BIDS 295 -- Alcohol Use and Abuse: Causes and Consequences

Texts

Books for purchase (in bookstore):
• Fearnow-Kenney, Melodie, and Wyrick, David L. (Editors), Alcohol Use and Harm Prevention: A Resource for College Students, Tanglewood Research, 2005 (referred to as AUHP in reading assignments).
• Fingarette, Herbert, Heavy Drinking, U. of California Press, 1988.
• Goodwin, Donald W., Alcoholism: The Facts (third edition), Oxford U. Press, 2000.
• Knapp, Caroline, Drinking: A Love Story, The Dial Press, 1996.
• Perkins, H. Wesley (Editor), The Social Norms Approach to Preventing School and College Age Substance Abuse: A Handbook for Educators, Counselors, and Clinicians, Jossey-Bass, 2003.

Books on reserve in the library (selected chapters to be read):
• Braun, Stephen, Buzz: The Science and Lore of Alcohol and Caffeine, Penguin Books, 1996. (six copies on reserve)
• Grant, Marcus and Litvak, Jorge (ed.), Drinking Patterns & Their Consequences, Taylor and Francis, 1998 (three copies on reserve).
• Venturelli, Peter J. (Editor), Drug Use in America: Social, Cultural, and Political Perspectives, Jones and Bartlett Pub., 1994 (three copies on reserve).

Articles:
• Bales, Robert F., “Cultural Differences in Rates of Alcoholism”, Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 6, pp480-499 (1946)
• Glassner, Barry, “Jewish Sobriety”, Society, Culture, and Drinking Patterns Reexamined, Chapter 15, pp311-326
• Perkins, H. Wesley, “Gender Patterns in Consequences of Collegiate Alcohol Abuse: A 10-Year Study of Trends in an Undergraduate Population”, Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 53, pp458-462 (1992)
• Perkins, H. Wesley, “Drinking Motivated by the Desire to Reduce Stress: Life Course and Gender Patterns among College-Educated Young Adults,” Alcoscope International Review of Alcoholism, 3, pp10-14 (2000)
• Perkins, H Wesley and Berkowitz, Alan D., “College COAs and Alcohol Abuse: Problem Drinking in Relation to Assessments of Parent and Grandparent Alcoholism”, Journal of Counseling and Development, 69, pp237-240 (1991)

Supplementary Book on HWS Library Reserve:
†U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Alcohol and Health: Eighth Special Report to Congress, Rockville, MD: National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 1993 (on reserve).

Required Feature Films:
Clean and Sober
When a Man Loves a Woman