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A 10-year national trend study of alcohol consumption, 1984-1995: is the period of declining drinking over?T K Greenfield
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, Berkeley, Calif 94709 2167, USA
Am J Public Health 90:47-52. 2000..Data from the 1984, 1990, and 1995 National Alcohol Surveys were used to investigate whether declines shown previously in drinking and heavy drinking across many demographic subgroups have continued...- Alcohol measurement methodology in epidemiology: recent advances and opportunitiesThomas K Greenfield
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, 6475 Christie Avenue, Suite 400, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA
Addiction 103:1082-99. 2008..To review and discuss measurement issues in survey assessment of alcohol consumption for epidemiological studies... - A randomized trial of a mental health consumer-managed alternative to civil commitment for acute psychiatric crisisThomas K Greenfield
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, 6475 Christie Ave, Suite 400, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA
Am J Community Psychol 42:135-44. 2008..CRP-style facilities are a viable alternative to psychiatric hospitalization for many individuals facing civil commitment... - Modeling cognitive influences on drinking and alcohol problemsThomas K Greenfield
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, 6475 Christie Avenue, Suite 400, Emeryville, California 94608, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 70:78-86. 2009..It is hypothesized that alcohol-related cognitions will relate directly to drinking behaviors and indirectly to alcohol dependence... - Externalities from alcohol consumption in the 2005 US National Alcohol Survey: implications for policyThomas K Greenfield
Alcohol Research Group, 6475 Christie Avenue, Suite 400, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA
Int J Environ Res Public Health 6:3205-24. 2009..Being unmarried, older, white and ever having monthly heavy drinking or alcohol problems was associated with more alcohol externalities. Publicizing external costs of drinking could elevate political will for effective alcohol controls... - Validating alcohol use measures among male drinkers in Goa: implications for research on alcohol, sexual risk, and HIV in IndiaThomas K Greenfield
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, 6475 Christie Ave, Suite 400, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA
AIDS Behav 14:S84-93. 2010..Summary drinking pattern measures, especially the new F-GF, are more cost efficient than intensive event records, and appear valid when carefully assessing quantities with local beverage types and drink ethanol content... 
Effects of depression and social integration on the relationship between alcohol consumption and all-cause mortalityTom K Greenfield
Alcohol Research Group, Berkeley, California 94709 2130, USA
Addiction 97:29-38. 2002..Two social variables and their interactions with alcohol consumption were added, the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D) scale and an eight-item social isolation scale...- Ways of measuring drinking patterns and the difference they make: experience with graduated frequenciesT K Greenfield
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA
J Subst Abuse 12:33-49. 2000..Uses for each measure are considered, and recommendations are made for improvement and more thorough specification of drinking patterns... - Alcoholic beverage choice, risk perception and self-reported drunk driving: effects of measurement on risk analysisT K Greenfield
Alcohol Research Group Public Health Institute, Berkeley, California, USA
Addiction 94:1735-43. 1999..The present study examined effects of measurement on risk curve analysis in an application involving prediction of frequency and indicator measures of drunk driving with beverage-specific alcohol consumption and risk perception measures... - Effects of telephone versus face-to-face interview modes on reports of alcohol consumptionT K Greenfield
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, Berkeley, CA 94709 2167, USA
Addiction 95:277-84. 2000..In order to assess the effects of survey modality on alcohol consumption estimates, data from two surveys using different interview modes (face-to-face and telephone) were compared on several alcohol measures... - Maximum quantity consumed and alcohol-related problems: assessing the most alcohol drunk with two measuresThomas K Greenfield
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 30:1576-82. 2006..This study examined the ability of 2 maximum measures, taken individually and in combination, to predict alcohol-related consequences and dependence symptoms... - Ethnic disparities in clinical severity and services for alcohol problems: results from the National Alcohol SurveyLaura A Schmidt
Institute for Health Policy Studies and the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, 3333 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 31:48-56. 2007..Prior studies report mixed findings as to the existence of ethnic disparities in alcohol services, with some suggesting that minorities are over-represented in treatment settings... - Drinking context and drinking problems among black, white, and Hispanic men and women in the 1984, 1995, and 2005 U.S. National Alcohol SurveysDan Nyaronga
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, 6475 Christie Avenue, Suite 400, Emeryville, California 94608, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 70:16-26. 2009.... - Addiction sciences and its psychometrics: the measurement of alcohol-related problemsLorraine T Midanik
