Contemporary Drug Problems articles from December 1998

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from December 1998

Qualitative research on the social model approach.(special issue on using a social substance abuse treatment model)
December 22, 1998... American substance abuse treatment and recovery programs operate in a context in which medical and mixed-model (e.g., Minnesota model/Hazelden) approaches to treatment dominate the field. The emphasis on medical/professional responses to...

Brief overview of the social model approach.(special issue on using a social substance abuse treatment model)
December 22, 1998... Social model programs (SMPs) were developed by non-medical, non-academic practitioners, most of whom were in recovery; thus there is little published academic literature on their approach. Much of the writing that does exist has been...

A "day in the life" of residents and staff at one medical model and two social model substance abuse treatment and recovery programs.(special issue on using a social substance abuse treatment model)
December 22, 1998... The three substance abuse treatment programs discussed in this special issue are based on two very different philosophies of care: the medical model and the social model. The following papers in this special edition use qualitative analytic...

Ritual practice in a social model recovery home.(treatment of women substance abusers)(special issue on using a social substance abuse treatment model)
December 22, 1998... The study of treatment generally focuses on several important issues: the goals of a treatment program, the different kinds of treatment modalities and their effectiveness for outcomes, the appropriateness of certain kinds of treatment for...

Resident self-governance in social model recovery programs.(special issue on using a social substance abuse treatment model)
December 22, 1998... This paper focuses on governance processes, especially those by the "client" residents at Mustang River and Twelve Willows, the two social model programs in the process evaluation project. The philosophy of client/participant involvement in...

"No big shots or little shots here": staffing principles and roles at medical and social model substance abuse treatment facilities.(special issue on using a social substance abuse treatment model)
December 22, 1998... Current substance abuse treatment and recovery programs in the United States operate in a context dominated by medical-professional authority (Katz, 1984; Weitz, 1996). As Starr (1982) notes, physicians and medical-model therapists have...

Experiential authority in a social model organization.(special issue on using a social substance abuse treatment model)
December 22, 1998... Social model programs for recovering substance abusers are formal, nonprofit human service agencies characterized by an Alcoholics Anonymous-style of philosophy in which experiential knowledge is the basis of authority. These programs offer an...

Temperance and Racism: John Bull, Johnny Reb, and the Good Templars.(Review)
December 22, 1998... Temperance and Racism: John Bull, Johnny Reb, and the Good Templars, by David M. Fahey (Lexington: University of Kentucky, 1996), 209 pp., illustrated, $39.95 (cloth only). David M. Fahey's Temperance and Racism describes the efforts of...

Small-Scale Production of Food and Traditional Alcoholic Beverages in Benin and Tanzania: Implications for the Promotion of Female Entrepreneurship.(Review)
December 22, 1998... Small-Scale Production of Food and Traditional Alcoholic Beverages in Benin and Tanzania: Implications for the Promotion of Female Entrepreneurship, by Johanna Maula (Helsinki: The Finnish Foundation for Alcohol Studies, 1997), 295 pp., $35.00...