Alison Looby, Katherine A Berry, Mark A Prince, Luke Herchenroeder, Adrian J Bravo, Bradley T Conner, Laura J Holt, Ty S Schepis, Ellen W Yeung
{"title":"Differences in alcohol-related variables between individuals who engage in food and alcohol disturbance (FAD) behaviors and those who only use alcohol: The role of FAD motives.","authors":"Alison Looby, Katherine A Berry, Mark A Prince, Luke Herchenroeder, Adrian J Bravo, Bradley T Conner, Laura J Holt, Ty S Schepis, Ellen W Yeung","doi":"10.15288/jsad.24-00067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15288/jsad.24-00067","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Food and alcohol disturbance (FAD) is the use of any compensatory behavior (e.g., skipping meals) within the context of a drinking episode. FAD has two underlying motives: to enhance the effects of alcohol (FAD-AE) and/or compensate for calories consumed from alcohol (FAD-CC). Prior work finds that FAD is positively associated with alcohol-related outcomes; however, it is unclear whether FAD confers increased risk above alcohol use alone, and whether there are differences in alcohol outcomes by FAD motive. Thus, the present study evaluated alcohol use patterns (i.e., past-month quantity/frequency, binge use, consequences, and drinking motives) by FAD status and FAD motives.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Data were from the Stimulant Norms and Prevalence 2 (SNAP2) study, which included 5,809 undergraduates from six US universities. Participants were grouped into four categories: Alcohol-Only, FAD-AE, FAD-CC, and FAD-both (i.e., both FAD-AE and FAD-CC motives). Ordinary least squares regression was used for drinking motives and quasi-Poisson regressions were used for other outcomes.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Alcohol use quantity, frequency, binge use, and consequences were all greatest in the FAD-both group and lowest in the alcohol-only group, with the FAD-AE and FAD-CC groups intermediate and not significantly different from each other. To illustrate, the FAD-both group had 47%, 33%, and 25% greater alcohol-related consequences than the Alcohol-Only, FAD-CC, and FAD-AE groups, respectively. This stepwise pattern held for drinking motives, with fewer significant differences.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Engagement in FAD is linked to increased likelihood of poor alcohol outcomes versus alcohol use alone, and FAD for both motives represents the highest risk group.</p>","PeriodicalId":17159,"journal":{"name":"Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142289856","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}
Brian H Calhoun, Anne M Fairlie, Isaac C Rhew, Theresa Walter, Christine M Lee
{"title":"An Expanded Daily Alcohol Expectancies Measure: Results on the Multilevel Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties.","authors":"Brian H Calhoun, Anne M Fairlie, Isaac C Rhew, Theresa Walter, Christine M Lee","doi":"10.15288/jsad.23-00206","DOIUrl":"10.15288/jsad.23-00206","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Alcohol expectancies are beliefs people have about the likelihood of experiencing various positive or negative consequences related to alcohol use. Expectancies have most commonly been treated as traitlike characteristics of individuals, but some researchers have assessed expectancies as state-level characteristics that vary within persons across days. Previous work developed a 13-item daily alcohol expectancies measure. This study evaluated an expanded version of that measure that includes 10 additional expectancy items.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Participants were 2- and 4-year college students (<i>N</i> = 201; 63.7% female; 55.2% White non-Hispanic; 75.1% 4-year students) randomized to the control group of a longitudinal study designed to test the efficacy of a just-in-time adaptive intervention delivered via mobile app to reduce high-risk alcohol use. Multilevel exploratory factor analysis was used to determine the factor structure at the daily and person levels. Multilevel models were used to evaluate the convergent validity of the resulting subscales.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Two factors, broadly representing positive and negative alcohol expectancies, were retained at the daily and person levels. Composite reliability (omega) estimates ranged from .85 to .96 and suggested that the reliability of the resulting subscales was good to strong. Associations between the daily expectancy subscales and baseline scores on an established expectancies measure provided preliminary evidence of convergent validity.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Findings indicate that this expanded 23-item daily alcohol expectancies measure is psychometrically sound. This measure is appropriate for use in daily or just-in-time expectancy challenge interventions. It is suitable for use among 2- and 4-year college students who drink alcohol regularly and occasionally in heavy quantities and who experience alcohol-related negative consequences.</p>","PeriodicalId":17159,"journal":{"name":"Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":"742-749"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11533923/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139996562","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":"Event-Level Drinking Intentions, Social Drinking Contexts, and Motives Affect Alcohol Consumption Among Same-Sex Female Couples.","authors":"Megan Strowger, Abby L Braitman, Robin J Lewis","doi":"10.15288/jsad.23-00203","DOIUrl":"10.15288/jsad.23-00203","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Young sexual minority women (SMW; e.g., lesbian, bisexual women) are at increased risk for heavy drinking, although SMW in relationships may be at less risk than those who are single. The current study examined how SMW partners influence drinking in the moment, if their own intentions predict drinking beyond partner influence and if this association is moderated by partner influence, and if their own drinking motives moderate partner influence.