Predicting Risky Drinking Outcomes Longitudinally: What Kind of Advance Notice Can We Get?

Authors: Zucker, Robert A.¹; Wong, Maria M.²; Clark, Duncan B.³; Leonard, Kenneth E.⁴; Schulenberg, John E.⁵; Cornelius, Jack R.³; Fitzgerald, Hiram E.⁶; Homish, Gregory G.⁴; Merline, Alicia; Nigg, Joel T.⁶; O'Malley, Patrick M.⁵; Puttler, Leon I.¹

Source: Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research, Volume 30, Number 2, February 2006 , pp. 243-252(10)

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

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Abstract:

This paper summarizes the proceedings of a symposium presented at the 2005 Research Society on Alcoholism meeting in Santa Barbara, California, that spans the interval from toddlerhood to early middle adulthood and addresses questions about how far ahead developmentally we can anticipate alcohol problems and related substance use disorder and how such work informs our understanding of the causes and course of alcohol problems and alcohol use disorder. The context of these questions both historically and developmentally is set by Robert Zucker in an introductory section. Next, Maria Wong and colleagues describe the developmental trajectories of behavioral and affective control from preschool to early adolescence in a high risk for alcoholism longitudinal study and demonstrate their ability to predict alcohol and drug outcomes in adolescence. Duncan Clark and Jack Cornelius follow with a report on the predictive utility of parental disruptive behavior disorders in predicting onset of alcohol problems in their adolescent offspring in late adolescence. Next, Kenneth Leonard and Gregory Homish report on adult development study findings relating baseline individual, spouse, and peer network drinking indicators at marriage onset that distinguish different patterns of stability and change in alcohol problems over the first 2 years of marriage. In the final paper, John Schulenberg and colleagues, utilizing national panel data from the Monitoring the Future Study, which cover the 18- to 35-year age span, show how trajectories of alcohol use in early adulthood predict differential alcohol abuse and dependence outcomes at age 35. Finally, Robert Zucker examines the degree to which the core symposium questions are answered and comments on next step research and clinical practice changes that are called for by these findings.

Keywords: Longitudinal Studies; Predicting Alcohol Problems; High-Risk Research; Early-Onset Drinking

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2006.00033.x

Affiliations: 1: Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Addiction Research Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan; 2: the Department of Psychology, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho; 3: the Departments of Psychiatry and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Center for Education and Drug Abuse Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 4: the Research Institute on Addictions, Buffalo, New York; 5: the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; and 6: the Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.

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