#joseph grinnell

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Photo of Anna's hummingbirds from Elizabeth and Joseph Grinnell's Our feathered friends (1898).

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25 May 1944. Joseph Bennett’s P-51B engaged Hubert Heckmann's Me Bf109G-6/AS in combat. Both pilots survived, Bennett became as POW. Art by Roy Grinnell.

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flautista:

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facilier:

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[scitechman]

California Birds Nesting a Week Earlier Than They Did a Century Ago

A new study suggests that many of the state’s birds are adapting to rising temperatures by breeding earlier than they did a century ago.

A comparison of nesting data recorded in the early 1900s with similar data today for more than 200 species of California birds shows that overall they are breeding five to 12 days earlier than they did 75 to 100 years ago.

Earlier studies found that many but not…

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The origin legend of the Blackfoot buffalo society by Joseph Campbell

This story is of a time when a certain tribe was facing a desperate winter. The Indians had a way to kill a whole herd of buffalo, which gave the tribe its meat for the winter, by stampeding them over a great precipice.

So the animals go over and are knocked to pieces at the bottom and then they can be killed.

But this particular year when they had stampeded the buffalo and the buffalo would get to the edge, they would swerve aside — nobody was going over. So it looked bad for the tribe.

One morning a young woman gets up to get the water for her family. From the tepee she sees the buffalo just up there, right on the edge, and she says, “Oh, if you’d only come over and give food to my people for the winter, I would marry one of you.” And immediately they began coming over.

Well, that was a surprise. A still larger surprise was that one of them comes up and says, “All right, girlie, we’re off."

“Oh, no,” she says.

“Oh, yes,” he says. “Look, it’s happened, and you’ve given your promise and we’ve done the work.”

So he takes her by the arm (it’s hard to know how a buffalo can take you by the arm but he does), and he leads her off over the hill and out onto the plains. When her family wakes up the next morning they look around and ask, “Where’s Minnehaha, anyhow?”

Then Daddy goes out, and being an Indian he knows how to read in footprints what’s going on.

He looks and says, “She’s run off with a buffalo.” He puts on his walking moccasins and he takes his bow and arrow and goes off to find his daughter among the buffalo.

After he’s followed these footsteps and gone a considerable way, he comes to a wallow where the buffalo like to roll around to get the lice off.

He sits down and thinks, What am I going to do?

Then he sees a beautiful magpie. Now in the hunting mythologies there are certain animals that are very clever: magpies and foxes and blue jays and ravens.

These are sort of shaman animals. So the magpie comes down and begins picking around, and the father says, “Beautiful bird, my daughter has run off with a buffalo. Have you seen a young woman with the buffalo people?”

The magpie says, “Yes, there’s a young woman with the buffalo over there right now.”

So the father says, “Oh, will you go tell her that her father is here?”

The magpie flies over and there she is. I don’t know what she’s doing — knitting or something like that — and behind her all the buffalo are having a nap. Right behind her is the great big fellow.

The bird comes pecking over and says, “Your father’s at the wallow.”

“Oh, dear,” she says. “This is dangerous. This is terrible. Tell him to wait. I'll see about this.”

Presently the buffalo wakes up, the big fellow behind her, and takes off one of his horns and says, “Go get me some water.”

She takes the horn and goes to the wallow and there’s Daddy. Daddy grabs her and he says, “You come.”

“No, no, no, this is very dangerous. Let me fix this thing up.” So she gets the water and goes back to the buffalo. He takes it and sniffs and says, “Fee, fi, fo, fum, I smell the blood of an Indian.”

And she says, “Oh, no.”

And he says, “Yes,” and he roars, and all the buffalo get up and they lift their tails and start to dance and roar and go to the wallow and trample Daddy into invisibility. He's just not there anymore; she has just wiped him out.

The girl begins to cry and the old buffalo says, “So you’re crying, what’s the matter?”

“It’s my Daddy.”

He says, “Yeah, you’ve lost your daddy, but we lose our wives and our uncles, our children, and everything, to feed your people.”

“Well,” she says, “but—Daddy!"

There’s a kind of sympathy in the buffalo for her and he says, “Well, if you can bring your daddy back to life, I'll let you go”

So she calls the magpie and says, “Will you peck around a little and see if you can find a piece of Daddy?” And he does. He pecks around and finds a little vertebrae, a bit of backbone.

“I’ve got something here,” he says.

“Well,” she says, “that’ll do.”

So she puts it down on the ground and takes her robe and puts it over the piece of bone and starts to chant.

