ARG’s research on the environment and the individual drinker involves a number of contextual influences on a person’s drinking behavior and related problems. These influences are at all levels, from context of drinking, social situations surrounding the individual such as partners, social networks, and norms supporting more or less drinking, and harms from heavy drinkers (whether from strangers, acquaintances or family members), to neighborhood and community conditions such as neighborhood disadvantage and alcohol outlet density, to policies and regulations at all levels from local and state to federal alcohol and drug-related policies.

Scientists

• Cheryl J. Cherpitel, DrPH
• Thomas K. Greenfield, PhD
• Katherine Karriker-Jaffe, PhD
• William C. Kerr, PhD
• Nina Mulia, DrPH
• Douglas L. Polcin, Ed.D
• Sarah E. Zemore, PhD

Current Projects

• Hotspots: Understanding Areas of Concentrated Alcohol and Drug Problems at the US-Mexico Border (A Center Research Component)
• Social, Developmental and Genetic Epidemiology of Alcohol Use Disorders
• Alcohol’s Harms to Others among US Adults: Individual and Contextual Effects
• Inter-relationships Between Life-course Alcohol Patterns and Health Conditions
• Reducing Offenders HIV Risk: MI Enhanced Case Management with Drug-Free Housing

Completed Projects

• Race/ethnicity, Socioeconomic Disadvantage, and Disparities in Alcohol Problems (A Center Research Component)
• Identifying Modifiable Influences on Alcohol Problems in High-Risk Neighborhoods
• Effects of Disadvantage and Protective Resources on Alcohol-Related Disparities
• Epidemiology of Drinking and Disorders in Border vs. Non-Border Contexts
• Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Alcohol Outcomes: Moderators and Mediators