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Young adult same-sex female couples (<i>N</i> = 162 couples) were recruited to participate in a 14-day daily diary study where they reported each morning their drinking intentions, motives, and behavior as well as whether their partner was present during drinking occasions.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Findings from multilevel structural equation models revealed that own intentions and select partner influences (i.e., intentions, drinking) were uniquely linked to a greater quantity of drinking at the within-subject level. Significant interactions between own intentions and partner intentions, and between partner intentions and select drinking motives (social and enhancement), on same-day alcohol use were found at the within-subject level.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Findings suggest that partner influences have a strong effect on drinking at the daily level and can be strengthened or weakened when drinking for specific reasons. These findings expand on prior daily diary research on the effects of drinking motives by examining how these processes unfold in same-sex female couples and their intersection with partner intentions.</p>","PeriodicalId":17159,"journal":{"name":"Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":"720-727"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11533932/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140189822","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}
Anna Mejldal, Anette Søgaard Nielsen, Sara Wallhed Finn
{"title":"Seasonal Variations in Treatment Seeking for Alcohol Use Disorder in the Total Danish Population.","authors":"Anna Mejldal, Anette Søgaard Nielsen, Sara Wallhed Finn","doi":"10.15288/jsad.23-00269","DOIUrl":"10.15288/jsad.23-00269","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>A minority of all individuals with alcohol use disorder (AUD) seek treatment. Contextual factors associated with treatment seeking are poorly understood. It is known that the level of alcohol consumed varies between seasons of the year. However, it is not known to what extent treatment seeking for AUD also varies between seasons. This study aims to investigate seasonal variations in treatment seeking for AUD.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The study design was a time-series analysis. The study population consisted of adults age 18 years and older in Denmark seeking AUD treatment. The outcomes were the following two measures of changes in treatment seeking: (a) treatment entry and (b) filled prescription of AUD pharmacotherapy. Data came from the National Alcohol Treatment Register on treatment entries for specialist addiction care and National Prescription Registry for filled prescriptions on AUD pharmacotherapies from 2013 to 2018. Analysis was a segmented negative binomial regression.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Treatment seeking for AUD showed clear seasonal variations, with the lowest numbers in December and from March to April. In January, treatment seeking was highest, with a decline around July and a subsequent slight rise from August to October.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The findings emphasize the importance of contextual factors when developing and evaluating interventions to increase treatment seeking for AUD.</p>","PeriodicalId":17159,"journal":{"name":"Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":"674-681"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139996563","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":"Corrigendum for Polenick et al. (2018).","authors":"","doi":"10.15288/jsad.24-00999","DOIUrl":"10.15288/jsad.24-00999","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17159,"journal":{"name":"Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs","volume":"85 5","pages":"765-766"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11614139/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142468537","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}
Margeaux E Cannon, Jessica L Martin, Evan E Ozmat, Corey M Monley, Cara L Fresquez, Junsung Oh, M Dolores Cimini
{"title":"Discrimination, Drinking to Cope, Protective Behavioral Strategies, and Alcohol-Related Consequences Among University Students.","authors":"Margeaux E Cannon, Jessica L Martin, Evan E Ozmat, Corey M Monley, Cara L Fresquez, Junsung Oh, M Dolores Cimini","doi":"10.15288/jsad.23-00152","DOIUrl":"10.15288/jsad.23-00152","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>University students who experience more discrimination typically report more negative consequences from alcohol use. The study aimed to assess whether drinking to cope and protective behavioral strategies for alcohol use would help explain the relationship between everyday discrimination and alcohol-related consequences among university student drinkers.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Data were collected in Fall 2020, and the sample included 707 undergraduate and graduate students from a large public institution in the Northeast who reported consuming alcohol in the past month. Participants identified predominantly as women (71.7%; 24.6% men) and White (65.1%; 7.9% Black/African American; 7.2% Asian/Asian American; 7.1% Hispanic/Latinx). A cross-sectional serial mediation analysis using structural equation modeling was conducted using Mplus.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>When we controlled for alcohol use, results supported a serial partial mediation model. More experiences of discrimination predicted a significant increase in alcohol-related consequences, above and beyond the increase attributed to drinking to cope. More frequent use of protective behavioral strategies significantly increased the odds of reporting no alcohol-related consequences.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Drinking to cope and protective behavioral strategies for alcohol use may help explain why university students who report frequent discrimination are more likely to experience alcohol-related consequences, independent of how much alcohol they consume. Findings can inform clinical and prevention practice, advocacy, and training.</p>","PeriodicalId":17159,"journal":{"name":"Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":"694-703"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140143713","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}
