Lauren Micalizzi, Alexander W Sokolovsky, L Morgan Snell, Mariel S Bello, Jasjit S Ahluwalia, Dale Dagar Maglalang, Sarah F Maloney
{"title":"Balancing Public Health Priorities: Navigating the Complex Landscape of E-Cigarette Flavor Regulation.","authors":"Lauren Micalizzi, Alexander W Sokolovsky, L Morgan Snell, Mariel S Bello, Jasjit S Ahluwalia, Dale Dagar Maglalang, Sarah F Maloney","doi":"10.15288/jsad.24-00440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15288/jsad.24-00440","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17159,"journal":{"name":"Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144078646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brittney A Hultgren, Brian H Calhoun, Jessica Canning, Nicole Fossos-Wong, Katarina Guttmannova, Jason R Kilmer, Jennifer M Cadigan, Mary E Larimer, Christine M Lee
{"title":"Blood Alcohol Content Estimation Formulas (eBAC): Challenges, Considerations, and Implications for Intensive and Longitudinal Survey Research.","authors":"Brittney A Hultgren, Brian H Calhoun, Jessica Canning, Nicole Fossos-Wong, Katarina Guttmannova, Jason R Kilmer, Jennifer M Cadigan, Mary E Larimer, Christine M Lee","doi":"10.15288/jsad.24-00424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15288/jsad.24-00424","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17159,"journal":{"name":"Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144078657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Harm reduction research: A vital step in combating the opioid overdose crisis.","authors":"Khary K Rigg","doi":"10.15288/jsad.25-00154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15288/jsad.25-00154","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17159,"journal":{"name":"Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143970855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sara A Flores, Arham Hassan, Benjamin N Montemayor
{"title":"Understanding College Students' Help-Seeking Intentions for Alcohol Use: A Theoretical and Network-Based Approach.","authors":"Sara A Flores, Arham Hassan, Benjamin N Montemayor","doi":"10.15288/jsad.24-00280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15288/jsad.24-00280","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite alcohol use remaining a prevalent issue on college campuses, the number of students who seek help remains low. The Reasoned Action Approach (RAA) provides a theoretical framework for understanding the psychosocial drivers of help-seeking intentions, while social networks offer additional potential utility by shaping norms and attitudes that influence these behaviors.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study investigated the association between college students' social network characteristics, the RAA, and intentions to seek help for alcohol use if they thought or knew they had a problem.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Cross-sectional survey data from 1,447 college students were extracted from a larger, nationally representative college student quota sample. Inclusion criteria were between 18 to 24 years of age, enrolled full time in a college or university, reported past-year alcohol consumption, and passed data quality checks. Participants reported demographics, RAA constructs, and egocentric network data. Network composition variables were calculated via E-Net. Descriptive statistics and hierarchical linear regression analyses were conducted to examine intentions to seek help.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A regression model consisting of RAA constructs was statistically significant at the <i>p</i> < .001 level, accounting for nearly 40% of the variance in help-seeking intentions. The addition of network composition variables increased the explained variance by an additional 2.8%, which was statistically significant at the <i>p</i> < .001 level.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Integrating RAA constructs with social network characteristics can help identify specific individual beliefs and social influences that can be targeted to strengthen help-seeking intentions and behaviors among college students who engage in high-risk drinking.</p>","PeriodicalId":17159,"journal":{"name":"Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143971192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kenneth S Kendler, Sara L Lönn, Jan Sundquist, Kristina Sundquist
{"title":"The Impact of a Registry-Based Environmental Risk Score on Episodes of Alcohol Use Disorder and Drug Use Disorder in Swedish National Samples.","authors":"Kenneth S Kendler, Sara L Lönn, Jan Sundquist, Kristina Sundquist","doi":"10.15288/jsad.25-00035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15288/jsad.25-00035","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Psychosocial stress increases the risk for subsequent episodes of alcohol use disorder (AUD) and drug use disorder (DUD), with most studies assessing stress exposure by questionnaire or interview methods. We developed an environmental risk score (ERS) using multiple classes of stressful life events (SLEs) obtained from national Swedish registries.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We assessed, in the entire adult population of Sweden (<i>n</i> = 7,105,712), the occurrence of 51 categories of SLEs derived from registry information for the six months prior to 9/1/2010 and the risk for AUD and DUD registration over the subsequent 18 months. Weights for these two ERSs were obtained from a random half of our sample, and the relationship of ERS to AUD and DUD evaluated in the second half.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The ERS strongly predicted subsequent AUD and DUD episodes. Men were more sensitive to the pathogenic effect of the ERS than women. Those with prior episodes of AUD and DUD had larger absolute increases in ERS-associated AUD and DUD risk than those without previous episodes. Genetic risk for AUD and DUD were associated with greater sensitivity to the pathogenic effects of the ERS. A co-sibling control analysis suggested that a large proportion of the ERS-AUD and ERS-DUD associations were causal.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Valid measures of environmental risks that predispose to AUD and DUD can be assessed from SLEs obtained from high quality national registry data. Importantly, this method avoids prior assessment problems of accurate dating and recall bias and can be performed in large samples.</p>","PeriodicalId":17159,"journal":{"name":"Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143998580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Matthew E Rossheim, Ryan D Treffers, Alicia C Sparks, Michael Sparks, Kayla K Tillett, Cassidy R LoParco, Pamela J Trangenstein, Scott T Walters, Michael Siegel, David H Jernigan
