Alcohol Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Alcohol, including details on use, abuse, treatment, health, rehab.

Volume 2 (2005), Issue 3 (March)

1. Elevated levels of endocannabinoids and CB1 receptor-mediated G-protein signaling in the prefrontal cortex of alcoholic suicide victims.
   Biol Psychiatry, 57(5): 480-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. GEE estimation of a misspecified time-varying covariate: an example with the effect of alcoholism treatment on medical utilization.
   Stat Med, 24(6): 925-39. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Naltrexone treatment of combined alcohol and opioid dependence: deterioration of co-morbid major depression.
   Pharmacopsychiatry, 38(2): 100-2. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Increased serum nitrite/nitrate (NOx) and malondialdehyde (MDA) levels during alcohol withdrawal in alcoholic patients.
   Pharmacopsychiatry, 38(2): 95-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Deficit in beta-endorphin peptide and tendency to alcohol abuse.
   Peptides, 26(4): 701-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Conceptual framework for the etiology of alcoholism: a "kindling"/stress hypothesis.
   Psychopharmacology (Berl), 178(4): 367-80. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Long-term follow-up of patients with alcoholic liver disease after liver transplantation in Sweden: impact of structured management on recidivism.
   Scand J Gastroenterol, 40(2): 206-16. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. The 'co-morbidity roundabout': a framework to guide assessment and intervention strategies and engineer change among people with co-morbid problems.
   Drug Alcohol Rev, 23(4): 407-23. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. General practitioners' role in preventive medicine: scenario analysis using alcohol as a case study.
   Drug Alcohol Rev, 23(4): 399-404. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Emerging patterns of cannabis and other substance use in Aboriginal communities in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory: a study of two communities.
    Drug Alcohol Rev, 23(4): 381-90. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Metabolism of alcohol.
    Clin Liver Dis, 9(1): 1-35. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Risk modifying effect of social capital on measures of heavy alcohol consumption, alcohol abuse, harms, and secondhand effects: national survey findings.
    J Epidemiol Community Health, 59(4): 303-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Chronic active heavy drinking and family history of problem drinking modulate regional brain tissue volumes.
    Psychiatry Res, 138(2): 115-30. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Increased frequency of sister chromatid exchanges in peripheral lymphocytes of alcoholics and cigarette smokers.
    Cell Biol Int, 29(2): 165-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Pharmacological and anatomical evidence for an interaction between mGluR5- and GABA(A) alpha1-containing receptors in the discriminative stimulus effects of ethanol.
    Neuropsychopharmacology, 30(4): 747-57. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Ethanol physical dependence is accompanied by up-regulated expression of L-type high voltage-gated calcium channel alpha1 subunits in mouse brain.
    Brain Res, 1039(1): 211-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Prevalence and distinct correlates of anxiety, substance, and combined comorbidity in a multi-site public sector sample with bipolar disorder.
    J Affect Disord, 85(3): 301-15. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Joint analysis of the NACP-REP1 marker within the alpha synuclein gene concludes association with alcohol dependence.
    Hum Mol Genet, 14(7): 967-71. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Association between early onset of cigarette, alcohol and cannabis use and later drug use patterns: an analysis of a survey in European metropolises.
    Eur Addict Res, 11(2): 92-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Pharmacological relapse prevention of alcoholism: clinical predictors of outcome.
    Eur Addict Res, 11(2): 83-91. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. South Africa: alcohol today.
    Addiction, 100(4): 426-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. The Washington University Twin Study of alcoholism.
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet, 134(1): 48-55. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Decision making in pathological gambling: a comparison between pathological gamblers, alcohol dependents, persons with Tourette syndrome, and normal controls.
    Brain Res Cogn Brain Res, 23(1): 137-51. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. How many cravings? Pharmacological aspects of craving treatment in alcohol addiction: a review.
    Neuropsychobiology, 51(2): 59-66. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Predictors of alcohol and crack cocaine use outcomes over a 3-year follow-up in treatment seekers.
    J Subst Abuse Treat, 28: S73-82. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Less directiveness by therapists improves drinking outcomes of reactant clients in alcoholism treatment.
    J Consult Clin Psychol, 73(2): 262-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Coping skills training and 12-step facilitation for women whose partner has alcoholism: effects on depression, the partner's drinking, and partner physical violence.
    J Consult Clin Psychol, 73(2): 249-61. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. The occurrence of male-to-female intimate partner violence on days of men's drinking: the moderating effects of antisocial personality disorder.
    J Consult Clin Psychol, 73(2): 239-48. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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