Contends that work obsession and alcoholism can and do become steady partners for academics with high achievement need. Suggests that some technological changes may contribute to the resolution of the alcohol-impaired professoriate problem. Examines alcohol abuse, employee assistance programs, and stages of adulthood. (NB)

Administered problem-solving appraisal inventories to Veterans Administration inpatient recovering male alcoholics (N=45) to generalize problem-solving appraisal research beyond normal population to clinical population. Results suggest that problem-solving appraisal of inpatient male alcoholics is more similar to late adolescents than to adults.…

Alcohol use and membership in the academic community traditionally have been linked to the dual notions of privilege and freedom. Four basic habits that colleges need to adopt are identified: avoid hypocrisy, resist denial, keep authority flexible, and re-think privilege. (MLW)

This article reports on an evaluation study conducted in an attempt to verify independently the effects on alcohol-related behavior ascribed by Denison et al. to university level alcohol education based on Activated Health Education principles. Subjects for the study were 80 undergraduate students. (IAH)

Three-day life skills re-education program, embedded in 10-week new employee basic training had no long-term effects on alcohol and drug knowledge and attitudes. Findings suggest that primary prevention program targeting adults may be too late to affect alcohol and drug habits, life skills approach may work best in secondary prevention efforts,…

Heavy-drinking college students tend to overestimate the prevalence of heavy drinking among their peers. Twenty-six heavy-drinking students participated in a survey study of drinking. They were randomized to receive or not receive, by return mail, personal feedback of their drinking compared to population norms. Feedback subjects showed greater…

Provides an initial review of social scientific research on the causes and effects of alcohol use and abuse. A framework is provided for exploring some of fundamental and everyday sociolinguistic and communicative dimensions of drinking, with attention to their implications for drinking and driving practice and anti-drunk-driving campaigns. (118…

Examined alcohol use among 7,799 adolescents. Found alcohol use highly correlated with composite effects of variables (behavioral intention; attitude toward school; school misconduct; time spent on sports, extracurricular activities, religion, and academics; grade average; gender; and grade level). Alcohol use was positively correlated with…

Surveyed 1,147 Louisiana State University students to assess current alcohol and drug use behavior and related attitudes. Results revealed that 37% of respondents reported drinking once or twice a week; 4% drank daily. Beer was the beverage of choice and marijuana was the drug of choice, followed by cocaine. Only 11% reported smoking cigarettes on…

Examined relationship between alcohol use and career decision-making readiness among tenth and twelfth grade students (n=222). Found students equally prepared to make career decisions; found no gender differences in career decidedness in either grade. Students who were heavy users of alcohol scored higher on career decision-making readiness than…

Examined frequency and prevalence of drug and alcohol use among 850 university employees. Explored alcohol and drug use within past year and month among university faculty, administrators, clerical staff, and physical plant/custodial staff. Found stress weakly correlated with some drug use in past month; depression consistently correlated with…

Use of drugs and alcohol on the job is more common among men than women and among blue-collar than white-collar workers according to data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1984. (JOW)

Examined possibility that high rates of psychological distress, alcohol abuse, and mortality among divorced men reflects strains associated with being divorced fathers. Findings from 155 divorced fathers and 812 married fathers revealed that divorced fathers reported higher levels of parental role strain than did married fathers. (Author/NB)

Examined use and abuse of alcohol and other drugs in university psychiatric health service and patterns of comorbidity with other psychiatric problems. Psychiatric service students (n=110) tended to drink less than did undergraduate comparison group and to report similar frequencies of adverse consequences. Alcohol disorders were significantly…

Presents a cultural framework for viewing alcohol/drug abuse to promote increased awareness among social-work students. The framework helps teachers illustrate the powerful role of culture in shaping behaviors in several cultural/ethnic groups simultaneously, and can be used to discuss cases and clinical problems in the classroom, compare cultures…