Contextual Interventions for Controlling Alcohol Drinking |
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| Authors: | ANUJ MUBAYI PRISCILLA E GREENWOOD |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Mathematics , Northeastern Illinois University , Chicago , Illinois , USA;2. Mathematical, Computational &3. Modeling Science Center, Arizona State University , Tempe , Arizona , USA;4. Prevention Research Center , Berkeley , California , USA a-mubayi@neiu.edu;6. Department of Statistics , University of British Columbia , Vancouver , Canada |
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| Abstract: | The dynamics of an alcohol drinking population are subject to environment-specific control programs. The stochastic model is developed that includes populations of light, moderate, and heavy drinkers, interacting in two contrasting risk-level drinking environments. For colleges with serious drinking problems, the times to disappearance of serious drinkers show that environment-dependent control programs have lasting efficacy when they are implemented according to the risk level of the environments and not by simply focusing on heavy drinking. |
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| Keywords: | disappearance time prevention and interventions quasi-stationary state social environments social influences |
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