Contemporary Drug Problems articles from December 2001

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from December 2001

The history of addiction/recovery-related periodicals in America: literature as cultural/professional artifact.
December 22, 2001... The story of a profession can be told through an exploration of its history, language, values, rituals, symbols, and literature. This paper combines the expertise of an addictions librarian and an addictions treatment/recovery historian to...

Exploring patterns of remission from alcohol dependence with and without Alcoholics Anonymous in a population sample.(Review)
December 22, 2001... The Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) story describes a common pathway to change as identified in retrospective interviews with individuals who have recovered from alcohol problems (Hanninen and Koski-Jannes, 1999). This paper stems from a curiosity...

Public and private practices: addiction autobiography and its contradictions.
December 22, 2001... In Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-step programs, telling one's personal story is a vital element of successful recovery from alcoholism or addiction. Beginning with the deceptively simple phrase "My name is--and I am an alcoholic," members...

Refining rock: practical and social features of self-control among a group of college-student crack users.
December 22, 2001... During the 20th century in the United States there were numerous "moral panics" (Ben-Yehuda 1990; Goode & Ben-Yehuda 1994) in which specific drugs were sensationalized and deeply stigmatized. National panics focused on cocaine, opiates,...

Governing risk and drug use in juvenile justice settings.
December 22, 2001... There is a growing literature that examines regimes of control characteristic of neo-liberal societies (Rose, 2000). Recently Bunton (2001) usefully applied this approach in examining drug policy in the UK and other parts of Europe. This...

The drugs-guns relationship: exploring dynamic and static models.
December 22, 2001... A review of recent research in criminology reveals an ongoing debate over the nature of the relationship between drug use and criminal behavior. It appears indisputable that there is some type of association between drug use and crime (Dawkins,...

A "new institutional economics" approach to the reliability of street-level drug transactions.
December 22, 2001... The study of the operation of illicit-drug markets has been a subject of interest for a range of social scientists (e.g., Moore, 1977; Goldstein, 1989; Goldstein et al., 1989; Weisheit, 1991; McElrath et al., 1997; Sommers and Baskin, 1997;...

Alcohol advertising and youth: a focus-group analysis of what young people find appealing in alcohol advertising.(television beer commercials)
December 22, 2001... Young people have well-developed beliefs about alcohol and its effects even before they have any personal experience with drinking (Miller et al., 1990; Goldman et al., 1987; Christiansen et al., 1982, 1985). Although parents, peers, and other...

The Italian debate on alcohol advertising regulation.(television alcohol advertising)
December 22, 2001... Italian alcohol advertising is regulated by law and by voluntary codes. Unlike control in other European countries, the Italian system of control was for a long time based on self-regulation, and only recently has the EU directive (89/552)...

Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World.
December 22, 2001... by David T. Courtwright (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001), 277 pp., $25.00. World history REVIEWED BY Roland Stahl In his new book, Forces of Habit, David Courtwright describes the evolution of the use and regulation of...