{"title":"The Evolving Alcohol Landscape: Implications for Public Health and Policy.","authors":"Matthew E Rossheim, Ryan D Treffers, Alicia C Sparks, Michael Sparks, Kayla K Tillett, Cassidy R LoParco, Pamela J Trangenstein, Scott T Walters, Michael Siegel, David H Jernigan","doi":"10.15288/jsad.24-00339","DOIUrl":"10.15288/jsad.24-00339","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17159,"journal":{"name":"Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":"323-329"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142729891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vi T Le, Jennifer A Bailey, Jessica A Heerde, Gabriel J Merrin, Ebru A Batmaz, Adrian B Kelly, John W Toumbourou
{"title":"The Roles of Alcohol Availability, Overserving, and Enforcement in Recreational and Social Settings on Alcohol Misuse and Harms: A Comparison of Australia and the United States.","authors":"Vi T Le, Jennifer A Bailey, Jessica A Heerde, Gabriel J Merrin, Ebru A Batmaz, Adrian B Kelly, John W Toumbourou","doi":"10.15288/jsad.24-00036","DOIUrl":"10.15288/jsad.24-00036","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The purpose of this study was to examine how alcohol availability, overserving, and enforcement in recreational and social settings are related to alcohol misuse and alcohol-impaired driving among young adults in Victoria, Australia, and Washington State, United States.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Longitudinal data came from 1,430 participants in Victoria (<i>n</i> = 757; 52% female) and Washington (<i>n</i> = 673; 53% female), surveyed in 2014 (age 25 years) and 2018 (age 29 years) from the International Youth Development Study, a population-based, cross-national study to examine factors influencing substance use. Path modeling tested associations between age 25 perceptions of the alcohol environment, age 25 social alcohol consumption, and age 29 alcohol-related harms. Multiple-group modeling examined differences in parameter estimates across both states.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Age 25 perceptions of the alcohol environment (alcohol availability, overservice in evening social venues, legal enforcement) and alcohol consumption in evening social settings were similar between the two states. Higher alcohol availability and perceived tendency of evening social venues to overserve were associated with higher alcohol consumption in these contexts. In turn, higher alcohol consumption in these settings was associated with more problematic alcohol use and an increased likelihood of alcohol-impaired driving 4 years later. The perceived likelihood of legal enforcement in evening social settings was not related to alcohol consumption in these contexts.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The recreational and social settings commonly frequented by young adults can influence drinking behaviors and alcohol-related harms. Reducing alcohol availability and overservicing in settings where young adults often congregate and socialize could reduce problematic alcohol use and alcohol-impaired driving.</p>","PeriodicalId":17159,"journal":{"name":"Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":"340-348"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12081172/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141913026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
April C May, Lauren H Stephens, Eric P Kraybill, Dieter J Meyerhoff, Timothy C Durazzo
{"title":"Frontal Brain N-Acetylaspartate at Treatment Entry is Related to Future World Health Organization Risk Drinking Levels in Individuals With Alcohol Use Disorder.","authors":"April C May, Lauren H Stephens, Eric P Kraybill, Dieter J Meyerhoff, Timothy C Durazzo","doi":"10.15288/jsad.24-00168","DOIUrl":"10.15288/jsad.24-00168","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The purpose of this study was to assess the viability of regional brain metabolite levels of individuals with alcohol use disorder (AUD) at treatment entry as a biomarker of posttreatment levels of alcohol use, categorized according to the World Health Organization risk drinking levels (WHO-RDL).</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Eighty-five individuals initiating treatment for AUD (16 ± 13 days after last alcohol consumption) and 45 light/nondrinking controls completed a 1.5T proton multislice magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging study. N-acetylaspartate (NAA), a marker of neuronal viability, and other metabolites were quantitated for cortical gray matter, white matter, and select subcortical regions. Individuals with AUD were classified according to their posttreatment alcohol consumption as abstainers (<i>n</i> = 42), low-risk (<i>n</i> = 20), or higher risk (<i>n</i> = 23) participants based on the WHO-RDL taxonomy.