Suzanne Colby

..Motivational interviewing (MI) is widely used for adolescent smoking cessation but empirical support for this approach is mixed...

..This paper presents descriptive and test-retest reliability data on smoking history variables assessed using the Lifetime Interview on Smoking Trajectories (LIST)...

..The study objectives were to examine smoking abstinence and reinstatement effects on subjective experience and cognitive performance among adolescent smokers...

..Results indicate that brief tobacco deprivation does not result in compensatory increases in alcohol consumption among young moderate to heavy drinkers...

..In this section, the need for identification and inclusion of a standard set of optimal dependence measures, for enhancement of current measures, and for the onset of a new and comprehensive measures development program is outlined...

..They imagined post-college drinking to be a threat to career and family and therefore irresponsible. Implications for intervention development and future research are described...

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..Recommendations for enhancing methodology and advancing our understanding of adolescent nicotine dependence and withdrawal are offered...

..Findings offer some support for MI for smoking reduction among non-treatment-seeking adolescents, but overall changes in smoking were small...

..To evaluate moderators and mediators of brief alcohol interventions conducted in the emergency department...

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..To establish the efficacy of a brief motivational intervention compared to feedback only when delivered in an emergency department for reducing alcohol use and problems among young adults...

..Peers and participants endorsed high satisfaction ratings on the PMI. Findings indicate the promise of including peers in brief motivational interventions for mandated students...

..Promoting specific behaviors in the context of in-person brief interventions may be a promising approach to reducing drinking volume among identified at-risk students...

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..Prior clinical experience and addiction training predicted AUD identification. Patient race and gender influenced clinical judgment ratings. Addictions training is needed to improve identification rates. Study limitations are noted...

..As with adults, evidence indicated that lapses were associated with craving, negative affect, and smoking cues. These data support the feasibility and potential value of using EMA with adolescent smokers...

..Further research is required to identify procedures for increasing participation in alcohol-free activities and to determine whether increased alcohol-free activity participation results in decreased alcohol consumption...

..The aim of this study was to establish profiles of mandated students from a combined data set using exploratory and replication cluster analysis...

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..Aggregated data would be unable to detect this time trend. This research underscores the potential value added by examining the day-to-day timing of effects following treatments for alcohol use...

..Implications of findings for prevention work suggest the importance of targeting social situations in which smoking and drinking co-occur...

..Research should, however, consider SOs' influence on participant outcomes and the relevance of specific SO characteristics...

..Further research is needed on possible effects with smokers motivated to quit smoking and on other methods of promoting smoking cessation among alcoholics...

..Smoking abstinence did not moderate hostility effects. Cigarette smoking may prevent continuing increases in negative mood after social stress in HH smokers, which may partially explain their low rates of quitting...

..Likewise, prior studies have not addressed whether personality shows differential associations with smoking based on the presence or absence of lifetime psychiatric disorders...

..The efficacy of contingency-management (CM) and motivational enhancement therapy (MET) for college student smoking cessation was examined...

..Finally, we examined concurrent validity of the ND continuum and levels of current of smoking at each wave of assessment...

..In addition, researchers may find a quick visual analog measure of motivation to change marijuana use with good psychometric properties useful...

..Patients treated in an urban emergency department were studied to determine if college status, gender and having alcohol as a reason for medical treatment were related to alcohol use and related problem behaviors...

..Results point to the need for further research regarding adolescents and response distortion...

..Future research examining relationships between criminal behavior, substance use, and cultural variations in use patterns and delinquency will allow more relevant intervention and prevention strategies in this population...

..Treatment implications were discussed. This brief scale is likely to be useful in a variety of research and clinical settings...

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..Effects of MET were hypothesized to be greater with CST and for less motivated patients...

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..We conclude that brief interventions are recommended for adolescents who present to an ED with an alcohol-related event and report preexisting problematic alcohol use...

..Barbara McCrady, PhD, a noted expert on the treatment of couples for substance abuse problems, served as discussant...

..Implications of these findings for the assessment of adolescent smoking are discussed...

..This study has implications for brief interventions that capitalize on potential teachable moments with problem-drinking adolescents...

..Male and female participants who reduced their drinking showed increased proportional reinforcement from substance-free activities...

..However, scale scores on smoking to cope with recovery did not significantly predict 3-month relapse to substance use. Implications for theory and clinical interventions with substance abusers who smoke were discussed...

..Nancy Barnett presented data on characteristics related to readiness to change alcohol use in a sample of young adults who were treated in an ED for injury or intoxication...

..S. Radloff, 1977). The findings suggest that alcoholic smokers with low depressive symptoms are more receptive to quitting smoking after sustained alcohol abstinence...

..We will address the natural history of adolescent smoking cessation, treatment outcomes, validity of self-reports and biochemical validation, and research recommendations...

..The findings indicated that drinking behavior partially mediated the association between positive evaluations and problems experienced from drinking but did not mediate the association between evaluations and drunk driving...

..Future studies should more closely investigate whether the three underlying dimensions of the SASSI-A are useful in treatment planning. Results are presented in light of the relatively new SASSI-A2...

..Additionally, the utility of factor-specific cut scores in identifying patients with DSM-IV alcohol diagnoses was investigated...

..This study was undertaken to evaluate the association between cigarette smoking behavior and DSM-IV nicotine dependence...

..Similar patterns were found for marijuana-related risky driving, but effects were non-significant...

..Parent reports generally underestimated the adolescent's substance use. Questions on level of substance use generally provide an efficient method of screening adolescents for substance-related problems in an ED setting...

..Finally, new directions for future evaluative studies of transdisciplinary scientific collaboration, both within and beyond the field of tobacco science, are described...

..To provide recommendations that will build a better foundation for research on youth smoking cessation...

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..The proposed research would test the effects of BMI specifically in the under-studied and under-treated population of heavy drinking non-college young adults. ..

..Study findings will advance our understanding of reinforcement mechanisms underlying adolescent smoking, which could also have implications for understanding and treating adolescent drug use more generally. ..

..Thus, it will provide a greater understanding of nicotine withdrawal as a maintaining factor of adolescent smoking, and thereby provide an empirical basis for enhancing smoking cessation approaches for youth. ..

..The proposed research would test the effects of BMI specifically in the under-studied and under-treated population of heavy drinking non-college young adults. ..