For most of her career, scientist Amy Mericle, PhD, has worked in treatment and recovery research, including recovery housing. Her latest project, funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), aims to develop and provide a complete picture of the national recovery housing landscape in the US, which will help better understand how this model effectively supports a person's recovery from addiction. The four-year study will gather information on the availability … [Read more...]
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New Project Identifies Education Resilience Factors in Diverse Groups
ARG scientist Nina Mulia's new project seeks to investigate the long-term effects of early childhood adversity on educational success and substance use, from birth though young adulthood. Previous, and extensive, studies have found a link between education and substance use problems. However, understanding what the causal mechanisms are is limited. Some researchers hypothesize that early life factors may play a role. There is also growing evidence that suggests a child's behavioral and … [Read more...]
US Drinking Norms Updated
As a practitioner, one way to assess your clients' drinking habits is to have them compare their current consumption level to how much the rest of the nation is drinking. ARG senior scientist, Thomas K. Greenfield and biostatistician Yu Ye took data from the 2015 National Alcohol Survey (NAS) consisting of individuals residing in 50 states and Washington DC, and looked at the number of drinks both women and men said they consumed per week on average in the previous 12 months. Ask your … [Read more...]
New Grant Assesses Effect of Marijuana Legalization
Senior scientist William C. Kerr and colleagues' new grant investigates the effects of recreational legalization of marijuana and local policy implementation in Washington State. This project will provide a wealth of new information relevant to the impacts of legalization and local marijuana regulation, as well as inter-relationships between marijuana and other substance use problems over time. The grant is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Previously, ARG was … [Read more...]
40-year-old Alcohol Survey Launches New Series with Key Innovations
Since the mid-1960s, the National Alcohol Survey (NAS) has been collecting data on how Americans drink – who’s drinking, how much, how often, and where, as well as the problems that arise from our patterns of consumption. A lot has changed since the early surveys – we’ve been to the moon and back and can now reach the other side of the world with the click of a mouse – and with these changes, the NAS has grown, adapted, and become an even more essential tool in understanding alcohol’s effects on … [Read more...]
New treatment program helps women significantly reduce how much they drink even after treatment ends
A new clinical trial shows that intensive motivational interviewing (IMI), an intervention that was first used to treat methamphetamine dependence, is highly effective in curbing how much women with alcohol problems drank two months after the program ended with consumption levels sustained at the six-month follow-up. Women who were heavy drinkers experienced the greatest effect. Heavy drinking was defined as drinking 14 or more days to the point of intoxication over the past 30 days. The study … [Read more...]
Alcohol causes significant harm to those other than the drinker
Each year, one in five U.S. adults -- an estimated 53 million people -- experience harm because of someone else’s drinking, according to new research in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. Similar to how policymakers have addressed the effects of secondhand smoke over the last two decades, society needs to combat the secondhand effects of drinking, the authors state, calling alcohol’s harm to others “a significant public health issue.” According to the study -- an analysis of U.S. … [Read more...]
Winner of the 2019 E.M. Jellinek Memorial Award
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...]
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...]
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