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Programme & Participants of 1997 Annual KBS Meeting:
23rd Annual Alcohol Epidemiology Symposium of the Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol, Reykjavik, Iceland, June 2-6, 1997
Programme:
Pre-meeting sessions
FRIDAY MAY 30, 1997
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Bio-Med
Organizer: Kim Bloomfield (Germany)
SATURDAY MAY 31, 1997
9:00 - 17:00
International Research Group on Gender and Alcohol (IRGGA) and Bio-Med.
Organizers: Sharon C. Wilsnack (USA) and Kim Bloonfield (Germany)
SUNDAY JUNE 1, 1997
10:00 - 13:30
International Research Group on Gender and Alcohol (IRGGA).
Organizer: Sharon C. Wilsnack (USA)
13:30 - 16:30
Didactic Seminar: Alcohol Consumption - Problem Risk Functions.
Organizer: Thomas Greenfield (USA)
Main symposium
MONDAY JUNE 2, 1997
9:00 - 9:30
OPENING SESSION
Marja Holmila, President of Kettil Bruun Society
Hildigunnur Ólafsdóttir, Local Organizing Committee
9:30 - 10:30
PLENARY
Chair: Henk Garretsen
Introductory remarks on lifetime drinking and health.
Professor Dr. Tómas Helgason, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital (Iceland)
Lifetime drinking histories in a sample of 45 - 70 years old Dutch men and women.
Paul Lemmens (Netherlands)
Lifetime drinking and the cost of health harms: How problem severity informs the prevention paradox.
Thomas K. Greenfield and John D. Rogers (USA)
Discussant: Ingeborg Rossow (Norway)
11:00 - 12:30
SESSION A
Chair: Jillian Fleming
Need for interpersonal resources among alcohol misusers: Gender differences.
Meir Tiechman, Giora Rahav, Tammy Keidar and Yona Teichman (Israel)
A multi-level analysis of family and individual effects on individual drinking behaviours.
Andrée Demers (Canada)
Discussant: Marja Holmila (Finland)
Family environments and substance use.
Gordon E. Barnes, David Patton and Sheila K. Marshall (Canada)
Intimate relationships and alcohol use: When love comes to town.
Rutger Engels and Ronald Knibbe (Netherlands)
Discussant: Moira Plant (UK)
SESSION B
Chair: Martin Plant
Gendered patterns of adolescents’ alcohol and drug use in Estonia.
Anu Narusk (Estonia)
Alcohol and drug use by secondary school students in Moscow, Russia.
Tatiana Grechanaia and Olga Romanova (Russia)
Discussant: Fe Caces (USA)
Portraits of young intoxicant users in Finland: Are they a homogeneous group?
Salme Ahlström, Leena Metso, Kari Haavisto and Eeva Liisa Tuovinen (Finland)
Truancy, perceived school performance, family structure, lifestyle, alcohol, cigarettes and illicit drugs: a study of UK teenagers.
Patrick Miller (UK)
Discussant: Joel W. Grube (USA)
SESSION C
Chair: Anja Koski-Jännes
Alcoholics Anonymous in Finland.
Klaus Mäkelä (Finland)
Education programme for concerned significant others of alcohol abusers.
Helen Hansagi (Sweden)
Discussant: Allaman Allamani (Italy)
Divine influences on drinking habits in Iceland.
Óttar Guðmundsson (Iceland)
Drinking behaviour and alienation.
Ladislav Csemy (Czech Republic)
Discussant: Hermann Fahrengrug (Switzerland)
12:30 - 14:00
An informal luncheon meeting at the Nordic House. Unrecorded alcohol consumption: patterns, trends and implications.
Organizer: Norman Giesbrecht
14:00 - 15:30
SESSION A
Chair: Shoshana Weiss
Characteristics of moderate vs. former and never alcohol users.
Jamie M. D. Wiebe, Robert P. Murray and Gordon E. Barnes (Canada)
Alcohol abuse and suicidal behaviour.
Ingeborg Rossow (Norway), Anders Romelsjö (Sweden) and Håkan Leifman (Sweden)
Discussant: Paul Lemmens (Netherlands)
Drinking as a risk factor for sustained smoking: An indirect social cost of alcohol.
Deborah A. Dawson (USA)
Discussant: Henk Garretsen (Netherlands)
SESSION B
Chair: Giora Rahav
Constructing problem drinking: An analysis of definitions and solutions according to alcohol problem specialists in Yukon.
