab001857.htm
See also: SafetyLit, Injury Prevention Abstracts Online,
Center for Injury Prevention Policy & Practice, San Diego State U
Abstracts: http://www.safetylit.org/week/newmenu.htm
6. LOW / HIGH RISK DRINKING
**Alcohol consumption and liver cirrhosis mortality with and without mention of alcohol--the case of Canada.
Ramstedt M. Addiction. 2003 Sep;98(9):1267-76.
Abstract: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=
PubMed&list_uids=12930214&dopt=Abstract
How stable is the risk curve between alcohol and all-cause mortality and what factors influence the shape? A precision-weighted hierarchical meta-analysis.
Gmel G, Gutjahr E, Rehm J. Eur J Epidemiol. 2003;18(7):631-42.
Abstract: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=
PubMed&list_uids=12952136&dopt=Abstract
**Physicians' enquiries into their patients' alcohol use: public views and recalled experiences.
Rush BR, Urbanoski KA, Allen BA. Addiction. 2003 Jul;98(7):895-900.
Abstract: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=
PubMed&list_uids=12814495&dopt=Abstract
Screening in brief intervention trials targeting excessive drinkers in general practice:systematic review and meta-analysis
Anders Beich, Thorkil Thorsen, Stephen Rollnick. BMJ Sep 2003; 327(6).
Full text: http://bmj.com/cgi/reprint/327/7414/536?maxtoshow=&
HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=1&fulltext=alcohol&searchid=
1063914548319_2616&stored_search=&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=
relevance&fdate=6/1/2003&resourcetype=1,2,3,4
7. OLDER ADULTS
Comparison of consumption effects of brief interventions for hazardous drinking elderly.
Gordon AJ, Conigliaro J, Maisto SA, McNeil M, Kraemer KL, Kelley ME.
Subst Use Misuse. 2003 Jun;38(8):1017-35.
Abstract: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12901447&dopt=Abstract
The impact of alcohol use in community-dwelling older adults.
Resnick B, et al J Community Health Nurs. 2003 Fall;20(3):135-45.
Abstract: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12925311&dopt=Abstract
Predictors of falls in a high risk population: results from the prevention of falls in the elderly trial (PROFET).
Close JC, Hooper R, Glucksman E, Jackson SH, Swift CG.
Emerg Med J. 2003 Sep;20(5):421-425.
Abstract: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12954679&dopt=Abstract
Risk factors associated with hospitalization for unintentional falls: Wisconsin hospital discharge data for patients aged 65 and over.
Guse CE, Porinsky R. WMJ. 2003;102(4):37-42.
Abstract: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12967020&dopt=Abstract
8. PRACTITIONER RESOURCES
**A matter of degree: Social norming strategy challenges campus drinking culture
van den Broek, Astrid, CrossCurrents Summer 2003
Full text: http://www.camh.net/crosscurrents/crosscurrentsv6no4/matter_of_
degree.html
**Best Practices - Treatment and Rehabilitation for Seniors with Substance Use Problems
Health Canada 2002
Full text: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hecs-sesc/cds/pdf/Seniors.pdf
Helping Patients With Alcohol Problems. A Health Practitioner's Guide
US Department of Health and Human Resources, 2003
Full text: http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/Practitioner/Practitioners
GuideFINAL.pdf
**Managing Addictions in the Community
Murray, Joanne L, Angela Gates and Edward Hansen, Forum on Corrections
Research May 2003; 15(1).
Full text: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/pblct/forum/index_e.shtml
9. REPORTS & STATISTICS
Alcohol Abuse. Background Paper
Talina Drabsch, New South Wales Parliamentary Library, May 2003 (AU)
Full text: http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/web/PHWebContent.nsf/PHPages/
ResearchBp200305?OpenDocument
Alcohol Marketing and Advertising: A Report to Congress
US Federal Trade Commission, Sep 2003
Full text:http://www.ftc.gov/os/2003/09/alcohol08report.pdf
**Canadian Community Health Survey: Canadian Forces supplement on mental health
The Daily, Statistics Canada, Sep 5, 2002
Summary: http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/030905/d030905b.htm
** Canadian Community Health Survey: Mental health and well-being 2002
The Daily, Statistics Canada, Sep 3, 2002
Summary: http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/030903/d030903a.htm
**Control and sale of alcoholic beverages 2001/02
The Daily, Statistics Canada, July 9, 2002
Summary: http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/030709/d030709b.htm
**Crime Statistics
The Daily, Statistics Canada, July 24, 2003
Full text: http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/030724/d030724a.htm
**Monthly Variation of Self-Reports of Drinking and Driving in Ontario,
CAMH ebulletin, July/Aug 2003
Full text: http://www.camh.net/research/pdfs/eb021_ddmonthly.pdf
National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse VIII: Teens & Parents
CASA, August 2003
Full text: http://www.casacolumbia.org/usr_doc/2003_Teen_Survey.pdf
**Northern Ontario Child and Youth Health Report
Northern Health Information Partnership, 2003
Summary & Full text: http://www.nhip.org/child/
**Ontario Boating Fatalities Report Lifesaving Society, May 2003
Full text: http://www.lifesavingsociety.com/PDF/98OntarioBoatingFatalities
.2003edition.pdf
**Questions & Answers: Results from The Alberta Youth Experience Survey
Developments Aug-Sep 2003; 23(4), AADAC.