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, Emeryville, CA 94720 7400, USA
Addiction 102:1701-10. 2007..The focus of this paper is on psychometric issues related to the measurement of alcohol problems... - Comorbidity for alcohol use disorders and drug use in mexican-origin groups: comparison of data from national alcohol surveys in the U.S. And MexicoCheryl J Cherpitel
Alcohol Research Group, Emeryville, California 94608, USA
Subst Use Misuse 42:1685-703. 2007.... - National and state estimates of the mean ethanol content of beer sold in the US and their impact on per capita consumption estimates: 1988 to 2001William C Kerr
Alcohol Research Group, Berkeley, California, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 28:1524-32. 2004..To address the lack of empirically based estimates of beer ethanol content, we have calculated national estimates for the years 1988 to 2001 and state-specific estimates for 1993 to 2001... - Not all drinks are created equal: implications for alcohol assessment in IndiaMadhabika B Nayak
Alcohol Research Group, 6475 Christie Avenue, Suite 400, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA
Alcohol Alcohol 43:713-8. 2008..There is sparse literature on drink alcohol content in developing countries. This study documented detailed information on drink sizes and ethanol content of alcoholic beverages consumed in three different parts of India... - Social disadvantage, stress, and alcohol use among black, Hispanic, and white Americans: findings from the 2005 U.S. National Alcohol SurveyNina Mulia
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, 6475 Christie Avenue, Suite 400, Emeryville, California 94608 1010, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 69:824-33. 2008..This study examines social disadvantage as a source of stress and analyzes its association with alcohol use and problems in the three largest racial/ethnic groups in the United States... - Gender, acculturation, and other barriers to alcohol treatment utilization among Latinos in three National Alcohol SurveysSarah E Zemore
Alcohol Research Group, 6475 Christie Ave, Suite 400, Emeryville, CA 94608 1010, USA
J Subst Abuse Treat 36:446-56. 2009..Associations between language of interview and treatment utilization imply a need for outreach and culturally sensitive programming... - Epidemiology of alcoholics anonymous participationLee Ann Kaskutas
Alcohol Research Group, Emeryville, CA 94608 1010, USA
Recent Dev Alcohol 18:261-82. 2008..Disengagement from AA does not appear to necessarily translate to loss of abstinence among those with initial high levels of AA exposure, but long-term abstinence is more likely among those with continued engagement... - Age-period-cohort modelling of alcohol volume and heavy drinking days in the US National Alcohol Surveys: divergence in younger and older adult trendsWilliam C Kerr
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA
Addiction 104:27-37. 2009..The decomposition of trends in alcohol volume and heavy drinking days into age, period, cohort and demographic effects offers an important perspective on the dynamics of change in alcohol use patterns in the United States... - Disparities in alcohol-related problems among white, black, and Hispanic AmericansNina Mulia
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, Emeryville, California 94608 1010, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 33:654-62. 2009..We examine whether and how disparities relate to heavy alcohol consumption and pattern, and the extent to which social disadvantage (poverty, unfair treatment, and racial/ethnic stigma) accounts for observed disparities... - Differences in the measured alcohol content of drinks between black, white and Hispanic men and women in a US national sampleWilliam C Kerr
Alcohol Research Group, 6475 Christie Avenue, Suite 400, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA
Addiction 104:1503-11. 2009..To measure and describe drink alcohol content differences between Hispanic, non-Hispanic white and non-Hispanic black men and women in the United States... - Large drinks are no mistake: glass size, not shape, affects alcoholic beverage drink poursWilliam C Kerr
Alcohol Research Group, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA
Drug Alcohol Rev 28:360-5. 2009..Alcohol content in drinks has been shown to be variable. This study evaluates claims regarding the effects of glass size and glass shape on the amount of alcohol served in on-premise drinks... - Detecting alcohol-related problems in developing countries: a comparison of 2 screening measures in IndiaMadhabika B Nayak
Alcohol Research Group, 6475 Christie Avenue, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 33:2057-66. 2009..This study critically evaluated the full and shorter versions of the AUDIT and RAPS4-QF as screening measures for alcohol use disorders (AUDs) in a community sample of male drinkers in Goa, India... - The average ethanol content of beer in the U.S. and individual states: estimates for use in aggregate consumption statisticsWilliam C Kerr
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, Berkeley, California 94709 2130, USA
J Stud Alcohol 64:70-4. 2003..s... - Partner alcohol use, violence and women's mental health: population-based survey in IndiaMadhabika B Nayak
Alcohol Research Group, 6475 Christie Avenue, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA
Br J Psychiatry 196:192-9. 2010..The relationship between partner alcohol use and violence as risk factors for poor mental health in women is unclear... - How do residents of recovery houses experience confrontation between entry and 12-month follow-up?Douglas L Polcin