She chants a magical power song. And presently you can see there’s a man under the buffalo robe.

She looks under, and yes, it’s Daddy all right. But he needs a little more singing.

And she goes on with her chant and presently he stands up. The buffalo are tremendously excited about this. And they say, “Well, now, why don’t you do this for us? Why don’t you bring us back to life after you've killed us all?

Now we'll give you our buffalo dance, we'll tell you how to do it.

And when you've slaughtered a lot of our people, you dance this dance and sing your song and we'll come every year to feed your people."

This is the origin legend of the Blackfoot buffalo society. It was published in a book I read when I was a kid by George Bird Grinned, a really marvelous writer and collector of Indian material; it's called Blackfoot Lodge Tales.

—The Hero’s Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work

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Another lady whaler, from the Whalemen’s Shipping List April 14th 1863

[Transcript: A Female Sailor. — Ship Euphrates, Capt. Hathaway, which sailed from this port last August on a whaling voyage, when two day out discovered what appeared to be a boy about 15 years old stowed away in the ship. When arrived at Fayal. Capt. Hathaway shipped him for the two hundred and fiftieth lay, and the ship proceeded on her voyage; but when within a few days sail of Talcahuano, the boy who assumed the name of Charles Baker, was discovered to be a girl, and a daughter of a citizen of New Bedford. On arriving at Talcahuano she was put on board the bark Joseph Grinnell, as passenger, for this port.]

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Less than 400 Humboldt martens survive, with a special population living in dunes on the shore of the Pacific:

Most Pacific martens live in the mountains, but Humboldt martens -- a rare subspecies -- make their home along the coast. They once ranged from Northern California to the Oregon-Washington border, filling the ancient, towering forests that fringed the Pacific shore. Now, they’ve all but disappeared, and recently gained formal protection under the US Endangered Species Act. To everyone’s surprise, however, scientists discovered one of the few remaining populations here, on a strip of overgrown sand dunes 75 kilometers long and half a kilometer wide. This stand of moss-cloaked shore pine and punishing shrubs in the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area [...] looks nothing like the majestic old-growth forests of yore. But the martens don’t seem to mind.

Indeed, this is the densest population anywhere on Earth. It’s also one of the most imperiled. The martens face threats from cars, development, and worst of all, isolation. More than 100 kilometers of fragmented forests and roads separates them from their nearest neighbors [...]. For decades, scientists feared that Humboldt martens had gone extinct. Then, in 1996, researchers spotted telltale prints on a track plate left in the woods of Northern California. In the years following, they found more signs of the animals. [...]

They constantly patrol the borders of their home range, traveling an average of six kilometers a day. “You have an animal that’s the size of a kitten,” Moriarty says. Yet “they are moving almost as much or more than a mountain lion on a daily basis.” [...]

By the time the naturalist Joseph Grinnell identified Humboldt martens as a distinct subspecies in 1926, demand for their luxurious pelts had already made the animals scarce. California banned trapping of coastal martens in 1946, but then came industrial logging. Timber companies harvested the biggest, oldest trees in which martens made their dens. And clearcuts left little protective cover on the landscape. Today, Humboldt martens occupy just seven percent of their historical range. [...]

Scientists now know of only four populations, each estimated to contain fewer than 100 adults. One resides just east of Redwood National and State Parks in Northern California. One straddles the California-Oregon border, and another hugs the southern Oregon coast near the Rogue River. In these three, most marten sightings have occurred in large patches of old-growth forest. [...]

[T]he dune martens haven’t always fit in. Their existence challenged the long-held belief that martens primarily live in old-growth forests of redwood or Douglas fir. The short, gnarled trees here are no bigger than a fir branch, and the forest itself is young and somewhat artificial. Rolling dunes used to cover the area, but in the early 1900s, government agencies and private landowners planted beach grass to stop sand from blowing onto coastal roads. The grass stabilized the ground enough for shrubs to root, including invasive Scotch broom. Trees eventually followed, and by the middle of the century, a scrubby forest had sprouted. [...]

Research by Moriarty and her team has revealed that the shore pine forest makes a good home for martens because of its dense understory and abundant food. In fact, the 70-odd martens here have the smallest home range of any in the world. [...]

She’s come to suspect that the martens’ presence in this strange environment is actually a window into their past. Similar stands may have grown along flat, sandy stretches of the Oregon coast before towns and housing developments replaced them. And martens likely used that habitat until it vanished. [...] The paradox of the dune martens is that, despite their high density, the population also teeters on the verge of annihilation. The dunes actually host two groups of martens, separated by the Umpqua River, and each has barely enough adults to remain viable. For both, losing just two to three adults per year could send the population spiraling toward extinction, according to a 2018 study [...].

