Mutual-aid support groups play a vital role in substance abuse treatment in the United States. A national survey of mutual-aid support groups for addiction was conducted to identify key differences between participants in recovery groups. Survey data indicate that active involvement in support groups significantly improves one's chances of remaining clean and sober, regardless of the group in w...

HiNRICHSEN, J. 1., M. KATAHN AND R. W. LEVENSON. Alcoho/-illdllced slale·dl'pelldent learning ill Iloll-a/coholics. PHARMAC BIOCHEM. BEHAV. 2(3) 293-296,1974. -The generality of the dissociative effects of a high dosage (lAO g/kg.) of rapidly ingested ethyl alcohol in non-alcoholic human subjects was examined. Verbal memory was found to be more susceptible to dissociation than either motor-skil...

Adaptationism maintains that natural selection is the principal factor causing evolutionary change. This statement is in need of qualification. Indeed, Peter Godfrey-Smith finds several possible usages of the term adaptationism. Steven Orzack and Elliott Sober argue that for adaptationism to be an interesting research program it has to be given in a reasonably strong form. Such a reasonably str...

Whitman argues that group selection is consistent with methodological individualism. He begins by defining a weak form of methodological individualism in which agents are not necessarily self-interested or rational and shows that this form of is consistent with Sober and Wilson’s model of group selection. However, Sober and Wilson’s group selection is also consistent with a methodological indiv...

The Alcohol Language Corpus (ALC) is the first publicly available speech corpus comprising intoxicated and sober speech of 162 female and male German speakers. Recordings are done in the automotive environment to allow for the development of automatic alcohol detection and to ensure a consistent acoustic environment for the alcoholized and the sober recording. The recorded speech covers a varie...

In this paper, we investigate multiple approaches for automatically detecting intoxicated speakers given samples of their speech. Intoxicated speech in a given language can be viewed simply as a different accent of this language; therefore we adopt our recent approach to dialect and accent recognition to detect intoxication. The system models phonetic structural differences across sober and int...

The Alcohol Language Corpus (ALC) is the first publicly available speech corpus comprising intoxicated and sober speech of 162 female and male German speakers. Recordings are done in the automotive environment to allow for the development of automatic alcohol detection and to ensure a consistent acoustic environment for the alcoholized and the sober recording. The recorded speech covers a varie...

It is a fact of classical mathematics that the adjunction O a Pt : Loc→ Sp is not an equivalence which, however, boils down to an equivalence between sober spaces and spatial locales. However, classically, most of the usual spaces are sober as e.g. all Hausdorff spaces and all algebraic domains. But there are notable examples of non-spatial locales which do not have any points as e.g. the measu...