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Investigates the effects of alcohol and provocation on aggressive behavior in men and women in the U.S. Assessment of blood alcohol concentration following pain threshold testing; Absence of significant gender difference on aggression.

Tests a development model for the identification of risk factors of drug use in male adolescents in the United States with and without a family history of a substance use disorder. Low executive functioning; Relationship between difficult temperament and drug use; Affiliations with delinquent peers.

Numerous studies have demonstrated the existence of an association between alcoholism and antisocial personality (ASP). The present study tested two hypotheses: First, that nonalcoholic men with a muitigenerational familial history (MGH) of alcoholism would play more cards on a card task that has been shown previously to differentiate antisocial populations from normals and, second, that MGH subjects would display more evidence of ASP on two personality questionnaires: The Self-Report Psychopathy scale and the Socialization scale of the California Psychological Inventory. A total of 28 subjects (14 MGH and 14 family history negative for alcoholism [FH-]) were employed in this study. MGH subjects played significantly more cards during the card task than did FH- subjects. However, the two groups did not differ on the ASP questionnaires. The possibility that a subtle frontal-lobe deficit, rather than ASP per se, underlies the poorer performance of the MGH males is discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]