Selected Publications

• Greenfield, T.K., Ye, Y., Lown, E.A., Cherpitel, C.J., Zemore, S., Borges, G. (2017). Alcohol use patterns and DSM-5 alcohol use disorder on both sides of the US-Mexico border. Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, 41 (4) 769-778 Abstract or Full Text
• Karriker-Jaffe, KJ, Liu, H & Kaplan, LM. (2016). Understanding associations between neighborhood socioeconomic status and negative consequences of drinking: A moderated mediation analysis. Prevention Science, 1-12 Abstract or Full Text
• Jones-Webb, R., Karriker-Jaffe, K.J., Zemore, S.E., Mulia, N. (2016). Effects of economic disruptions on alcohol use and problems: why do African Americans fare worse?. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 77 (2) 261-71 Abstract or Full Text
• Zemore, SE, Cherpitel, CJ, Ye, Y, Borgas, G, Li, L, Wallisch, LS. (2016). Factors explaining variation in alcohol use disorder prevalence across border and nonborder communities in Texas. Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental , 40 (8) 1707-1716 Abstract or Full Text
• Cook W.K., Karriker-Jaffe K.J., Bond J., Lui C. (2015). Asian American problem drinking trajectories during the transition to adulthood: ethnic drinking cultures and neighborhood contexts. American Journal of Public Health, 105 :1020-1027. Abstract or Full Text
• Cherpitel C.J., Ye Y., Bond J., Zemore S.E., Borges G., Greenfield T.K. (2015). Border effects on DSM-5 alcohol use disorders on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Jan. 19 Abstract or Full Text
• Borges G., Zamora B., Garcia J., Orozco R., Cherpitel C.J., Zemore S., Breslau J. (2015). Symptoms of anxiety on both sides of the US-Mexico border: the role of immigration. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 61 46-51 Abstract or Full Text
• Cherpitel, C.J., Ye, Y., Zemore, S., Bond, J., Borges, G. (2015). The effect of cross-border mobility on alcohol and drug use among Mexican-American residents living at the U.S.-Mexico border. Addictive Behaviors, 50: 28-33 Abstract or Full Text
• Gilbert P.A., Perreira K., Eng E, Rhodes S.D. (2014). Social Stressors and Alcohol Use among Immigrant Sexual and Gender Minority Latinos in a Non-Traditional Settlement State. Substance Use & Misuse, 49 (11) 1365-75 Abstract or Full Text
• Greenfield T.K., Karriker-Jaffe K.J., Giesbrecht N., Kerr W.C., Ye Y., Bond J. (2014). Second-hand drinking may increase support for alcohol policies: new results from the 2010 National Alcohol Survey. Drug & Alcohol Review, 33 (3) 259-267 Abstract or Full Text
• Polcin D.L., Mericle A., Howell J., Sheridan D., Christensen J. (2014). Maximizing social model principles in residential recovery settings. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 46 (5) 436-43 Abstract or Full Text
• Karriker-Jaffe, K.J. & Greenfield, T.K. (2014). Gender differences in alcohol’s harms to others in disadvantaged U.S. neighborhoods. Drug & Alcohol Review, 33 (3) 296-303 Abstract or Full Text
• Mulia N., Zemore S., Murphy R., Liu H., Catalano R. (2014). Economic loss and alcohol consumption and problems during the 2008-9 U.S. recession. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 38 (4) 1026-1034 Abstract or Full Text
• Karriker-Jaffe, K.J., Roberts, S.C.M., & Bond, J. (2013). Understanding the contribution of income inequality to alcohol use patterns and associated problems. American Journal of Public Health, 103 (4) 649-656 Abstract or Full Text
• Cook, W. K., Bond, J., Karriker-Jaffe, K. J., & Zemore, S. E. (2013). Who’s At Risk? Ethnic Drinking Cultures, Foreign Nativity, and Asian American Young Adult Drinking. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 74 (4) 532-541 Abstract or Full Text
• Jones-Webb, R. & Karriker-Jaffe, K.J. (2013). Neighborhood disadvantage, high alcohol content beverage consumption, drinking norms, and drinking consequences: A mediation analysis. Journal of Urban Health, 90 (4) 667-684 Abstract or Full Text
• Mulia, N. & Karriker-Jaffe, K.J. (2012). Interactive Influences of Neighborhood and Individual Socioeconomic Status on Alcohol Consumption and Problems. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 47 (2) 178-186 Abstract or Full Text
• Karriker-Jaffe, K.J., Zemore, S.E., Mulia, N., Jones-Webb, R., Bond, J., & Greenfield, T.K. (2012). Neighborhood disadvantage and adult alcohol outcomes: Differential risk by race and sex. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 73 (6) 856-873 Abstract or Full Text
• Karriker-Jaffe, K.J. (2011). Areas of disadvantage: A systematic review of effects of area-level socioeconomic status on substance use. Drug and Alcohol Review, 30 84-95 Abstract or Full Text
• Greenfield, T.K., Ye, Y., Nayak, M.B., Bond, J., Kerr, W.C, & Trocki, K. (2011). Heaviest drinking locations and the most drunk there predict the likelihood of fighting and being assaulted: results from the 2000 US National Alcohol Survey. Contemporary Drug Problems, 38 (Summer) 213-236 Abstract or Full Text
• Kerr, W.C. (2010). Categorizing US State Drinking Practices and Consumption Trends. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 7 (1) 269-283 Abstract or Full Text
• Nyaronga, D., Greenfield, T. K., & McDaniel, P. A (2009). Drinking context and drinking problems among black, white and Hispanic men and women in the 1984, 1995 and 2005 U.S. National Alcohol Surveys. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 70 (1) 16-26 Abstract or Full Text
• Greenfield, T.K., Yu, Y., Kerr, W.C., Bond, J., Rehm, J., and Giesbrecht, N. (2009). Externalities from alcohol consumption in the 2005 US National Alcohol Survey: Implications for policy. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 6 (12) 3205-3224 Abstract or Full Text
• Mulia, N., Schmidt, L., Bond, J., Jacobs, L., & Korcha, R. (2008). Stress, social support and problem drinking among women in poverty. Addiction, 103 (8) 1283-93 Abstract or Full Text
• Kairouz, S, Greenfield, T. K. (2007). A comparative multilevel analysis of contextual drinking in American and Canadian adults. Addiction, 102 (1) 71-80 Abstract or Full Text
• Mulia, N., & Schmidt, L. (2003). Conflicts and trade-offs due to alcohol and drugs: clients’ accounts of leaving welfare. Social Service Review, 77 (4) 499-522