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, 6475 Christie Avenue, Suite 400, Emeryville, CA 94608 1010, USA
J Psychoactive Drugs 42:49-62. 2010..At follow-up, the amount of confrontation participants received declined, but it continued to be generally experienced as supportive and helpful... - Alcohol-related injury and driving while intoxicated: a risk function analysis of two alcohol-related events in the 2000 and 2005 National Alcohol SurveysCheryl J Cherpitel
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, Emeryville, California 94608, USA
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 36:168-74. 2010..National population data on risk of alcohol-related injury or driving while intoxicated (DWI) are scarce... - Gender differences in public and private drinking contexts: a multi-level GENACIS analysisJason C Bond
Alcohol Research Group, Suite 400, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA
Int J Environ Res Public Health 7:2136-60. 2010..Similar studies that use only global measures of gender equality may miss key relationships. We consider potential implications for alcohol related consequences, policy and public health... - Alcohol content variation of bar and restaurant drinks in Northern CaliforniaWilliam C Kerr
Alcohol Research Group, Emeryville, California 94608, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 32:1623-9. 2008..To estimate the average of and sources of variation in the alcohol content of drinks served on premise in 10 Northern Californian counties... - Child physical and sexual abuse: a comprehensive look at alcohol consumption patterns, consequences, and dependence from the National Alcohol SurveyE Anne Lown
Alcohol Research Group, Emeryville, California 94608, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 35:317-25. 2011..This paper extends that work by providing a comprehensive description of past year and lifetime alcohol consumption patterns, consequences, and dependence among women reporting either physical and sexual abuse in a national sample... - Estimates of the mean alcohol concentration of the spirits, wine, and beer sold in the United States and per capita consumption: 1950 to 2002William C Kerr
Alcohol Research Group, Emeryville, California 94608, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 30:1583-91. 2006..Estimates of per capita consumption of alcohol in the United States require estimates of the mean alcohol content by volume (%ABV) of the beer, wine, and spirits sold to convert beverage volume to gallons of pure alcohol... - Age, period and cohort influences on beer, wine and spirits consumption trends in the US National Alcohol SurveysWilliam C Kerr
Alcohol Research Group, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA
Addiction 99:1111-20. 2004..To estimate the separate influences of age, period and cohort on the consumption of beer wine and spirits in the United States... - Factor analysis of the Alcohol and Drug Confrontation Scale (ADCS)Douglas L Polcin
Alcohol Research Group, Berkeley, CA 94608 1010, United States
Addict Behav 32:2274-80. 2007..80) and (2) External Intensity (alpha=0.63). The two factors accounted for 58% of the variance. The ADCS offers a fresh and broader view of confrontation that can be reliably measured... - Age-period-cohort influences on trends in past year marijuana use in the US from the 1984, 1990, 1995 and 2000 National Alcohol SurveysWilliam C Kerr
Alcohol Research Group, 2000 Hearst Ave, Suite 300, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 86:132-8. 2007..However, no studies have utilized data on current consumption in multiple cross-sectional surveys to estimate these factors... - Health effects from drinking: type, severity, and associated drinking patterns based on qualitative and quantitative questions in a methodological surveyE Anne Lown
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA
Subst Use Misuse 42:793-810. 2007..Study limitations are noted. Dependence symptoms should be assessed in screening for those most at risk for alcohol-related health harms... - Distribution of alcohol consumption and expenditures and the impact of improved measurement on coverage of alcohol sales in the 2000 National Alcohol SurveyWilliam C Kerr
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, Emeryville, Calilfornia 94608, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 31:1714-22. 2007..Using the new measures, we examined their distributions by estimating the proportion of mean intake, heavy drinking days, and alcohol expenditures among drinkers grouped by volume... - The alcohol content of wine consumed in the US and per capita consumption: new estimates reveal different trendsWilliam C Kerr
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, Berkeley, California 94709, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 30:516-22. 2006..To estimate the mean percentage alcohol content by volume (%ABV) for wine sold in the US and in each state for the years 1962 to 2002, and to apply these to per capita wine sales for the years 1970 to 2002... - Telephone versus in-person interviews for alcohol use: results of the 2000 National Alcohol SurveyLorraine T Midanik
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 72:209-14. 2003..In conjunction with other mode studies, these findings support the use of telephone interviewing in large national surveys to obtain alcohol use and alcohol-related harms data... - A drink is a drink? Variation in the amount of alcohol contained in beer, wine and spirits drinks in a US methodological sampleWilliam C Kerr
