Alcohol and HIV/AIDS Risk-Taking

The goal of this project was to illuminate the role played by intoxication in decision-making related to infectious diseases. The specific aims were (1) to examine the linkages among alcohol and risky behavior; (2) to evaluate the viability of the alcohol myopia model for explaining post-drinking attitudes and behavior; (3) to investigate alcohol impairment of behavior control; and (4) to expand the currently scant fund of experimental data about women after drinking by evaluating for systematic gender differences in these relationships for intoxication and risky behavior.