Florence Kellner (Canada)
Rhetoric of drug issue in Finnish newspapers - Constructing drug problem.
Saija Järvnen (Finland)
Discussant: Amedeo Cottino (Italy)
"Alcopops": New threat or moral panic?
Martin Plant and Moira Plant (UK)
Creating drug problems in schools.
Jaana Jaatinen and Saija Järvinen (Finland)
Discussant: Elisabetta Forni (Italy)
SESSION C
Chair: Meir Teichman
Excessive alcohol consumption and hepatitis among clients entering methadone maintenance in Rotterdam.
J. Toet and J.A.M. van Oers (Netherlands)
Alcohol, social contexts and sexually transmitted disease.
Karen Trocki (USA)
Discussant: Astrid Skretting (Norway)
Self-reported alcohol use and other risky behaviours among adolescents in the U.S.: comparison of school-based and household-based responses.
Fe Caces, Gerald Williams, Darryl Bertolucci and Thomas Harford (USA)
Experiences related to drinking and age, Moscow, 1994.
Heli Mustonen (Finland)
Discussant: Tatiana Grechanaia (Russia)
16:00 - 16:45
SESSION A
Chair: Sarah Madden
Alternative indicators of alcohol-involved injuries: measurement of community prevention effectiveness.
Harold D. Holder and Andrew Treno (USA)
Evaluation of the public health and safety impact of extended trading permits for Perth hotels.
Tanya Chikritzhs, Tim Stockwell and Lisa Masters (Australia)
Discussant: Norman Giesbrecht (Canada)
SESSION B
Chair: Ladislav Csémy
Childhood sexual abuse and alcohol dependence and abuse. Findings from a Swedish female, general population study.
Lena Spak (Sweden)
The relationship between childhood sexual abuse and alcohol abuse in women. A case-control study.
Jilian Fleming, Paul E. Mullen, Beverly Sibthorpe, Robyn Attewell and Gabriele Bammer (Australia)
Discussant: Karen Trocki (USA)
SESSION C
Chair: Arlinda F. Kristjanson
Male drinking in transition from a socialist to a free-market economy: A multi-study comparison.
Alan Bostrom (USA), Kaye M. Fillmore (USA) and Ludek Kubicka (Czech Republic)
Causes of social class differences in alcoholism among young men.
Tomas Hemmingsson, Ingvar Lundberg, Finn Diderichsen and Peter Allebeck (Sweden)
Discussant: Ien van de Goor (Netherlands)
TUESDAY JUNE 3, 1997
9:00 - 10:30
PLENARY
Chair: Ása Guðmundsdóttir
Discussion Session: Alcohol and gender: Lessons from recent research. Discussion introduced by:
Sharon Wilsnack (USA), Moira Plant (UK), Richard Wilsnack (USA) and Irmgard Eisenbach-Stangl (Austria)
11:00 - 12 :30
SESSION A
Chair: Hans van Oers
The experience of alcohol-related problems in relation to onset of regular alcohol use in the German general population.
Ludwig Kraus and Kim Bloomfield (Germany)
Abstention and heavy drinking in relation to average alcohol consumption within a population.
Anna Torgny Andersen (Denmark)
Discussant: Kaye Fillmore (USA)
Role transitions in different stages of the life course and their relationship to changes in alcohol use and drinking.
Rudie Neve (Netherlands)
The effects of positional role changes on drinking patterns: A longitudinal study from 1992 to 1995 among Quebec heavy drinkers.
Catherine Paradis, Andrée Demers and Louise Nadeau (Canada)
Discussant: Klaus Mäkelä (Finland)
SESSION B
Chair: Jamie D. Wiebe
Abstinence in young adulthood; psychosocial characteristics and impact of parental drinking habits.
Anne Holtung and Ingeborg Rossow (Norway)
Parents and alcohol education.
Moira Plant, Christine Thornton and Martin Plant (UK)
Discussant: Gordon E. Barnes (Canada)
Youth and hazardous behaviour.
Han Kuipers (Netherlands)
Drinking among Swedish adolescents - a longitudinal approach.
Karin Helmersson Bergman (Sweden)
Discussant: George Smeaton (USA)
SESSION C
Chair: Salme Ahlström
Body water and women’s drinking behaviour.
Richard W. Wilsnack, Arlinda F. Kristjanson, Nancy D. Vogeltanz and Sharon C. Wilsnack (USA)
Abuse and dependence of alcohol in Swedish women: role of education, occupation and family structure.