And new threats continue to arise. A Canadian pipeline company hopes to build a liquified natural gas terminal on private land at the southern end of the dunes. The Jordan Cove Project recently gained a key federal approval [...].

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Headlines, images, captions, and all text published by: Julia Rosen. “Trapped between pavement and the Pacific.” Hakai Magazine. 10 November 2020.

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The bushy-tailed carnivores were once common, but now fewer than 100 of them survive in California, while an unknown but very small number are still found in Oregon. A slender mustelid related to minks and otters, the coastal marten survives only in three isolated populations in old-growth forest and dense coastal shrub in Northern California and southern and central coastal Oregon. The marten faces a barrage of threats, including logging, fire, climate change, trapping in Oregon, vehicle strikes, rodenticide poisoning and small population size. [...] The coastal martens’ historic range extended from Sonoma County in coastal California north through the coastal mountains of Oregon; in Oregon the marten now lives only in a small area within Siskiyou and Siuslaw national forests. Coastal martens were believed extinct in California -- with 95 percent of their old-growth forest habitat lost and a history of excessive trapping -- until they were rediscovered on the Six Rivers National Forest in 1996. In 2009, the first California marten to be photographed in recent times was detected in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park by remote-sensing camera. [Text excerpt from: “Saving the coastal marten.” Earth Justice.]

Historical distribution of American marten (in blue) and Pacific marten (in red-ish). Within the contiguous US, both species of marten have been eliminated from much of this historical distribution. The Humboldt marten is a subspecies/sub-population of the Pacific marten.

[justforbooks]

Frances Moore Lappé was born on February 10, 1944. She is an American researcher and author in the area of food and democracy policy. She is the author of 19 books including the three-million-copy selling 1971 book Diet for a Small Planet, which the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History describes as “one of the most influential political tracts of the times." She is the co-founder of three national organizations that explore the roots of hunger, poverty and environmental crises, as well as solutions now emerging worldwide through what she calls Living Democracy. Her most recent books include Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want, coauthored with Adam Eichen, and World Hunger: 10 Myths. with Joseph Collins. In 1987, she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "revealing the political and economic causes of world hunger and how citizens can help to remedy them."

Frances Moore Lappé's works have been translated into 15 languages, the most recent of which is a Chinese publication of Hope’s Edge.

Diet for a Small Planet, Ballantine Books, 1971, 1975, 1982, 1991.

Great Meatless Meals (with Ellen Buchman Ewald), Ballantine Books, 1974, 1976, 1981, 1985.

Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity (co-authored by Joseph Collins, collaboration with Cary Fowler), Houghton Mifflin, 1977, Ballantine Books, 1979.

What To Do After You Turn Off the T.V., Ballantine Books, 1985.

World Hunger: Twelve Myths (with Joseph Collins), Grove Press, 1986, 1998.

Rediscovering America's Values, Ballantine Books, 1989

The Quickening of America: Rebuilding Our Nation, Remaking Our Lives (with Paul Martin Du Bois), Jossey-Bass, 1994.

Hope’s Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet (with Anna Lappé), Tarcher/Penguin, 2002.

You Have the Power: Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear (with Jeffrey Perkins), Tarcher/Penguin, 2004.

Democracy's Edge: Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life, Jossey-Bass, 2005.

Getting A Grip: Clarity, Creativity and Courage in a World Gone Mad, Small Planet Media, 2007.

Getting A Grip 2: Clarity, Creativity and Courage for the World We Really Want, Small Planet Media, 2010.

EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think to Create the World We Want, Small Planet Media, 2011

World Hunger: Ten Myths (with Joseph Collins), Grove Press, 2015.

Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want (co-authored by Adam Eichen), Beacon Press, 2017.

Historian Howard Zinn wrote: “A small number of people in every generation are forerunners, in thought, action, spirit, who swerve past the barriers of greed and power to hold a torch high for the rest of us. Lappé is one of those.” The Washington Post says: “Some of the twentieth century’s most vibrant activist thinkers have been American women – Margaret Mead, Jeannette Rankin, Barbara Ward, Dorothy Day – who took it upon themselves to pump life into basic truths. Frances Moore Lappé is among them."

