{"id":107586,"date":"2015-12-22T11:43:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T16:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&#038;p=107586"},"modified":"2015-12-22T12:33:37","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T17:33:37","slug":"friends-are-reliable-sources-for-drinking-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2015\/12\/friends-are-reliable-sources-for-drinking-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends are Unreliable Sources for Drinking Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"media-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/michael-fendrich.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-107587 alignleft img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/michael-fendrich-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"michael fendrich\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 275px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 275\/300;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"media-heading\">Dr. Michael Fendrich&#8217;s research was featured in the inaugural issue of the <strong><em>UConn Health Journal<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"media-heading\">In recent years, researchers have turned to friends of people in alcohol studies to verify what the subjects report about their drinking habits. People in the same social situations are sought out, in part, because of the inherent impairment caused by alcohol. But according to a UConn study published in <em>Addictive Behaviors<\/em>, friends don\u2019t seem to provide any new information. In fact, they typically underreport what their acquaintances consume. The finding supports the so-called \u201cprotective effect\u201d of friends described in other research. A growing availability of other evidence \u2013 hair and fingernail samples, for example \u2013 may provide better strategy for corroborating the amount of alcohol study subjects consume, says author Michael Fendrich, associate dean of the School of Social Work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"media-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/healthjournal.uconn.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">UConn Health Journal<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"media-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ssw.uconn.edu\/faculty-listing\/michael-fendrich-phd\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Fendrich Faculty Profile<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"media-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ssw.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2015\/12\/The-utility-of-collateral-student-drinking-reports-Fendrich.pdf\">The utility of collateral student drinking reports\u00a0<\/a>(PDF of article)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Michael Fendrich&#8217;s research was featured in the inaugural issue of the UConn Health Journal In recent years, researchers have turned to friends of people in alcohol studies to verify what the subjects report about their drinking habits. People in the same social situations are sought out, in part, because of the inherent impairment caused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":107587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1870],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1869],"class_list":["post-107586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ssw"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 05:31:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/107587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107586"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=107586"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=107586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}