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Within frontal gray matter, higher risk participants exhibited significantly lower NAA levels than light/nondrinking controls and abstainers but did not differ from low-risk participants. Higher risk participants had significantly lower NAA concentration in frontal white matter than all groups who did not significantly differ from one another. Higher risk participants showed significantly lower parietal white matter NAA than light/nondrinking controls and abstainers; low-risk and higher risk participants did not differ from one another. Across higher risk and low risk, lower frontal gray matter and white matter NAA were related to shorter periods of abstinence before first posttreatment alcohol consumption and longer posttreatment duration of alcohol resumption. There were no significant group differences in myo-inositol or choline- or creatine-containing compound concentrations.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Frontal and parietal lobar NAA concentrations, near treatment entry, are associated with WHO-RDL categorized posttreatment alcohol consumption levels and may serve as predictive biomarkers of clinical outcomes following treatment for AUD.</p>","PeriodicalId":17159,"journal":{"name":"Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":"416-423"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12081170/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141913025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bradley M Trager, Lucy E Napper, Oliver J Hatch, Reed M Morgan, Sarah C Boyle, Joseph W LaBrie
{"title":"It's Not Just What Parents Say, It's Why They Say It: Students' Perceptions of Parents' Motives for Alcohol Communication.","authors":"Bradley M Trager, Lucy E Napper, Oliver J Hatch, Reed M Morgan, Sarah C Boyle, Joseph W LaBrie","doi":"10.15288/jsad.24-00045","DOIUrl":"10.15288/jsad.24-00045","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Previous work has investigated parents' reports of motives for communicating with their young adults about alcohol. Although parents' self-reported motives may predict intentions to communicate, young adults' perceptions of their parents' motives may be important for understanding young adults' responses to parental alcohol communication. The present study was conducted to explore college students' perceptions of their parents' motives for alcohol communication and to investigate whether perceptions of these motives predict changes in alcohol consumption and related consequences during the transition to college.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>First-year college students (<i>n</i> = 306) participated in a longitudinal survey study. Baseline measures at pre-matriculation (Time 1) included assessments of student perceptions of their parents' motives for alcohol communication and covariates (e.g., perceived peer descriptive drinking norms, parental modeling and alcohol communication, and drinking and consequences). At a 1-month follow-up (Time 2), students reported on their alcohol use and consequences.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>When we controlled for other predictors of college student drinking, results indicated that for each one-unit increase in perceived parental reactive communication motives, the incidence rate of typical weekly drinking increased by 9%, and heavy episodic drinking (HED) increased by 21%. Conversely, the incidence rate of HED decreased by 27% for each one-unit increase in perceived maternal family history communication motives.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings suggest that college students' perceptions of their parents' motives for alcohol communication can significantly influence their drinking behavior during the transition to college.</p>","PeriodicalId":17159,"journal":{"name":"Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":"446-454"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12081168/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142289857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trends in Cannabis-Related Hospitalizations in Arizona From 2016 to 2021 and Associations With Mental Health-Related Hospitalizations.","authors":"Madeline H Meier, Haley M Hummel, Matt L Miller","doi":"10.15288/jsad.23-00379","DOIUrl":"10.15288/jsad.23-00379","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The purpose of this study was to examine trends in cannabis-related hospital visits in Arizona from 2016 to 2021 and associations with hospital visits for a mental health condition.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Data were emergency department and inpatient hospital discharge records from all Arizona licensed hospitals from 2016 to 2021. Records comprised 18,758,614 hospital visits. Cannabis-related visits were defined by International Classification of Diseases (ICD) diagnostic codes for cannabis use (unspecified use, abuse, dependence) or poisoning. Mental health visits were defined by ICD diagnostic codes for mental health conditions.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The rate of cannabis-related hospital visits increased from 1,301.50 per 100,000 visits in 2016 to 1,565.54 per 100,000 visits in 2021, a 20% increase. The increase was larger for visits by adolescents and older adults ages 65+: 63.94% and 84.45%, respectively. Cannabis-related visits were 7.75 (95% CI [7.69, 7.81]) times as likely as visits unrelated to cannabis to have a mental health condition as the primary diagnosis from 2016 to 2021 and were 2.32 (95% CI [2.30, 2.34]) times as likely after adjustment for covariates, including alcohol and other substance-related diagnoses. The association between cannabis-related visits and mental health-related visits increased each year, particularly for older adults ages 65+.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The rate of cannabis-related hospital visits is increasing, as is the cannabis-related risk of a hospital visit for a mental health condition. The increases are especially pronounced among hospital visits by older adults (ages 65+), highlighting the need for prevention and intervention in this under-recognized at-risk group.</p>","PeriodicalId":17159,"journal":{"name":"Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":"436-445"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12081169/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142349044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}