AbstractObjective: To examine characteristics of alcohol mixed with energy drink (AmED) use in a sample of college students. Participants: College students (N =614, 53% female) in their second year of college participated during the fall of 2008. Method: Students completed a cross-sectional survey with questions regarding AmED use. Results: AmED use in the last 30… Continue reading Who Uses Alcohol Mixed With Energy Drinks? Characteristics of College Student Users

AbstractBackground Studies looking at the association between perceived risk and simultaneous use of alcohol and marijuana are scarce. The present study has three purposes: (1) to examine the association between alcohol and marijuana use at the daily level; (2) to document how this association varies by the perceived risk of using alcohol and marijuana simultaneously;… Continue reading The effect of perceived risk on the combined used of alcohol and marijuana: Results from daily surveys

Aims This study examined the extent to which the trajectory of participation in sports, athletics or exercising (PSAE) covaried with substance use in early adulthood controlling for team sports participation using parallel process latent growth curve modeling. Design, setting and participants Analysis of data collected from a series of panel studies using a cohort-sequential design.… Continue reading Substance use and exercise participation among young adults: parallel trajectories in a national cohort-sequential study

OBJECTIVE: Using data from the National Child Development Study, an ongoing longitudinal birth cohort study of British youth born in 1958 (N = 9,107), we investigated the long-term impact of heavy alcohol use at age 16 years on educational qualifications in adulthood. METHOD: We used a propensity score matching approach to examine whether and for… Continue reading Teenage Alcohol Use and Educational Attainment

A foundational assumption in the fields of addiction and developmental psychopathology is that child and adolescent experiences set the stage for adult functioning and adjustment. However, the empirical literature documenting life-span linkages with adult alcohol (and other drug) use and abuse is sparse. This gap is due to a slow adoption of life-span developmental conceptualizations… Continue reading Destiny matters: distal developmental influences on adult alcohol use and abuse

Aims: Alcohol expectancies are strong concurrent predictors of alcohol use and problems, but the current study addressed their unique power to predict from adolescence to midlife. Method: Long-term longitudinal data from the national British Cohort Study 1970 (N = 2146, 59.8% female) were used to predict alcohol use and misuse in the mid-30s by alcohol… Continue reading The Long Arm of Expectancies: Adolescent Alcohol Expectancies Predict Adult Alcohol Use

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of two incentive conditions (a $10 pre-incentive only vs. a $2 pre-incentive and a $10 promised incentive) on response rates, sample composition, substantive data, and cost-efficiency in a survey of college student substance use and related behaviors. Participants were 3000 randomly-selected college students invited to… Continue reading Incentives for college student participation in web-based substance use surveys