Alcohol and Implicit Process in Sexual Risk Behavior in MSM

Exclusion Criteria

• •a) under the age of 21 or b) do not have a government issued ID or c) are not able to provide medical records or other official documents with a birthdate (e.g., birth certificate), accompanied by a photo ID
• •Scores ≥ 5 on the Brief Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (Brief MAST; Pokorny, Miller, \& Kaplan, 1972)
• •Any ASSIST substance involvement score of ≥ 27 (National Institute on Drug Abuse; http://www.drugabuse.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/nmassist.pdf)
• •Score ≥ 15 on the Patient Health Questionnaire-8 (PHQ-8; Kroenke et al., 2009)
• •4 subscales of the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI; Derogatis \& Melisaratos, 1979), Somatization, Obsession-compulsion, Paranoid ideation, and Psychoticism will be administered; Individuals experiencing severe psychological health symptoms (score \> 2 on any item) will be further questioned by a research assistant in order to determine if there is psychiatric distress or problems present
• •Report current medications or current medical problems (e.g., liver disorders, heart disease, HIV+ serostatus) that contraindicate alcohol use using the Medical Condition Questionnaire; Participants who confirm that they are using (i.e., have used in the past week) any prescribed drugs for which alcohol use is contraindicated (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/drug\_Aa.html) will be excluded. Participants also currently regularly taking (i.e., past 24 hours) any herbals and vitamins, including sleep aids (chamomile) and herbal preparations for anxiety and depression (Kava Kava or St. John's Wort) that contraindicate alcohol use will be excluded
• •Persons with cognitive and or psychomotor deficits will be excluded from the experiment (based on RA and PI determination)
• •Endorse currently being in a committed, exclusive monogamous relationship
• •Report treatment for emotional or substance use disorders (defined by current treatment or treatment in the past 3 months) or recent history of significant alcohol problems as indicated by inpatient/outpatient alcohol treatment or alcohol self-help group attendance (e.g., AA) within the past 3 years.