The Handbook of Alcohol Use

Alcohol use is complex and multifaceted. Our understanding must be also.

Alcohol use, both problematic and not, can be understood at many levels – from basic biological systems through to global public health interventions. To provide the multi-level perspective needed to address this complexity, the Handbook of Alcohol Use draws together an eclectic set of authors, including both researchers and practitioners, to examine the causes, processes and effects of alcohol consumption. Specifically, this book approaches the topic from biological, individual cognition, small group/systems, and domestic/global population perspectives. Each examines alcohol use differently and each offers its own ways to combat problematic behavior. While these alternative viewpoints are sometimes construed as incompatible or antagonistic, the current volume also explores how they can be complimentary.

In summary, the Handbook of Alcohol Use brings together an international group of experts to explore how alcohol use can be understood from various perspectives and how these conceptualizations relate. In doing so, it allows us to understand alcohol consumption, and our responses to it, more from an account which spans ‘from synapse to society’.

• Explores alcohol use from individual through to societal levels
• Synthesizes these varied levels of analysis on alcohol use
• Draws on an international team of experts including researchers and alcohol treatment practitioners
• Makes clear the implications of research for practice (and vice versa).

Researchers, professors, and students in the field of psychology and addiction, health psychology, and the biology of addiction. Secondary markets include those in public health and policy change

Section 1 Positioning alcohol use and misuse

1. Contemplating the micro and macro of alcohol use
and misuse to enable meta-understandings 3
Ian P. Albery and Daniel Frings

2. The world’s favorite drug: What we have learned
about alcohol from over 500,000 respondents to the
Global Drug Survey 17
Emma L. Davies, Cheneal Puljevic, Dean Connolly,
Ahnjili Zhuparris, Jason A. Ferris and Adam R. Winstock

3. Transparency and replication in alcohol research 49
Katie Drax and Marcus R. Munafo

Section 2 Within the body and mind

4. Alcohol and mental health: Co-occurring
alcohol use and mental health disorders 79
Raffaella Margherita Milani and Luisa Perrino

5. The pharmacological understandings of
alcohol use and misuse 107
Abigail Rose and Andrew Jones

6. Learning from the dead: How death provides
insights into alcohol-related harm 141
Shane Darke

Section 3 The individual

7. Levels of cognitive understanding: Reflective
and impulsive cognition in alcohol use and misuse 157
Dinkar Sharma and James Cane

8. Social cognition in severe alcohol use disorder 175
Fabien D’Hondt, Benjamin Rolland and Pierre Maurage

9. Metacognitive therapy for Alcohol Use Disorder:
Theoretical foundations and treatment principles 201
Giovanni Mansueto, Gabriele Caselli and Marcantonio M. Spada

10. Promoting problem recognition amongst harmful
drinkers: A conceptual model for problem
framing factors 221
James Morris, Ian P. Albery, Antony C. Moss and Nick Heather

11. A psychological-systems goal-theory model of
alcohol consumption and treatment 237
W. Miles Cox and Eric Klinger

12. Alcohol consumption in context: The effect of
psych-socio-environmental drivers 261
Rebecca Monk and Derek Heim

Section 4 The group

13. I can keep up with the best: The role of social
norms in alcohol consumption and their use in
interventions 285
Sandra Kuntsche, Robin Room and Emmanuel Kuntsche

14. Alcohol consumption and group decision making 303
Hirotaka Imada, Tim Hopthrow and Dominic Abrams

15. An identity-based explanatory framework for
alcohol use and misuse 329
Daniel Frings and Ian P. Albery

Section 5 Cultural questions

16. Alcohol consumption and cultural systems: Global
similarities and differences 355
Miyuki Fukushima Tedor

17. Alcohol and the legal system: Effects of alcohol on
eyewitness testimony 379
Julie Gawrylowicz and Georgina Bartlett

18. Spiritual and religious influences 399
Paramabandhu Groves

19. Alcohol use in adolescence across U.S. race/ethnicity:
Considering cultural factors in prevention and
interventions 419
Leah M. Bouchard, Sunny H. Shin and Karen G. Chartier

20. Alcohol use and misuse: Perspectives from
seldom heard voices 453
Tran H. Le, Anthony M. Foster, Phoenix R. Crane
and Amelia E. Talley

Section 6 Taking it into practice

21. Theory-driven interventions: How social
cognition can help 485
Kristen P. Lindgren, Angelo M. DiBello, Kirsten P. Peterson
and Clayton Neighbors

22. Taking social identity into practice 511
Genevieve A. Dingle, Isabella Ingram, Catherine Haslam
and Peter J. Kelly

23. Working together: Opportunities and barriers to
evidence-based practice 531
Jan Larkin and Daniel Donkor

24. Transdermal alcohol monitors: Research,
applications, and future directions 551
Catharine E. Fairbairn and Dahyeon Kang

25. Recovery from addiction: A synthesis of perspectives
from behavioral economics, psychology,
and decision modeling 563
Amber Copeland, Tom Stafford and Matt Field

Section 7 Future directions

26. Alcohol addiction: A disorder of self-regulation
but not a disease of the brain 583
Nick Heather