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...]
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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...]
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...]
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