Kajsa-Lena Thundal and Peter Allebeck (Sweden)
Discussant: Christoffer Tigerstedt (Finland)
Alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems of women in Russia.
Marina Loukomskaïa (Russia)
Women and alcohol related problems.
Galina Korchagina and Y. Vassiliev (Russia)
Discussant: Sharon C. Wilsnack (USA)
14:00 - 15:30
SESSION A
Chair: Han Kuipers
Long-term effects of warning labels: Findings from a comparison of the United States and Ontario, Canada.
Karen L. Graves, Thomas K. Greenfield and Lee A. Kaskutas (USA)
Israeli Arab and Jewish youth knowledge and opinion about alcohol warning labels: Pre-intervention data.
Shoshana Weiss (Israel)
Discussant: Tim Stockwell (Australia)
Impact of liking for advertising and brand allegiance on drinking and alcohol-related aggression: a longitudinal study.
Sally Casswell and Jia-fang Zhang (New-Zealand)
Italian debate on alcohol advertising regulation.
Franca Beccaria (Italy)
Discussant: William C. Kerr (USA)
SESSION B
Chair: Barbro Andersson
Juvenile drinking in Italy: socio-economic transformations and patterns of consumption.
Elisabetta Forni and Amedeo Cottino (Italy)
Attitudinal ambivalence and adolescent drinking.
Joel W. Grube and Gina E. Agostinelli (USA)
Discussant: Rutger Engels (Netherlands)
Intensity of alcohol use and neurotism of the university students.
Elzbieta M. Aranowska and Jadwiga B. Slawinska (Poland)
Binge drinking and drug abuse among college students during a spring break at a beach-front destination.
Uta C. Dietrich (Australia), George Smeaton (USA) and Bharath M. Josiam (USA)
Discussant: Patrick Miller (UK)
SESSION C
Chair: Jan Blomqvist
Alcohol and drug disorders in the international classification of diseases: a shifting kaleidoscope.
Robin Room (Canada)
Discussant: Lars Oscarsson (Sweden)
Comparison between people in the general population who meet the DIS-III-R criteria for alcohol abuse and clinical alcoholics.
Carole M. Beaudoin, Robert P. Murray and Gordon E. Barnes (Canada)
Heavy drinkers and patients with substance disorder: a comparison using the Addiction Severity Index.
Louise Nadeau (Canada)
Discussant: Fredrik Spak (Sweden)
16:00 - 17:30
Working Meetings
Bio-Med (Project participants only)
Organizer: Kim Bloomfield (Germany)
International Research Group on Gender and Alcohol (IRGGA).
Organizer: Sharon C. Wilsnack (USA)
Consortium of European Alcohol Research Centres Membership meeting.
Presiding. Henk Carretsen (Netherlands)
Abstainers and J-shaped risk curves (Project participants only).
Organizer: Ingeborg Rossow (Norway)
Community Prevention Research.
Organizers: Harold Holder and Marja Holmila
WEDNESDAY JUNE 4, 1997
9:00 - 10:30
PLENARY
Chair: Peter Nygaard
Public services and the self-help movement for alcohol related problems in Italy.
Valentino Patussi, S.Polvani, Kelly Engleman and F.Giunti (Italy)
Addiction careers and careers in addiction.
Harold K.-H. Klingemann (Switzerland)
Discussant: Karin Helmersson Bergmark (Sweden)
Factors influencing recovery from different addictions.
Anja Koski-Jännes (Canada)
Treated and untreated recovery form alcohol misuse: environmental influences and perceived reasons.
Jan Blomqvist (Sweden)
Discussant: Irmgard Eisenbach-Stangl (Austria)
10:30 - 11:00
BREAK
11:00 - 12:30
SESSION A
Chair: Jaana Jaatinen
Juvenile alcohol consumption and violence: A cross-national study.
Giora Rahav (Israel)
Discussant: Martin Plant (UK)
Incidents of aggression among young people drinking in bars.
Kathryn Graham. Paulette West and Samantha Wells (Canada)
Drinking-driving multiple offenders in the Swiss prison system: notes on a short-term driver improvement program in Zurich.
Hermann Fahrenkrug and Holger Schmid (Switzerland)
Discussant: Thor Norström (Sweden)
SESSION B
Chair: Mariann Olsson
The treatment system of alcohol-related problems as a deviant model within the health care system.
Allaman Allamani (Italy)
Substance abuse treatment in Sweden: local organization and resources.
