Contemporary Drug Problems articles from December 1999

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from December 1999

The entrance of beer into a persistent spirits culture.
December 22, 1999... Prohibition and legalization of alcoholic beverages have involved major changes in Icelandic alcohol policy and alcohol consumption. There is a long story behind these shifts in policy and behavior, a blend of national history and foreign...

Overlooking Terris: a speculative reconsideration of a curious spot-blindness in the history of alcohol-control science.
December 22, 1999... Over the second half of the 20th century, cirrhosis mortality in the United States followed a long rising trend and then a long declining trend, with the peak rate (14.9 deaths per 100,000 population) occurring in 1973. Per capita total alcohol...

Measuring social model in California: how much has changed?(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 1999... Publicly funded substance abuse treatment programs in California have traditionally followed a philosophy known as the "social model" approach (Borkman et al., 1998; Room et al., 1998), in which clients are immersed in the sober social network,...

Views into studies of differences in drinking habits and alcohol problems between sociodemographic groups.
December 22, 1999... In most empirical studies on alcohol consumption and alcohol problems, associations between variables on alcohol use or problems and some basic sociodemographic variables, such as sex, age, socioeconomic status or marital status groups, are...

Is "hazardous" drinking a useful concept for public health recommendations?
December 22, 1999... Public policy recommendations about the risks and benefits associated with the consumption of alcohol are an important tool for the prevention of harm. Meaningful and practical advice based on balanced information is needed to provide the...

Face-to-face versus telephone interviews: using cognitive methods to assess alcohol survey questions.(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 1999... National alcohol surveys in the United States have been used since the 1960s to obtain prevalence estimates of alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems and to assess trends. Typically these surveys have relied on face-to-face interviews...

Why do people stop their drug use? Results from a general population sample.(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 1999... A number of natural history studies have explored the factors contributing to change in addictive behaviors (reviewed in Blomqvist, 1996). For most of these studies, samples of former drug users were recruited through newspaper advertisements...

Living with Drink: Women Who Live with Problem Drinkers.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Living with Drink: Women Who Live with Problem Drinkers, edited by Richard Velleman, Alex Copello and Jenny Maslin (London: Addison Wesley Longman Limited, 1998), 228 pp., $18.00 (paper). The authors of this book are specialists in...

Northern Spirits: A Social History of Alcohol in Canada, 2d ed.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Northern Spirits: A Social History of Alcohol in Canada, 2nd edition, by Reginald G. Smart and Alan C. Ogborne (Toronto: Addiction Research Foundation/Center for Addiction and Mental Health, 1996), 262 pp., $24.95 CAD (paper only). ...