Contemporary Drug Problems articles from December 2002

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from December 2002

Alcohol, communities and researchers: theorizing the relationships in an unstable mixture.(research and community-based initiatives addressing alcohol problems)(Australia)
December 22, 2002... A growing emphasis in recent years on community-based initiatives as a strategy for reducing alcohol problems has in turn stimulated attention toward the role of research associated with community action (Casswell and Gilmore 1989; Casswell and...

Living it or learning it: attitudes and beliefs about experience and expertise in treatment for the dually diagnosed.(co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders)
December 22, 2002... Dually diagnosed individuals (i.e., individuals with co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders) present the health-care system with numerous challenges in service provision (Zweben, 2000). First, this population has higher rates of...

Ironies in the pursuit of well-being: the perspectives of low-income, substance-using women on service institutions.(health and social services)
December 22, 2002... In an era of managed health care, welfare reform, and new policy initiatives to address drug use in the U.S., there is heightened concern about low-income drug users' access to and utilization of health and social services. On the one hand,...

Alcoholics Anonymous discourse and members' resistance in a virtual community: exploring tensions between theory and practice.
December 22, 2002... Where there is power, there is resistance. Foucault, 1979:95 Alcoholics Anonymous has greatly informed the individual, social, and political landscape of the contemporary "self-help" (Riordan and Beggs, 1988; Kaskutas, 1994), or...

Alienation and alcohol use disorder: a thematic analysis of life histories from the Lundby Study.
December 22, 2002... The recently published 40-year follow-up of a subset from the Lundby Community Cohort indicated that recovery from alcohol dependence was related to changes in several basic problem areas, including work situations (Ojesjo, 2000). One major...

No protective effect of alcohol consumption on coronary heart disease (CHD) in African Americans: average volume of drinking over the life course and CHD morbidity and mortality in a U.S. national cohort.
December 22, 2002... African Americans are currently the second largest ethnic minority in the United States. Their health problems differ substantially from those of white Americans (National Center for Health Statistics, 2000). Life expectancy at birth in 1998...

Updating Howard Becker's theory of using marijuana for pleasure.
December 22, 2002... Howard S. Becker's (1953) theory of "using marijuana for pleasure" is highly regarded in the drug research field. It was one of the first to seek to understand drug use from a social-process perspective. Becker challenged the dominant theories...