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Measuring Alcohol Consumption - Psychosocial and Biochemical Methods (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992)
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Measuring Alcohol Consumption - Psychosocial and Biochemical Methods (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992)
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The Importance of Measuring Alcohol Consumption To date, alcohol
studies have attended far more to issues of alco hol dependence and
the harmful consequences of drinking than to the level of alcohol
consumption itself. This is, perhaps, not surprising since
dependence on alcohol is believed to constitute a meaningful and
distinct medical syndrome, regardless of the level of alcohol
consumption associated with it (Edwards and Gross, 1976). Also, of
society is generally more concerned with the adverse consequences
drinking (e. g., traffic fatalities, homelessness, health care and
legal expenses, and academiclbehavioral problems in young
drinkers), than with the quantity of alcohol actually consumed.
Nevertheless, accurate assessment of alcohol usage is important in
its own right in at least four contexts: 1. Evaluating the
effectiveness of alcoholism and alcohol abuse treatment and
prevention efforts. Such efforts include both applied evaluations
of existing programs and formal, well-controlled efficacy studies
on experimental interventions. These investigations require
rigorous methodologies to assess outcomes precisely and contrast
what may be quite subtle differences between programs and between
pre treatment and posttreatment outcomes. Although these studies
are usually characterized by the employment of multiple measures of
success-including general improvements in social and physical
functioning, reduction in degree of dependence, and resolution of
problems directly resultant from drinking-it is by their assessment
of changes in drinking behavior that they are potentially able to
achieve the highest level of objectivity and exactitude."
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