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 29:2015-21. 2005..Empirically based estimates of the mean alcohol content of beer, wine and spirits drinks from a national sample of US drinkers are not currently available... - How many drinks does it take you to feel drunk? Trends and predictors for subjective drunkennessWilliam C Kerr
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA
Addiction 101:1428-37. 2006..To describe and model the sources of the variation and trends in the meaning of subjective drunkenness... - Alcohol consumption patterns and risk factors among childhood cancer survivors compared to siblings and general population peersE Anne Lown
Alcohol Research Group, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA
Addiction 103:1139-48. 2008..This study describes alcohol consumption among adult survivors of pediatric cancer compared to sibling controls and a national sample of healthy peers. Risk factors for heavy drinking among survivors are described... - Tracking alcohol consumption over timeThomas K Greenfield
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, Berkeley, California, USA
Alcohol Res Health 27:30-8. 2003..If these requirements are met, the regular collection of data on aspects of alcohol consumption will greatly increase researchers' understanding of the forces influencing a population's alcohol consumption and its consequences... - Interactive voice response versus computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) surveys and sensitive questions: the 2005 National Alcohol SurveyLorraine T Midanik
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, Emeryville, California, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 69:580-8. 2008..The purpose of this study was to compare the prevalence rates obtained by IVR with computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) for alcohol-related problems, physical and sexual abuse, and sexual orientation... - Unequal treatment: racial and ethnic disparities in alcoholism treatment servicesLaura Schmidt
Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
Alcohol Res Health 29:49-54. 2006..Despite these disparities, treatment often appears to be as successful for minority patients as for Whites. More in-depth investigations are needed to understand why outcomes often are similar despite disparities in treatment... - Defining 'current drinkers' in national surveys: results of the 2000 National Alcohol SurveyLorraine T Midanik
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute and School of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeley, 94720 7400, USA
Addiction 98:517-22. 2003.... - Measuring confrontation during recovery from addictionDouglas L Polcin
Haight Ashbury Free Clinics Inc, Research, Education and Training, San Francisco, CA 94117, USA
Subst Use Misuse 41:369-92. 2006..Additional studies are necessary to establish validity, generalize results to more diverse populations, and assess confrontation at different time points during recovery... - Factors associated with probation officers' use of criminal justice coercion to mandate alcohol treatmentDouglas L Polcin
Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, Inc, San Francisco, California 94117, USA
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 29:647-70. 2003..Probation departments are encouraged to develop management styles that facilitate shared normative beliefs about assessing and managing alcohol problems among probationers... - Methodological articles in addiction journals: do we need more, less, or about the same amount?Lorraine T Midanik
Addiction 99:145-7. 2004 - A comparison of drinking patterns and alcohol-use-related problems in the United States and Germany, 1995Kim Bloomfield
Free University of Berlin, Germany
Subst Use Misuse 37:399-428. 2002..Sociodemographic correlates of heavier consumption also varied between countries. Results support the role of cultural traditions in the expression and recognition of alcohol-use-related problems... - The average ethanol content of beer in the U.S. and individual state: estimates for use in aggregate consumption statisticsWilliam C Kerr
J Stud Alcohol 64:439-40. 2003 - A comparative multi-level analysis of contextual drinking in American and Canadian adultsSylvia Kairouz
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Universite de Montreal, Montreal Quebec, Canada
Addiction 102:71-80. 2007..To investigate the effects of demographic factors and drinking location on contextual drinking in a comparison of US and Canadian adults...
Research Grants
- Drinking Patterns & Ethnicity: Impact on Mortality RisksThomas Greenfield; Fiscal Year: 2007..Results will inform public health strategies, alcohol policy development, and help disentangle pattern effects on mortality. ..
- Population Drinking Patterns & HIV Risk in Goa, IndiaThomas Greenfield; Fiscal Year: 2006..Risk analyses will inform the epidemiology of HIV risk behaviors in India and provide a rich source of information for planning preventive interventions in a resource-poor society. ..
- Improving Alcohol Consumption Self-Report MeasurementThomas Greenfield; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- Malt Liquor/Fortified Wine Use and Ethnicity in the U.S.Thomas Greenfield; Fiscal Year: 2003..Last, we will explore spacial relationships between heavy use and alcohol-related victimization in communities as well as existing alcohol policies. Results inform culturally appropriate health messages and policy development. ..
- Drinking Patterns & Ethnicity: Impact on Mortality RisksThomas Greenfield; Fiscal Year: 2009..Results will inform public health strategies, alcohol policy development, and help disentangle pattern effects on mortality. ..