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Harold D. Holder

Harold D. Holder

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
51
Citations
12976
World Ranking
2544
National Ranking
1243

Overview

Harold D. Holder is affiliated with the Pacific Institute in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on issues related to substance abuse treatment and outcomes, with specific attention to alcohol consumption and its health effects. The work also engages with related social issues such as homelessness, behavioral health interventions, injury epidemiology and prevention, traffic and road safety, and community health and development.

Their main fields of study include Medicine and Health Professions, while subfields encompass Epidemiology, General Health Professions, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Applied Psychology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Recent publications by Holder demonstrate an emphasis on alcohol-related health burdens and interventions. Notable articles include:

  • The burden of alcohol on health care during COVID-19 (2020, Drug and Alcohol Review)
  • Effects of a multi-component alcohol prevention intervention at sporting events: a quasi-experimental control group study (2021, Addiction)
  • Alcohol Compliance Checks and Underage Alcohol-Involved Crashes: Evaluation of a Statewide Enforcement Program in South Carolina from 2006 to 2016 (2020, Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research)
  • Time for carefully tailored set of alcohol policies to reduce health-care burden and mitigate potential unintended consequences? (2020, Drug and Alcohol Review)
  • Reducing Underage Drinking Through Visible Home Visits by Law Enforcement: An Efficacy Case Study Over 29 Months (2023, Journal of Drug Education)

Holder frequently collaborates with several co-authors across these studies. These collaborators include Tim Stockwell, Sven Andréasson, Cheryl J. Cherpitel, Tanya Chikritzhs, and Frida Dangardt.

Their publications appear regularly in peer-reviewed journals such as Drug and Alcohol Review, Addiction, Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research, and the Journal of Drug Education. These venues reflect Holder's consistent focus on topics related to substance abuse and public health interventions aimed at reducing alcohol-related harm.

Best Publications

  • Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity: Research and Public Policy

    Thomas Babor;Raul Caetano;Sally Casswell;Griffith Edwards

  • Effect of community-based interventions on high-risk drinking and alcohol-related injuries.

    Harold D. Holder;Paul J. Gruenewald;William R. Ponicki;Andrew J. Treno

  • The Cost Effectiveness of Treatment for Alcoholism: A First Approximation*

    Harold Holder;Richard Longabaugh;William R. Miller;Anthony V. Rubonis

  • Alcohol: No ordinary commodity: Research and public policy, 2nd ed.

    Thomas Babor;Raul Caetano;Sally Casswell;Griffith Edwards

  • The Relationship of Outlet Densities to Alcohol Consumption: A Time Series Cross‐Sectional Analysis

    Paul J. Gruenewald;William R. Ponicki;Harold D. Holder

  • The reduction of health care costs associated with alcoholism treatment: a 14-year longitudinal study.

    Harold D. Holder;J. O. Blose

  • Media advocacy in community prevention: news as a means to advance policy change

    Harold D. Holder;Andrew J. Treno

  • Mandated server training and reduced alcohol-involved traffic crashes: a time series analysis of the Oregon experience.

    Harold D. Holder;Alexander C. Wagenaar

  • Alcohol : No Ordinary Commodity – a summary of the second edition

    T. Babor;R. Caetano;S. Casswell;G. Edwards

  • A community prevention trial to reduce alcohol-involved accidental injury and death: overview

    Harold D. Holder;Robert F. Saltz;Joel W. Grube;Robert B. Voas

  • Alcohol Prices, Beverage Quality, and the Demand for Alcohol: Quality Substitutions and Price Elasticities

    Paul J Gruenewald;William R Ponicki;Harold D Holder;Anders Romelsjö

  • Alcoholism treatment and total health care utilization and costs. A four-year longitudinal analysis of federal employees.

    Harold D. Holder;James O. Blose

  • Efficacy and the strength of evidence of U.S. alcohol control policies.

    Toben F. Nelson;Ziming Xuan;Thomas F. Babor;Robert D. Brewer

  • Alcoholism Treatment and Potential Health Care Cost Saving

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  • A change from public to private sale of wine: results from natural experiments in Iowa and West Virginia.

    Alexander C. Wagenaar;Harold D. Holder

  • The effect of drinking and driving interventions on alcohol-involved traffic crashes within a comprehensive community trial

    Robert B. Voas;Harold D. Holder;Paul J. Gruenewald

  • Alcoholism treatment and medical care costs from Project MATCH.

    Harold D. Holder;Ron A. Cisler;Richard Longabaugh;Robert L. Stout

  • The NIfETy Method for Environmental Assessment of Neighborhood-level Indicators of Violence, Alcohol, and Other Drug Exposure

    C. D. M. Furr-Holden;C. D. M. Furr-Holden;M. J. Smart;J. L. Pokorni;N. S. Ialongo

  • Summing up: lessons from a comprehensive community prevention trial.

    Harold D. Holder;Robert F. Saltz;Joel W. Grube;Andrew J. Treno

  • Changes in alcohol consumption resulting from the elimination of retail wine monopolies: results from five U.S. states.

    Alexander C. Wagenaar;Harold D. Holder

  • Estimates of harm associated with changes in Swedish alcohol policy: results from past and present estimates

    Sven Andreasson;Harold D. Holder;Thor Norström;Esa Österberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Ingeborg Rossow
Ingeborg Rossow Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Robin Room
Robin Room La Trobe University
Sally Casswell
Sally Casswell Massey University
Ross Homel
Ross Homel Griffith University
Kathryn Graham
Kathryn Graham Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Joel W. Grube
Joel W. Grube Pacific Institute
Michael Livingston
Michael Livingston La Trobe University
Norman Giesbrecht
Norman Giesbrecht Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Raul Caetano
Raul Caetano Pacific Institute For Research and Evaluation
Andrew J. Treno
Andrew J. Treno Pacific Institute For Research and Evaluation

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