In 2008, she was honored by the James Beard Foundation as the Humanitarian of the Year. In the same year, Gourmet Magazine named Lappé among 25 people (including Thomas Jefferson, Upton Sinclair, and Julia Child), whose work has changed the way America eats. Diet for a Small Planet was selected as one of 75 Books by Women Whose Words Have Changed the World by members of the Women's National Book Association in observance of its 75th anniversary.

Lappé has received 19 honorary doctorates from distinguished institutions, including the University of Michigan, Kenyon College, Allegheny College, Lewis and Clark College, Grinnell College and University of San Francisco. In 1987 in Sweden, Lappé became the fourth American to receive the Right Livelihood Award. In 2003, she received the Rachel Carson Award from the National Nutritional Foods Association. She was selected as one of twelve living "women whose words have changed the world" by the Women's National Book Association.

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Excerpt from this story from the Audubon Society:

The Mojave Desert, like many deserts across the world, is getting hotter and drier. Over the last century, it’s warmed by about 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius), and its already sparse rainfall has declined by 20 percent in some areas. Even before modern climate change, the Mojave’s birds lived at extremes; many desert birds have evolved special drought adaptations to save water. Now they’re facing conditions that exceed their physiological limits, according to new research published today in Science.

The study accounts for changes in the Mojave’s wildlife over the past century using data from the Grinnell Resurvey Project. The research, led by ornithologist Steve Beissinger at the University of California, Berkeley, retraces the steps of famed naturalist Joseph Grinnell and resurveys the hundreds of sites where he and his field staff counted birds and mammals across California between 1908 and 1968. (Grinnell died in 1939.) By comparing the new data with the old, Beissinger and his team can analyze how bird populations have changed since Grinnell's observations.

According to the resurvey data, the Mojave’s small mammal populations are stable. At 90 study sites across the desert, only three lost mammal species; on average, each site lost two and gained two species. Birds, however, saw drastic declines. Bird diversity went down at 55 out of 61 sites, each losing an average of 18 species. That’s a 42 percent decline in bird diversity across the Mojave, and mostly on protected land. Species that experienced the biggest declines include raptors like American Kestrel, Prairie Falcon, and Turkey Vulture; insectivores like White-throated Swift, Western Kingbird, and Violet-green Swallow; and birds lacking desert adaptations like Northern Mockingbird, Western Wood-Pewee, and Chipping Sparrow. The loss is so catastrophic that scientists have deemed it a “collapse” of the Mojave’s birdlife.

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LOUIS SULLIVAN’S LATE WORKS

The lavish corporate commissions that had sustained the architecture firm of Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler dried up after the bank panic of 1893. Following the loss of his personal fortune and the dissolution his partnership with Adler, Sullivan’s practice declined steeply. With its high labor costs and robber baron asociations, Sullivan’s extravagant beaux-arts style quickly fell out of favor in the early 20th century. With the exception of the Carson, Pirie, Scott Department Store, Sullivan received no major commissions over the remaining two decades of his life.bu

A group of 8 small bank buildings from this period, however, proves that while Sullivan's career had disintegrated, his creative powers had not. Located in provincial midwestern cities, these “jewel box” banks recall the London churches of Wren and Hawksmoor—unimportant, intimately-scaled, exquisitely-detailed structures that provided the architect with an opportunity to experiment with variations on a architectural theme. To compensate for the size and simplicity of the bank buildings, Sullivan focused on the decorative component, lavishing florid, Jugendstil-inflected stained glass, mosaic, and epigraph on external features like doorwas, and arches, windows. The Wiener Sezession building by Joseph Maria Olbrich (1908) is clearly an important guiding model. Sullivan’s midwestern patrons, unaware of the advent of Bauhaus modernism, couldn’t have been more pleased by the opulent and exotic appearance of their new builings, all of which are still standing today.

National Farmers' Bank, 1908, Owatonna, Minnesota

Purdue State Bank Building, 1914, West Lafayette, Indiana

National Park Service Merchant's National Bank, 1914, Grinnell, Iowa

Home Building Association Company Bank, 1914, Newark, Ohio

Land and Loan Office Building, 1913, Algona, Iowa

Peoples' Savings and Loan Association, 1918, Sidney, Ohio

Farmers' & Merchants' Union Bank, 1919, Columbus, Wisconsin.

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California’s Birds Are Testing New Survival Tactics on a Vast Scale - The New York Times

More than a century ago, zoologist Joseph Grinnell launched a pioneering survey of animal life in California, a decades-long quest — at first by Model T or, failing that, mule — to all corners and habitats of the state, from Death Valley to the High Sierra.

