Congratulations to ARG Scientific Director and Senior Scientist Thomas (Tom) K. Greenfield, co-winner of the 2019 E.M. Jellinek Memorial Award, one of the highest international honors in the field of alcohol and alcoholism research for his work in the area of epidemiology and population studies. Fellow researcher and professor in the Department of Addiction Medicine at the Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne in Switzerland Gerhard Gmel shares the award. Former ARG … [Read more...]
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Stricter Policies Lower the Risk of Being Hurt by Someone Who’s Been Drinking
In the US, adults under age forty living in states with more restrictive alcohol policies experience fewer aggression- and drink-driving-related harms from someone else’s drinking than those in states with weaker policies, a new NIAAA-supported study from the Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, found. Results showed that for a 10-point increase in restrictiveness of an alcohol policy scale, including for instance alcohol availability, taxation and drink-driving laws, the odds of … [Read more...]
New Grant Looks at Suicide Risk & AUD Among American Indian People in Southern California
Led by Cindy Ehlers at Scripps Research Institute, sub-award recipient and ARG Senior Scientist Katherine Karriker-Jaffe will provide expertise in neighborhood effects and disparities research for the new project. ARG Biostatistician Libo Li and Research Associate Deidre Patterson along with Assistant Professor and suicide expert Rebecca Bernert at Stanford round out the team. The grant supports the development of a multilevel bio-psychosocial-ecological model of risk and protective factors for … [Read more...]
Alcohol’s Secondhand Harms’ Project Wraps Up with Significant Results
Led by Co-PIs Katherine Karriker-Jaffe and Thomas K. Greenfield, the project on Alcohol’s Harms to Others Among US Adults: Individual and Contextual Effects wrapped up recently after resulting in multiple published works, with several new publications on the horizon. The project, which looked at how someone’s drinking affects their spouse or partner or other family member including children, used data from four cycles of ARG’s National Alcohol Survey (NAS), including the latest completed in … [Read more...]
Alcohol policies aimed at stopping pregnant women from drinking cause worse birth outcomes, increase public health costs
State-level alcohol/drug pregnancy policies lead to increased low birthweight and preterm births, costing millions of dollars per year A new study finds that several state-level policies targeting alcohol and drug use during pregnancy lead to greater numbers of low birthweight (LBW) and preterm births (PTB), resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars more in public health spending each year. The study—a collaboration between the Alcohol Research Group (ARG), a program of the Public Health … [Read more...]
NIH Study will Assess Drinking Patterns, Lifestyle Factors & Chronic Conditions In Asian Americans
Associate Scientist Won Kim Cook's new project seeks to better understand the risk relationship between harmful drinking patterns and chronic health conditions, in particular cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease (CVD), which is the leading cause of death for Asian Americans. Her work will also look at diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol as conditions that increase Asian American's risk for CVD. Won's three-year study (NIAAA R21AA026654) is the first US-based research to examine … [Read more...]
Grant Awarded to Assess Community College Smoke-free Policies
Congratulations to Associate Scientist Camillia Lui who received funding to study how campus and community influence smoke-free policy adoption in community colleges. With community colleges often under-resourced and under-funded, and given that the student population is racially/ethnically diverse, disproportionately lower-income, and at greater risk for tobacco-related harms compared to 4-year colleges, Camillia's work aims to identify factors and best strategies that influence and … [Read more...]
Dried Blood Spot Sampling Finds Return Rates Differ by Race/Ethnicity and Education
New research is first to assess the use of dried blood spot collection in a large national study In the first study to assess the feasibility of obtaining a mail-in, dried blood spot (DBS) sample from large national surveys in the U.S., results showed return rates differed across racial/ethnic groups and educational attainment. Specifically, Blacks and Latinos, and people with a high school education or below were less likely to return a DBS sample than Whites and those with a college education … [Read more...]
Self-administered Intervention Reduces Alcohol Consumption among Women who are Risky Drinkers
Study shows efficacy of digital tool as a harm reduction strategy A new study from ARG Scientist Madhabika Nayak and colleagues found that women who were risky drinkers and completed an electronic screening and brief intervention (e-SBI) program called DrinkWise significantly reduced their weekly alcohol use and heavy alcohol use at the six-month follow up, compared to those who did not complete the program. This is the first non-intensive (single session), self-administered e-SBI in English … [Read more...]
People with AUD may be able to substitute cannabis for alcohol
New study links moderate cannabis use to persistent alcohol problems; finds no association for heavier or lighter use People with a lifetime alcohol use disorder (AUD) who used cannabis moderately had 2.83 times the number of drinks and experienced 6.82 times greater odds of alcohol-related harms than abstainers, according to a new study from ARG biostatistician and lead author Meenakshi Sabina Subbaraman and colleagues. Mid-level cannabis users also had an increased number of heavy … [Read more...]
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