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Background and aims
Nearly all the research conducted on high‐intensity drinking has focused on college and school‐based samples, with recent calls for research to understand this risky drinking pattern in non‐school‐based samples and across time. This study aimed to characterize predictors and consequences of non‐binge drinking, age‐ and gender‐adjusted binge drinking (level I) and drinking at levels...
AimsThis study examined the personality traits of negative emotionality and constraint and the ability to resist drinking during negative affective states as correlates of solitary drinking in adolescence. We hypothesized that higher levels of negative emotionality and lower levels of constraint would predict solitary drinking and that these relationships would be mediated by the ability to resist...
AimsThis commentary critically evaluates the use of substance‐related negative psychosocial and health consequences to define and diagnose alcohol and other substance use disorders.
MethodsNarrative review.
ResultsThe consequences of substance use cause much suffering and are major public health and economic problems. However, there are a number of conceptual and measurement problems with using...
Aims To determine whether collaborative behavioral management (CBM) reduces substance use, crime and re‐arrest among drug‐involved parolees.
Design Step'n Out was a randomized behavioral trial of CBM versus standard parole (SP) during 2004–08. CBM adapted evidence‐based role induction, behavioral contracting and contingent reinforcement to provide parole officer/treatment counselor dyads with positive...
Aims Compared to DSM‐IV nicotine dependence, proposed DSM‐5 nicotine use disorder (NUD) would lower the threshold from three to two symptoms, and increase the number of criteria used for diagnosis from seven to 11. The impact of the proposed changes on nicotine disorder prevalence and the concurrent validity of diagnostic criteria were examined.
Design Cross‐sectional survey to compare DSM‐IV and...
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