Alcohol Use and Problems at the Event Level: Theory, Methods, and Intervention

This chapter focuses on alcohol use and related problems at the event level. The chapter examines historical and current theoretical and methodological issues related to understanding drinking events. The chapter postulates drinking events as ecological systems where individual, social, and environmental factors interact in complex and dynamic ways to influence drinking and related problems. Current interventions related to preventing alcohol-related problems at the event level are discussed. The promise of developing real-time interventions designed to prevent in situ alcohol-related problems are also discussed. Finally, the chapter addresses potential future directions for research relating to drinking at the event level.