Journal Article
Homeless women with a greater proportion of heavy alcohol users in their personal networks had greater odds of engaging in binge drinking, and women with a greater proportion of drug users in their networks had greater odds of using marijuana, cocaine, crack, and methamphetamine or other amphetamines. Women with a greater proportion of individuals in their networks that they had met in school or through work had lower odds of marijuana, cocaine, and crack use.
Journal Article
Providing a unified treatment approach to meet the substance abuse and mental health needs of clients is the preferred model for addressing co-occurring disorders.
Report
The National Audit Office (NAO) of the United Kingdom, in order to determine the structure and effectiveness of Department of Health and National Health System interventions aimed at preventing and reducing alcohol harm in England, commissioned RAND Europe to examine similar programs in Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands and the United States.
Journal Article
Higher first-week scores on Dimensions of Change Instrument assessments from adults in therapeutic communities predicted first-month retention. First-week scores also predicted posttreatment alcohol-and-other-drug abstinence and functioning.
Research Brief
This research brief describes a study that found that working for pay in and around the 10th grade is associated with increased smoking among teens.
Journal Article
This paper evaluates the impact of the 1992 Civil Unrest in Los Angeles (which followed the Rodney King incident), in which many alcohol outlets were damaged leading to a decrease in alcohol outlet density, on crime.
Journal Article
The current pilot study examined the preliminary efficacy of a brief intervention (BI) for at-risk drinking in an employee assistance program.
Journal Article
Over the past two decades, studies have provided evidence for the strong link between substance use (SU) and delinquency among adolescents.
Journal Article
Prosmoking peer and family influences were risk factors for future smoking throughout adolescence. Youth smoking was associated with peer smoking and poor grades, with youth smoking as a stronger antecedent than consequence for these factors.
Journal Article
The objective of this study was to examine the associations between alcohol availability types and community characteristics in randomly selected census tracts in Southern California and Southeastern Louisiana.
Journal Article
Inconsistencies in adolescent reporting of recent substance use are associated with program assignment and factors that influence treatment outcomes, including age at first use, living situation, race/ethnicity, and mental distress.
Journal Article
This study underscores the diversity of drug use within rural communities, suggesting that living in a very rural area is protective against some forms of drug use but that living in a rural area that includes a medium or large town is not.
Journal Article
Prostatitis accounts for 2 million outpatient visits annually. Most cases fit the definition of chronic pelvic pain syndrome. Despite evidence that antibiotics are not effective for this syndrome, they were prescribed for 69% of these men.
Journal Article
Examines the extent to which time-varying factors, including substance use, influence the likelihood of heavy and persistent marijuana users dropping out of school and determines that parental and peer influences drive this result.
Journal Article
The current study examined the impact of a brief motivational interviewing (MI) intervention (Project CHAT) on alcohol consumption and drug use for high-risk teens in a primary care clinic that provides health care for underserved populations.
Journal Article
Permissive households (based on parental knowledge of whereabouts, curfew, and predicted response to child drinking or use of marijuana) are associated with adolescent heavy drinking. Alcohol prevention programs can target prodrinking influences.
Journal Article
The authors tested a theoretical model of personality structures underlying patterns of intra-individual variability in contextualized appraisals.
Journal Article
Finds that younger adolescents (i.e., middle school aged) who had never smoked and are having the most difficulty figuring out who they are are most susceptible to the effects of cigarette advertising.
Journal Article
Tobacco billboards were outlawed in 1999, but over 25% of tobacco ads in Louisiana do not comply. In Los Angeles, 37% of alcohol ads and 25% of tobacco ads were within 500 feet of a school, playground, or church, in violation of advertisers pledges.
Journal Article
Examines developmental factors that may contribute to higher substance use rates among bisexual than heterosexual women. Adolescent bisexual women were more likely to have been current and solitary substance users and reported poorer mental health.