Ultimately Grinnell, founding director of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley, and his colleagues produced one of the richest ecological records in the world: 74,000 pages of meticulously detailed field notes, recording the numbers, habits and habitats of all vertebrate species that the team encountered.

In 2003, museum scientists decided to retrace Grinnell’s steps throughout the state to learn what changes a century had wrought. And that’s why Morgan Tingley, then an ecology graduate student at the university, found himself trekking through the Sierra for four summers.

Dr. Tingley wanted to know how birds had fared since Grinnell last took a census. Years later, the answer turned out to be a bit of a shock.

Of 32,000 birds recorded in California mountain ranges in the old and new surveys — from thumb-sized Calliope hummingbirds to the spectacular pileated woodpecker — Dr. Tingley and his colleagues discovered that most species now nest about a week earlier than they did 70 to 100 years ago.

That slight advance in timing translates into nesting temperatures about two degrees Fahrenheit cooler than the birds would encounter had they not moved up their breeding time — almost exactly counterbalancing the two-degree rise in average temperatures recorded over the last century.

The scientists’ analysis, published last fall in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showed that the birds’ temperature-rebalancing act could limit the exposure of eggs and fragile nestlings to dangerous overheating.

Early nesting has been noted in individual bird species, but such a widespread behavioral change over a very large and varied landscape was “not on the radar at all,” said Jacob Socolar, a postdoctoral scientist in Dr. Tingley’s lab.

The study of 202 species showed that most of them are adapting to rising temperatures with “overlooked flexibility,” the scientists reported — unexpected hope for wildlife in an uncertain time.

“Does it mean climate change is not bad for you? No,” said Dr. Tingley, now an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Connecticut. “But any time we find that a species has more adaptive mechanisms to cope with climate change, that’s a good thing.”

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Saint Leo University’s 22nd Command Officer Management Cohort Graduates

Law Enforcement Officials from Citrus, Lake, Pasco, Sarasota, Sumter Counties Part of Class Saint Leo University’s 22nd Command Officer Management Cohort Graduates Law enforcement officers from five Florida counties, who make up the 22nd cohort of Saint Leo University’s Command Officer Management Program, received their diplomas on September 16. A graduation ceremony was held at the Tavares Pavilion on the Lake in Tavares, FL. This cohort was hosted by the Lake County Sheriff’s Office and Sheriff Peyton Grinnell was the keynote speaker. Saint Leo University’s Command Officer Management Program was designed to provide onsite education that prepares law enforcement officers for the transition to command staff by addressing areas such as leadership, ethics, human resources, critical incident management, and other relevant administrative competencies. The 18-credit hour certificate program consists of six courses during six months (three terms) for undergraduate or graduate academic credits.  Class XXII graduates and their agencies are: ● Citrus County Sheriff’s Office: Sergeant Bobby Price; ● Lake County Sheriff’s Office: Sergeant Timothy Beary, Sergeant Robert Casaburi, Sergeant Brian Forst, Sergeant Gerald Green, Sergeant David McDaniel, Sergeant Nate Pickens, Lieutenant Elvin Rodriguez, who also served as the class president, Corporal Bret Rutzebeck, Corporal Keith Sommer, and Sergeant Billy Walls; ● Pasco County Sheriff’s Office: Sergeant Eric Cayer and Lieutenant Luby Fields; ● Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office:  Lieutenant Joseph Mitchell and Lieutenant Ivan Nelson; and, ● Sumter County Sheriff’s Office: Sergeant Dave Clark and Sergeant Clinton Hayes. About Saint Leo University Saint Leo University is one of the largest Catholic universities in the nation, offering 57 undergraduate and graduate-level degree programs to more than 18,200 students each year. Founded in 1889 by Benedictine monks, the private, nonprofit university is known for providing a values-based education to learners of all backgrounds and ages in the liberal arts tradition. Saint Leo is regionally accredited and offers a residential campus in the Tampa Bay region of Florida, 16 education centers in five states, and an online program for students anywhere. The university is home to more than 98,000 alumni. Learn more at saintleo.edu. Media Contact: Mary McCoy, University Writer & Media Relations, mary.mccoy02@saintleo.edu, (352) 588-7118 or cell (813) 610-8416 Read the full article

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Coursera Data Management and Visualization Week1 – v2

13 Feb 2021

 Data set: National Epidemiologic Study of Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC)

SECTION 2C: Alcohol Treatment Utilization

 Hypothesis: Not all individuals follow through with alcohol treatment.  

