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This page contains information on what's new at ARG and a listing of press releases. Press releases are issued by the communications department at the Public Health Institute (PHI) and are available for viewing on their site. Media inquiries should be directed to PHI.
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The Alcohol Research Group becomes a WHO Collaborating Center
The World Health Organization (WHO) has designated the Alcohol Research Group (ARG) a Collaborating Center for Alcohol Epidemiology and Injury. The center will be headed by Cheryl J. Cherpitel, DrPH, a senior scientist and associate director of the National Alcohol Research Center at ARG who is well known for her international studies on the epidemiology of alcohol-related injury and violence. Click here to read more.ARG Scientist Cheryl Cherpitel discusses her project "Cross-National Analysis of Alcohol and Injury"
Cheryl Cherpitel discusses issues of culture, control, consent and country-to-country consumption raised by her project ‘Cross-National Analysis of Alcohol and Injury’ with Research Media. Click here to view document.ARG Scientist Discusses Challenge of Determining how AA works on NPR
Alcohol Research Group scientist Lee Kaskutas recently appeared on NPR’s OnPoint to talk about the legacy of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), its “12 steps” and science. In an interview with Wired Magazine contributing editor Brendan Koerner, Kaskutas discussed an article on the secret of AA’s success in helping recovering alcoholics stay sober recently published in Wired. For decades, experts have been unable to explain exactly how and why AA works. But researchers are most stymied by the fact that the program’s efficacy cannot be tested in a randomized experiment, the scientific gold standard. To listen to the show, click here. To read the original article, click here.
ARG Scientists Hosting a Session at APHA 2009
ARG scientists and affiliate scientists will be hosting a session titled "Drinking patterns and harms: New findings from the National Alcohol Survey". This session's objectives are to define drinking patterns and understand their importance in predicting alcohol-related problems, evaluate heavy drinking and its role in acute and chronic consequences, and to discuss the alcohol policy/prevention implications of new population-based risk curve findings from National Alcohol Surveys.
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ARG Scientific Director Wins APHA Section Award
Tom Greenfield, Scientific Director and Center Director of the National Alcohol Research Center, has received a section leadership award from the American Public Health Associations's Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs (ATOD) section. This award recgonizes and ATOD section member who has made significant contributions to the section and field.
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Press Releases
January 20, 2010
Public Health Institute to Test New Treatment for Methamphetamine Addiction in Contra Costa County, California.
Methamphetamine use is rapidly increasing and reaching epidemic proportions in certain parts of the country such as the western United States. The addiction afflicts more than 400,000 people in the country and costs society more than $20 billion every year. To test how well a new treatment approach that uses Motivation Enhancement Therapy helps people quit using methamphetamine, researchers at the Alcohol Research Group (of the Public Health Institute) study more than 200 people who are or have recently been dependent on methamphetamine at an alcohol and drug treatment center in Lafayette, California.
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