Contemporary Drug Problems articles from December 1995

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from December 1995

Fetal rights and "crack moms": pregnant women in the war on drugs.
December 22, 1995... With the spread of crack cocaine to the inner city, the issue of prenatal drug use has assumed a place in the political spotlight. The response to this complex social problem has been primarily a punitive one: at least 167 women in 24 states have...

Ideology, pregnancy and drugs: differences between crack-cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine users.
December 22, 1995... Up until the last few years, the scientific literature concerning women's drug use concentrated almost entirely on the negative effects of cocaine and heroin use during pregnancy (Acker et al., 1983; Bean, 1986; Chasnoff et al., 1984, 1985;...

Damned if you do, damned if you don't: crack cocaine users and prenatal care.
December 22, 1995... Pregnant women who use crack cocaine are considered at high risk for perinatal complications, but many crack users do not obtain complete prenatal care. Health professionals and policy makers have little information about drug users' expectations...

Taking a hit: pregnant drug users and violence.
December 22, 1995... When we began our study of pregnancy and drug use, violence was just one of many issues we hoped to explore. However, our own priorities were quickly challenged by the women who participated in this research. Although violence was not our primary...

Crack in the cradle: social policy and reproductive rights among crack-using females.
December 22, 1995... During the 1980s a crack epidemic exploded across the United States. This epidemic negatively impacts the users, their families and social networks, and society at large. The media have bombarded the public with frightening images of crack...

Designing an agency-based drug problems needs assessment. (California)
December 22, 1995... Researchers studying drug problems often confront a gap in information between that generated by large-scale surveys on the one hand, and by clinical or institutional studies and ethnographies on the other. Surveys of general populations paint a...

The White Logic: Alcoholism and Gender in American Modernist Fiction.
December 22, 1995... This book embodies a more ambitious and more interesting project than two other recent books with which it might be compared, Tom Dardis's The Thirsty Muse: Alcohol and the American Writer (1989),(1) an essentially biographical work that lays out...

Canadian Profile: Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs.
December 22, 1995... Researchers and the general public interested in using standard statistical publications on substance use and abuse face two perennial problems: insufficient background information on the effects of various changes in statistical recording, and...