ALICE RAP Science Findings
The ALICE RAP Science Findings give a simple (1-2 page) account of each of the main results coming out of the different lines of research undertaken in the project. Each Science Finding gives a summary of the results and links to further reading and the more detailed ALICE RAP deliverable reports.
The full volume of science findings is now available for download.
Documents
AR Science Findings 15 - Socioeconomic costs of gambling
Date added: | 06/15/2016 |
Date modified: | 06/30/2016 |
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It is clear that the increasing availability and varied forms of gambling and gaming will have socio-economic impacts, but the reliability of estimates of these is hampered by research gaps.
Key words: problem gambling, expansion, social costs, data avilability
Author(s): Remmers P
AR Science Findings 16 - Evolutionary drivers
Date added: | 02/01/2016 |
Date modified: | 06/30/2016 |
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Understanding human evolutionary behaviour and the common mismatch between the way we run our lives in present times and the way our lives were run in the environment in which we evolved can provide better pointers as to what needs to be done to reduce the ill-health and premature death resulting from the use of alcohol and drugs.
Key words: ill-health, heavy use, drugs, evolutionary behaviour
Lead author(s): Anderson
AR Science Findings 17 - Transitions into harm
Date added: | 02/01/2016 |
Date modified: | 06/30/2016 |
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Determinants at the level of the social, economic and political environment are more important in the transition to risky substance use and gambling whilst determinants at the individual and sub-individual level of analysis are more dominant in the transition to harmful behaviours.
Key words: determinants, harmful behaviour, transitions, risky behaviour
Lead author(s): Lees, Gell, McLeod, Bühringer, Meier, Lingford-Hughes, Holmes, Forberger
AR Science Findings 18 - Transitions out of harm
Date added: | 02/01/2016 |
Date modified: | 06/30/2016 |
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Limited research evidence exists on the determinants of transitions from high-risk to low-risk substance use and gambling that occur without clinical or psychotherapeutic intervention; however, evidence supports that a key driver of transitions from harmful to low-risk substance use or gambling is life changes in the user, for example getting a job, getting married and having children.
Key words: determinants, reduction, life changes, harmful behaviours
Lead author(s): Gell, McLeod, Bühringer, Meier, Lingford-Hughes, Holmes, Forberger
AR Science Findings 19 - implicit cognitions in addiction
Date added: | 06/09/2016 |
Date modified: | 06/30/2016 |
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Automatic biases towards alcohol drinking in adolescents are related to a genetic vulnerability; and online interventions which directly target such cognitive-motivational processes show promise as add-ons to treatment for clinical alcohol problems.
Key words: alcohol, cannabis, implicit cognitions, online interventions
Lead author(s): Weirs & Pronk