Summary: http://corp.aadac.com/programsservices/developments/
vol23_issue4.asp
Reducing Underage Drinking: A Collective Responsibility
Richard J. Bonnie and Mary Ellen O'Connell, Eds. Committee on Developing a
Strategy to Reduce and Prevent Underage Drinking, Board on Children, Youth, and Families, National Research Council, 2003 (US)
Full text: http://www.nap.edu/books/0309089352/html/
Summary: http://camy.org/factsheets/index.php?FactsheetID=12
10. WORKPLACE
Worker substance use, workplace problems and the risk of occupational
injury: a matched case-control study.
Spicer RS, Miller TR, Smith GS. J Stud Alcohol. 2003 Jul;64(4):570-8.
Abstract: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve
&db=PubMed&list_uids=12921200&dopt=Abstract
11. YOUTH & YOUNG ADULTS
Changing the College AOD Environment for Primary Prevention.
Clapp, John D.; Stanger, Louise, Journal of Primary Prevention
Sum 2003; 23(4):515-23.
Abstract: http://ipsapp009.kluweronline.com/content/getfile/4931/16/6/
abstract.htm
See also: Primary Substance Abuse Prevention in Education
The Journal of Primary Prevention Spring 2003; 23(3).
Full text articles: http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0278-095X
Perception and Reality: A National Evaluation of Social Norms Marketing Interventions to Reduce College Students' Heavy Alcohol Use
Wechsler H, Nelson TF, Lee JE, Seibring M, Lewis C, Keeling RP. Journal of Studies on Alcohol. 2003; 64(4): 484-494.
Full text: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cas/Documents/social_norms/
484-Wechsler.pdf
Resilience as a Theoretical Basis for Substance Abuse Prevention
Meschke, Laurie L. and Joän M. Patterson The Journal of Primary Prevention
Summer 2003; 23 (4): 483-514.
Abstract: http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0278-095X
**Secular trends in self-reported violent activity among Ontario students, 1983-2001.
Paglia A., Adlaf E.M. Can J Public Health 2003;94(3):212-17.
Abstract: http://www.cpha.ca/shared/cjph/archives/abstr03.htm#212-17
Social influences on substance-use behaviors of gay, lesbian, and bisexual college students: findings from a national study
Eisenberg M, Wechsler H. Social Science & Medicine. 2003; 57(10): 1913-1923.
Abstract: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cas/Documents/gaylesbian/
12. OTHER : FOCUS ON FAMILY
Alcohol, Drugs and the Family: Results from a Long-Running Research Programme within the UK
Richard Velleman, Lorna Templeton. European Addiction Research 2003;9:103-112
Abstract: http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?
Aktion=ShowAbstract&ProduktNr=224233&Ausgabe
=229226&ArtikelNr=70978
**Parental awareness of adolescent substance use.
Williams RJ, McDermitt DR, Bertrand LD, Davis RM.
Addict Behav. 2003 Jun;28(4):803-9.
Abstract: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=
Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12726793&dopt=Abstract
Parental monitoring, negotiated unsupervised time, and parental trust: the role of perceived parenting practices in adolescent health risk behaviors.
Borawski EA, Ievers-Landis CE, Lovegreen LD, Trapl ES., J Adolesc Health. 2003 Aug;33(2):60-70.
Abstract: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=
Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12890596&dopt=Abstract
See also: Prevention Research Summaries and Reports on Family Intervention (Aug 2003) and Parent Education (June 2003) prepared by the Australian Drug Information Clearinghouse
Reports: http://www.druginfo.adf.org.au/container.asp?id=466
Summaries: http://www.druginfo.adf.org.au/container.asp?id=467
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