Contemporary Drug Problems articles from December 1993

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from December 1993

Criminal justice and drug treatment systems linkage: federal promotion of interagency collaboration in the 1970s.
December 22, 1993... AUTHORS' NOTE: Support for this article was provided by grant 91-IJ-CX-K009 from the National Institute of Justice; Dr. Anglin is also supported by NIDA Research Scientist Development Award DA00146. Points of view in this article are those of...

Why clients drop out of treatment: ethnographic perspectives on treatment attrition among homeless male "crack" cocaine users.
December 22, 1993... One of the few and most consistent predictors of successful outcome in substance abuse treatment research has been length of stay in treatment (Baekland & Lundwall, 1975; De Leon, 1984; Hubbard, 1991; Joe, Simpson, & Hubbard, 1991; McLellan,...

Using evaluation resources in a community action project: formative evaluation of public health input into the implementation of the New Zealand Sale of Liquor Act.
December 22, 1993... Understanding and evaluating community action as a potentially significant strategy in working toward the goal of reducing alcohol-related problems has been of growing interest in the international alcohol research field (Room, 1990; Giesbrecht...

The beginnings of Galician and Austrian alcohol policy: a common discourse on dependence.
December 22, 1993... 1. "The law of July 19th of 1877, by which measures for the prevention of inebriety are taken. Effective for the kingdoms of Galicia and Lodomeria, inclusive of the Grand Duchy Cracov and the Duchy Bukowina." In October 1876 an initial...

The relationship between ethnicity, social class, alcohol use, and public opinion regarding alcohol control policies. (Marin County, California)
December 22, 1993... The first author is an assistant professor in the Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota (1300 South Second St., #300, Minneapolis, MN 55454-1015); Greenfield and Graves are on the staff of the Alcohol...

Contesting culture: alcohol-related identity movements in contemporary African-American communities.
December 22, 1993... Rap is nothing new. . . Rap's forebears stretch back through disco, street funk, radio DJs, Bo Diddley, the bebop singers, Cab Calloway, Pigmeat Markam, the tap dancers and comics, The Last Poets, Gil Scott-Heron, Muhammad Ali, acapella [sic]...

The "story" of Bill W: ideology, culture, and the discovery of the modern American alcoholic.
December 22, 1993... To inaugurate the last decade of the 20th century, Life magazine published a special issue devoted to honoring the 100 most important Americans of the century.(1) Among the luminaries chosen appeared the name of William Griffith Wilson, or...

Desire and Craving: A Cultural Theory of Alcoholism.
December 22, 1993... By Pertti Alasuutari (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992), 180 pp., $44.50 cloth, $14.95 paper. Work is the curse of the drinking ma;l This short book (180 pages of text plus notes, bibliography, and index) is...