Natalie Sumetsky, Maria Mori Brooks, Jeanine Buchanich, Brooke Molina, Christina Mair
{"title":"Changes in Six Categories of Alcohol-Attributable Mortality From Before to During the Early Phases of the COVID-19 Pandemic.","authors":"Natalie Sumetsky, Maria Mori Brooks, Jeanine Buchanich, Brooke Molina, Christina Mair","doi":"10.15288/jsad.23-00187","DOIUrl":"10.15288/jsad.23-00187","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The shelter-in-place mandates enacted early in the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in changes in alcohol use and consequent outcomes. We assessed changes in six categories of season-specific alcohol-attributable mortality from before to during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We used logistic regression models to assess alcohol-attributable mortality in the United States from 2017 through 2020 (<i>n</i> = 11,632,725 decedents ages 18 and older). Outcomes included chronic fully alcohol-attributable deaths, poisonings, motor vehicle accidents, suicides, homicides, and falls. Exposure variables included year, season, the interaction between the year 2020 and season, rurality, the interaction between the year 2020 and rurality, decedent age, sex, race, ethnicity, marital status, and education.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Compared with 2019, season-specific mortality age-adjusted rates of chronic fully alcohol-attributable deaths, homicides, poisonings, and falls increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Suicide rates decreased in most 2020 seasons relative to the same seasons in 2019. Motor vehicle deaths decreased in spring 2020 versus 2019. Relative to dying by any other cause, the odds of death by chronic fully alcohol-attributable causes and poisonings were higher across seasons in 2020 versus 2019. The odds of death by suicide were higher among residents of rural counties in spring 2020 versus 2019.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>There were distinct temporal changes in six types of alcohol-attributable deaths during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>","PeriodicalId":17159,"journal":{"name":"Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":"658-666"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140119864","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":"A Perspective on Psychedelics as Treatments for Addictions.","authors":"David J Nutt, Celia Morgan, Sukhpreet Klaire","doi":"10.15288/jsad.23-00032","DOIUrl":"10.15288/jsad.23-00032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17159,"journal":{"name":"Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":"583-588"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140189889","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":"Examining NSDUH's Assessment of Fentanyl Use: A Comparison of Trends in Fentanyl Use and Fentanyl Overdose Deaths From 2015 to 2020.","authors":"James Aluri, Ramin Mojtabai, Eric C Strain","doi":"10.15288/jsad.23-00247","DOIUrl":"10.15288/jsad.23-00247","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), as the primary source of epidemiological substance use data in the United States, could illuminate trends in fentanyl use behaviors contributing to the opioid overdose crisis. We hypothesized that the trend in NSDUH prevalence of lifetime fentanyl injection would match the direction and magnitude of the trend in synthetic opioid overdose deaths.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Using logistic regression, we modeled the 2015-2020 trend in synthetic opioid overdose deaths as a proportion of all deaths. We modeled contemporary trends from cross-sectional NSDUH data for (a) lifetime fentanyl injection, (b) past-year prescription fentanyl misuse, (c) prescription tramadol misuse (the other synthetic opioid counted alongside fentanyl in the overdose deaths category), and (d) combined prescription fentanyl or tramadol misuse. The average annual NSDUH weighted sample size was 272,519,038 (51.5% female, 48.5% male).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Synthetic opioid overdose deaths increased from 2015 to 2020 (odds ratio = 3.39, meaning that the odds of a death being from synthetic opioid overdose in 2020 were 3.39 times the odds of death from that cause in 2015, 95% CI [3.34, 3.44]). None of the substance use trends significantly increased.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Per NSDUH data, the prevalence of fentanyl misuse did not significantly increase in tandem with synthetic opioid overdose deaths from 2015 to 2020. Scrutiny of NSDUH's approach to assessing fentanyl misuse casts doubt on the utility of NSDUH fentanyl data collection. We acknowledge recent changes to the survey and recommend two further changes to optimize a vital source of data on behaviors related to the opioid overdose crisis.</p>","PeriodicalId":17159,"journal":{"name":"Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":"713-719"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140336115","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}
Dominique Morisano, Thomas F Babor, Brian Rush, Doris Payer
{"title":"From Research to Reality: Crafting an Image of the Current State of Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapies for Substance Use Disorders.","authors":"Dominique Morisano, Thomas F Babor, Brian Rush, Doris Payer","doi":"10.15288/jsad.24-00208","DOIUrl":"10.15288/jsad.24-00208","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17159,"journal":{"name":"Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":"577-582"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141878945","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}