Articles on Blackouts

AAA. Blackout Research Abstracts (alphabetical)

Research abstracts related to alcohol blackouts / amnesia. Listed alphabetically.

AAA. Blackout Research Articles (chronological)

Research abstracts related to alcohol blackouts / amnesia. Listed chronologically.

Alcohol Toxicology for Prosecutors (American Prosecutors Research Institute)

A primer on alcohol toxicology.

Blackout as Criminal Defense or Mitigation

A critique of utilizing alcohol blackout / amnesia as a defense or for mitigation.

Blackout: Problems with Memory and Suggestibility (Nash, 2011)

The dangers of trying to reconstruct memories from a blackout event.

Blackout: Problems with Memory and Suggestibility (Oorsouw, 2015)

An important study on alcohol’s impact on memory and suggestibility. Oorsouw, 2015

Blackout: Problems with Memory and Suggestibility (Oorsouw, 2019)

An important study on alcohol’s impact on memory and suggestibility.

Drugs that Potentiate Alcohol

National Institute of Health’s publication describing over-the-counter and prescribed medications that potentiate alcohol.

Drugs that Potentiate Alcohol (Part 2 – National Institute of Health)

An important publication from the National Institute of Health on over-the-counter and prescribed medications that potentiate alcohol.

Dubowski Scale (1980)

The 1980 article on the Dubowski Scale.

Gender Differences in Alcohol Related Use and Harms

Gender differences in alcohol use and effects.

Intoxicated Witnesses and Suspects: An Archival Analysis

Alcohol’s impact on eyewitness reporting to police.

Intoxication During Police Interrogation

The problems of interrogating a suspect while s/he is intoxicated.

Mellanby Effect

A systematic review of the evidence for acute tolerance to alcohol – the “Mellanby effect”

Memory Bias in Binge Drinking Women

A recent article describing emotional memory bias in binge drinking women.

Prosecuting Alcohol-Facilitated Sexual Assault (American Prosecutors Research Institute)

A guide for prosecuting cases involving sexual assault and alcohol.

Research on Date Rape Drugs

An older review of research on “date rape” drugs.

Review of Current Research on Blackout (2016)

An update on research findings regarding alcohol blackout / amnesia (as of 2016).

Rohypnol

An overview of the “date rape” drug.

Rohypnol: Date Rape Drug (part 1)

An overview of rohypnol.

Rohypnol: Date Rape Drug (part 2)

Part 2 of Rohypnol.

Sleep Disruption and Memory Difficulties

Sleep disruption and poor memory.

What Happened? Alcohol, Memory, and the Brain

The seminal publication by Dr. Aaron White.

Widmark Calculator

How to do a Widmark calculation.