INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
OF ADOLESCENT MEDICINE AND HEALTH
Volume 18,
No. 1, January - March 2006
TABLE OF CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
Alcohol and suicidal behavior in
adolescents: A medical and social problem
Leo Sher, Isack Kandel
and Joav Merrick ................ 1
REVIEW ARTICLES
Functional magnetic resonance imaging in
studies of neurocognitive effects of alcohol use on
adolescents and young adults
Leo Sher
................. 3
Psychotherapy in the treatment of
alcohol and substance abusing adolescents with suicidal behavior
Alexis H Conason, Maria A Oquendo and Leo Sher .................... 9
Impulsive-aggressive traits and suicidal
behavior in adolescents and young adults with alcoholism
Juan J Carballo, Maria A Oquendo, Lucas Giner, Gil Zalsman, Ansley M Roche and Leo Sher
........................ 15
The constitutionality of random drug and
alcohol testing of students in secondary schools
Irene Estrin and Leo Sher .................... 21
Stigma and alcohol misuse during
adolescence
Ron B Aviram ...................... 27
Alcohol use in adolescents with eating
disorders
Alexis H Conason and Leo Sher
..................... 31
Pathways for practice and policy to
reduce adolescent alcohol abuse: interpretations from a qualitative study
Lester M
Coleman and Suzanne Cater ........................ 37
Family-based treatment development for
adolescent alcohol abuse
Cynthia L
Rowe and Howard A Liddle ................. 43
Motivational interviewing with
adolescents and young adults for drug-related problems
Jerry L Grenard, Susan L Ames, Mary Ann Pentz
and Steve Sussman ............... 53
Alcohol use and abuse amongst
adolescents in Hong Kong
Vivian WQ Lou and Daniel TL Shek .................... 69
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
The relationship between the frequency
of alcohol use and suicide rates in young people
Leo Sher ...................... 81
Demographic and clinical features of
adolescents and young adults with alcohol-related disorders admitted to the
Psychiatric Emergency Room
Juan J Carballo, Maria A Oquendo, Maria
Garcia-Moreno, Belen Poza, Lucas Giner,
Enrique Baca, Gil Zalsman, Ansley
M Roche and Leo Sher ..................... 87
Social competence among urban minority
youth entering middle school: Relationships with alcohol use and antisocial
behaviors
Kenneth W
Griffin, Tracy R Nichols, Amanda S Birnbaum and
Gilbert J Botvin ............. 97
Television and music video exposure and
adolescent ‘alcopop’ use
Jan Van
den Bulck, Kathleen Beullens
and Joost Mulder
............... 107
Utility of the AUDIT for screening
adolescents for problematic alcohol use in the emergency department
Anne M Fairlie, Holly A Sindelar, Cheryl
A Eaton and Anthony Spirito ............... 115
Entertainment and music magazine reading
and binge drinking among a group of juvenile offenders
Steven R
Thomsen and Dag Rekve .................... 123
Modified dexamethasone
suppression–corticotropin-releasing hormone
stimulation test: A pilot study of young healthy volunteers and implications
for alcoholism research in adolescents and young adults
Leo Sher, Thomas B Cooper, J John Mann and Maria A Oquendo ................ 133
Effects of naltrexone
on the acquisition of alcohol intake in male and female periadolescent
and adult alcohol-preferring (P) rats
Helen JK Sable, Richard L Bell, Zachary A Rodd
and William J McBride .............. 139
Cardiovascular risk factors in
adolescents with alcohol use disorders
Dawn L
Thatcher and Duncan B Clark .................... 151
Heavy drinking and patterns of
sociability at the end of adolescence: a French survey
Patrick Peretti-Watel, François Beck and Stéphane
Legleye
....................... 159
Transition to College: A Classification
and Regression Tree (CART) analysis of natural reduction of binge drinking
Peter W Vik, Tony Cellucci, Jill Hedt and Melinda Jorgensen .................... 171
Alcohol use frequency as a screen for
alcohol use disorders in adolescents
Duncan B
Clark, Tammy Chung and Christopher Martin ...................... 181
Impulsivity, suicidality
and alcohol use disorders in adolescents and young adults with borderline
personality disorder
Scott T
Wilson, Eric A Fertuck, Abbie
Kwitel, Melissa C Stanley and Barbara Stanley ......
189
Prevalence of alcohol misuse among
adolescents and young adults evaluated in a primary care setting
Juan J Carballo, Maria A Oquendo, Lucas Giner, Pedro Garcia-Parajua,
Jorge J Iglesias, Pablo H Goldberg, Gil Zalsman, Sadia R Chaudhury and Leo Sher ..... 197
CASE REPORTS
Insecure attachment and college-age
alcohol use disorders. A case report
Kimberly M
Kotov ................ 203
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ISSN 0334-0139/18:1
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