Research Question 1:

 After looking through the codebook for the NESARC study, I have decided that I am particularly interested in alcohol treatment utilization. Starting with the column “EVER SOUGHT HELP BECAUSE OF DRINKING” (S2CQ1) I will examine usage of the thirteen available treatment options (S2CQ2A1 – S2CQ2A13).

 Did all individuals who sought treatment follow through with treatment options?

 Research Question 2:

 I am interested in effectiveness of alcohol treatment utilization. Starting with the column “WHEN WENT TO …” (S2CQ2B1 – S2CQB13) I will examine time periods for each of the thirteen available treatment options (S2CQ2A1 – S2CQ2A13).

 What percentage of the population remains active in treatment?

 I would also like to compare results from my Research Question 2 to the categorized treatment summaries from the article Latent Class Analysis of Alcohol Treatment Utilization Patterns and 3-Year Alcohol Related Outcomes.

 Classification

Multiservice Users (8.7%)

Private Professional Service Users (32.8%)

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) Paired with Specialty  Addiction Service Users (22.0%)

Users of AA Alone (36.5%)

  Literature review:

 Emily Cohen, Richard Feinn, Albert Arias, Henry R. Kranzler,

Alcohol treatment utilization: Findings from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions,

Drug and Alcohol Dependence,

Volume 86, Issues 2–3,

2007,

Pages 214-221,

ISSN 0376-8716,

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2006.06.008.

(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0376871606002298)

Abstract: Background

Epidemiological studies consistently show low rates of alcohol treatment utilization among individuals with an alcohol use disorder (AUD). However, there is not as great consistency in the characteristics that predict alcohol treatment utilization.

Methods

Using data from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC), we examined attributes associated with treatment utilization among individuals with an AUD. We used stepwise backward selection logistic regression analysis to examine demographic and clinical predictors of treatment utilization, in order to identify opportunities to improve the delivery of services to this population.

Results

Only 14.6% of individuals who met lifetime criteria for an AUD reported ever having received alcohol treatment (including self-help group participation). A greater proportion of respondents with both alcohol abuse and dependence (27.9%) reported having received treatment, compared with 7.5% of those with alcohol abuse only and 4.8% of those with alcohol dependence only. Older individuals, men, and those who were divorced, had less education or more lifetime comorbid mood, personality, and drug use disorders were also more likely to have received treatment.

Conclusions

The majority of individuals with an AUD never receive formal alcohol treatment, nor do they participate in self-help groups. Although natural recovery from an AUD is well documented, participation in alcohol treatment is associated with improved outcomes. The data presented here should be taken into account when efforts are made to enhance alcohol treatment utilization.

Literature review 2:

Keywords: NESARC; Alcohol treatment; Epidemiology; Alcohol use disorders; Service utilization

Orion Mowbray, Joseph E. Glass, Claudette L. Grinnell-Davis,

Latent Class Analysis of Alcohol Treatment Utilization Patterns and 3-Year Alcohol Related Outcomes,

Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment,

Volume 54,

2015,

Pages 21-28,

ISSN 0740-5472,

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsat.2015.01.012.

(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740547215000379)

Abstract: People who obtain treatment for alcohol use problems often utilize multiple sources of help. While prior studies have classified treatment use patterns for alcohol use, an empirical classification of these patterns is lacking. For the current study, we created an empirically derived classification of treatment use and described how these classifications were prospectively associated with alcohol-related outcomes. Our sample included 257 participants of the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC) who first received alcohol treatment in the 3-year period prior to their baseline interview. We used latent class analysis to identify classes of treatment users based on their patterns of treatment use of 13 types of alcohol treatment. Regression models examined how classes of treatment use at baseline were associated with alcohol-related outcomes assessed at a 3-year follow-up interview. Outcomes included a continuous measure of the quantity and frequency of alcohol use and DSM-IV alcohol use disorder status. Four classes of treatment users were identified: (1) multiservice users (8.7%), (2) private professional service users (32.8%), (3) alcoholics anonymous (AA) paired with specialty addiction service users (22.0%), and (4) users of AA alone (36.5%). Those who utilized AA paired with specialty addiction services had better outcomes compared to those who used AA alone. In addition to elucidating the most common treatment utilization patterns executed by people seeking help for their alcohol problems, the results from this study suggest that increased efforts may be needed to refer individuals across sectors of care to improve treatment outcomes.

Keywords: Treatment utilization; Alcohol use disorders; Latent class analysis

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