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| Helen MatzgerSummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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Does marital status predict long-term drinking? Five-year observations of dependent and problem drinkersHelen Matzger
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
J Stud Alcohol 65:255-65. 2004..This longitudinal analysis examines marital status with other individual predisposing, problem severity and social predisposing characteristics to understand its strength in predicting alcohol consumption over 5 years...- Dependent and problem drinking over 5 years: a latent class growth analysisKevin L Delucchi
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143 0984, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 74:235-44. 2004..Findings also support the usefulness of a semi-parametric latent group-based approach as a tool for analyzing alcohol-related behaviors... - Reasons for drinking less and their relationship to sustained remission from problem drinkingHelen Matzger
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94709, USA
Addiction 100:1637-46. 2005..To compare representative general population and treated samples on their reasons for drinking less and whether particular reasons were related to sustained remission from problem drinking for either group... - Alcohol in emerging adulthood: 7-year study of problem and dependent drinkersKevin L Delucchi
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Box 0984 TRC, 401 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94143 0984, United States
Addict Behav 33:134-42. 2008..This study examined the level, changes and predictors of alcohol consumption and binge drinking over a 7-year period among young adults (18-25 years) who met the criteria for problem drinking... - Nonmedical use of prescription drugs among a longitudinal sample of dependent and problem drinkersHelen Matzger
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States
Drug Alcohol Depend 86:222-9. 2007.... - How important is treatment? One-year outcomes of treated and untreated alcohol-dependent individualsConstance Weisner
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Addiction 98:901-11. 2003..To compare representative treatment and untreated samples of alcohol-dependent individuals in rates of abstinence and non-problematic use at 1-year follow-up... - Who goes to alcohol and drug treatment? Understanding utilization within the context of insuranceConstance Weisner
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
J Stud Alcohol 63:673-82. 2002..This study assesses the differential roles of demographic characteristics, problem severity, motivational factors and insurance in entrance into alcohol and drug treatment... - A prospective study of the factors influencing entry to alcohol and drug treatmentConstance Weisner
Division of Research, Northern California Kaiser Permanente, 3505 Broadway Avenue, 12th Floor, Oakland, CA 94611, USA
J Behav Health Serv Res 29:126-37. 2002..The findings have implications for interventions by health professionals, both for the development of early interventions targeting individuals to treatment and for a continuing care service model... - The role of community services and informal support on five-year drinking trajectories of alcohol dependent and problem drinkersConstance Weisner
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, 401 Parnassus Avenue, Box F 0984, San Francisco, California 94143 0984, USA
J Stud Alcohol 64:862-73. 2003..The purpose of this study was to examine how informal support and community services impact the course of alcohol disorders by examining the trajectories of alcohol consumption over 5 years in dependent and problem drinkers... - Missed opportunities in addressing drinking behavior in medical and mental health servicesConstance Weisner
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 27:1132-41. 2003..However, little is known about which problem drinkers seek help from those services or about the characteristics of those who have their drinking addressed... - Course of recovery from alcoholismKamilla L Venner
University of New Mexico Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Addictions, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 30:1079-90. 2006..of Community Services and Informal Support on 7-Year Drinking Outcomes in Treated and Untreated Drinkers, by Helen Matzger; (2) The Sequence of Recovery Events in a Native American Sample, by Kamilla L... - Addiction treatment history, medical services utilization, and cost: a longitudinal analysis of problem drinkersPierre Kébreau Alexandre
Department of Mental Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, John Hopkins University, 624 N Broadway, Suite 833, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Addict Dis 25:105-20. 2006..Researchers, policy makers, and clinicians could benefit from such information to develop alternative delivery models, formulate research initiatives, and determine areas for potential intervention and improvement... - Gender differences in the relationship of community services and informal support to seven-year drinking trajectories of alcohol-dependent and problem drinkersLyndsay Ammon
Alcohol Research Group, 6475 Christie Avenue, Suite 400, Emeryville, California 94608, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 69:140-50. 2008..The purpose of this study was to examine how community service contacts and informal support are related to the course of drinking for dependent and problem-drinking persons in a population-based sample of women versus men over 7 years...