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Internet-Based Intervention for Alcohol Abusers

The internet-based Check Your Drinking (CYD) screener appears to be effective in reducing alcohol consumption among problem drinkers.

Alcohol Education: Effective and Ineffective Programs in Alcohol Abuse Prevention

Alcohol education resources are listed by harm reduction, social norms marketing, brief interventions, DARE, “Just Say No,” zero tolerance, and controversies. They include a broad range of activities, policies and practices to promote abstinence, to delay the onset of drinking among young people, or to promote moderation among those who choose to drink alcoholic beverages.

Drinking Alcohol and Subjective Well-Being among College Students

Higher alcohol consumption (greater quantity and frequency, more intoxication, more heavy episodic drinking “binge drinking”) is associated with higher subjective well-being (greater life satisfaction, higher positive affect, lower negative affect) among college and university students.

Scare Tactics Not Effective in Reducing Alcohol-Related Problems

Study seeks to understand why scare tactics commonly used in alcohol education tend to be ineffective. An alternative to scaring students is the social norms marketing approach.

Positive Blood Alcohol Level (BAL) Protective against Trauma Patient Mortality

Positive blood alcohol level (BAL) or blood alcohol concentration (BAC) was associated with lower mortality risk in trauma patients at a Level 1 trauma center.

Alcohol Use by Underaged Youths Drops

Current alcohol drinking or consumption by underaged youths dropped between 2007 and 2008, continuing a trend reports the U.S. government’s annual National Survey on Drug Use and Health.

BIOGRAPHY

Ernest H. Cherrington - Ernest Cherrington (Ernest H. Cherrington) worked with Anti-Saloon League and the World League Against Alcoholism. He emphasized education against alcohol consumption to bring about voluntary compliance rather than the use of coercive legal force.

Mary Hunt (Mary Hanchet Hunt or Mary H. Hunt) - Mary Hunt (a.k.a. Mary Hanchet Hunt, Mary H. Hunt and Mary H. H. Hunt) was the most powerful woman in the US promoting prohibition of alcohol. Through her position as head of the Woman’s Christian Union’s Department of Scientific Temperance Instruction in Schools and Colleges, she dictated the content of temperance education throughout the United States.

William E. Johnson (Pussyfoot Johnson) - William E Johnson (Pussyfoot Johnson) of the Anti-Saloon League used tricks and deception, about which he bragged, to promote Prohibition.

William H. Anderson (William Hamilton Anderson) - William H. Anderson was one of the most successful prohibition lobbyists of the Anti-Saloon League of America. Read about his political tactics, anti-Catholicism, anti-Germanism, anti-Semitism, anti-foreignism and the forgery conviction of the “dry warrior.”

Wayne Wheeler - Wayne Wheeler of the Anti-Saloon League of America developed pressure politics or ‘Wheelerism” and was a leader of the temperance movement that led to National Prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States.

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