Anders Bergmark and Lars Oscarsson (Sweden)
Discussant: Harold K.-H. Klingemann (Switzerland)
Professional treatment and mutual aid: Different offers for female alcoholics or offers for women with different alcohol-related problems?
Irmgard Eisenbach-Stangl (Austria)
Discussant: Nancy Vogeltanz (USA)
SESSION C
Chair: Alan Bostrom
Alcohol consumption and the working population: Rates of excessive and problem drinking in different occupational groups.
Ien van de Goor, Inge Bongers and Henk Garretsen (Netherlands)
Socioeconomic determinants of drinking patterns and problems in Canada, national and regional effects.
Josée Blackburn and Edward M. Adlaf (Canada)
Discussant: Jussi Simpura (Finland)
Patterns of alcohol use and social problems due to alcohol.
Robert P. Murray, Carole M. Beaudoin, Jamie D. Wiebe and Gordon E. Barnes (Canada)
An attempt to measure anomie.
Judit Oprics (Hungary)
Discussant: Pia Mäkelä (Finland)
THURSDAY JUNE 5, 1997
9:00 - 10:30
PLENARY
Chair: Robert P. Murray
On writing a white paper on drug policy.
Astrid Skretting (Norway)
Slow motion: Traditional and moderate drinking patterns in Finland, 1968 to 1992.
Jussi Simpura and Juha Partanen (Finland)
Discussant: Sally Casswell (New-Zealand)
Public opinion and alcohol policy: comparisons of two Canadian general population surveys.
Norman Giesbrecht and Lynn Kavanagh (Canada)
Public attitudes towards alcohol control in Finland in the 1990s.
Salme Ahlström and Esa Österberg (Finland)
Discussant: Deborah A. Dawson (USA)
11:00 - 12:30
SESSION A
Chair: Louise Nadeau
A study of the alcohol policy development process in the United States: Status report of research in progress.
Thomas Greenfield (USA), Norman Giesbrecht (Canada), Suzanna Johnson and Lynn Kavanagh (Canada)
Does politics occupy our mind? Changing tendencies of suicide and alcoholism in Hungary.
Zsuzsanna Elekes (Hungary)
Discussant: Sturla Nordlund (Norway)
Potentially confounding factors in the relationship between local rates of alcohol sales and of alcohol problems.
Tim Stockwell and Lisa Masters (Australia)
Gross-border shopping of alcoholic beverages between Sweden and Denmark after the Swedish EU-membership.
Björn Trolldal (Sweden)
Discussant: Inge Bongers (Netherlands)
SESSION B
Chair: Frances Baker Dickman
Alcohol-related mortality in Italy, 1980 - 1990.
Francesco Cipriani and Sandro Landucci (Italy)
Alcohol-related mortality in Ukraine in 1980 - 1996.
Constantin Krasovsky (Ukraine)
Discussant: Eckart Kühlhorn (Sweden)
The contribution of alcohol-related deaths to socioeconomic variation in mortality.
Pia Mäkelä (Finland)
Social class and alcohol-related mortality.
Thor Norström (Sweden)
Discussant: Ronald A. Knibbe (Netherlands)
SESSION C
Chair: Carole Beaudoin
Alcohol detoxification in the community: A general practitioners perspective of the home detoxification service in the central region of Scotland.
Sarah Madden (UK)
Improving early detection of problem drinking in general practice.
Hans van Oers, G.-J. Meerkerk, Ko Njoo, P.Trienekens and Inge Bongers (Netherlands)
Discussant: Kelly Engelman (Italy)
Alcohol consumption and mouth.
José Barrias (Portugal)
On addiction. Layconceptions of alcoholism in the light of the semiotic theory of modalities.
Pekka Sulkunen (Finland)
Discussant: Knud-Erik Sabroe (Denmark)
14:00 - 15:30
SESSION A
Regulating the dangerous. Change in social life of Woodland Village.
Marja Holmila (Finland)
Isolated communities, alcohol control and violence: the case of Barrow, Alaska.
Robert Nasj Parker (USA)
Discussant: Florence Kellner (Canada)
A symbolic crusade in Europe? Perspectives on European (Danish - Swedish) prohibition.
Sidsel Eriksen (Denmark)
Does alcohol consumption produce the alcohol problem?
Hasso Spode (Germany)
Discussant: Robin Room (USA)
SESSION B
Chair: Saija Järvinen
Communication between partners in community action projects: The importance of spoken and unspoken interest.
Peter Nygaard (Denmark)
The waxing and waning of interest in workplace alcohol policies in the United Kingdom: 1977 - 1984.