Contemporary Drug Problems articles from December 2006

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from December 2006

Alcohol and Islam: an overview.
December 22, 2006... Which is the worst deed: to kill a man, to rape a woman, or to get drunk? Drunkenness is the worst because the drunkard will commit both rape and murder. --Islamic saying (Aziz Omrane, personal communication, Tunis 1992)...

Differences in predictors of alcohol-related aggression and non-alcohol-related violent perpetration: an exploratory analysis in a sample of young adult drinkers.
December 22, 2006... Violence among young people is an important public health problem (Dahlberg 1998; Simon, Mercy & Perkins 2001) and therefore it is imperative that researchers gain a better understanding of factors that explain its occurrence. However, studies...

Social processes underlying acculturation: a study of drinking behavior among immigrant Latinos in the Northeast United States.
December 22, 2006... Acculturation refers to the cultural and psychological processes and outcomes that result from prolonged intercultural contact between two culturally distinct groups (Berry 1997). As a framework to identify and understand patterns in drug and...

The interplay between perceived self-choice and reported informal, formal and legal pressures in treatment entry.(Sweden)
December 22, 2006... "Proliferation of social control tactics to facilitate addiction treatment is a world-wide social experiment without a compelling evidence base on its utility." (Wild, 2006:46) This study examines clients' perceived self-choice in...

Why not treatment? Untreated substance abusers' accounts of their lifestyles and efforts to change. (Sweden)
December 22, 2006... It goes without saying that the preferences, wishes, beliefs, and attitudes of people that consume licit and illicit substances influence their acts. The notion that addicts are slaves to substances who only and at any cost try to satisfy their...

Speaking addictions: substitution, metaphor and authenticity in newspaper representations of methadone treatment.
December 22, 2006... "As figure, metaphor constitutes a displacement and an extension of the meaning of words; its explanation is grounded in a theory of substitution." --RICOEUR, 1978 Press coverage of addiction tends to be prolific if not always...