Funding: NIAAA R01 AA09271
The project tested standard screening instruments (CAGE, brief MAST, AUDIT, TWEAK, History of Trauma scale) and developed new measures that were sensitive, specific, and efficient for identifying harmful drinking and alcohol dependence among injured and noninjured in emergency room settings; compared an abbreviated set of consequences of drinking and of dependency experiences with screening measures and with a standard diagnostic instrument (CIDI); and compared the associations of demographic and drinking characteristics with data of consequences and dependency experiences from the California Bay Area. The first site was the ER at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (a comparison of whites and Blacks), the second at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (a comparison of Blacks, Hispanics, and whites).
