Contemporary Drug Problems articles from June 1994

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from June 1994

Variations in drinking norms by subculture and demography.
June 22, 1994... Paul Roman (1991) said that "for a world that must live with a multiplicity of psychoactive substances that will always carry some degree of desirability, there are lessons to be learned from drinking behaviors." My aim is to introduce to you...

A review of current guidelines on moderate drinking for individual consumers.
June 22, 1994... A consideration of safe or responsible(1) levels of alcohol consumption is bound to be controversial. Not only is the determination of the effect of alcohol on various organs complex (Anderson et al., 1992), let alone its causal relationship to...

Individual changes in drinking and aggregate patterns.
June 22, 1994... This is what the best available evidence indicates: Drinking is good for you. Those of us who do not want to die should take at least two daily drinks and maybe up to four drinks daily. The beneficial effects of drinking showing up in...

Drinking for health: balancing individual risk and public health hazards.
June 22, 1994... ! ! ! BEGIN AUTH-ABST Paul H. Lemmens, a psychologist, is a research fellow at the University of Limburg (Dept. Medical Sociology, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, the Netherlands). His main research interest is the social and medical...

Implications of potential health benefits of moderate drinking for specific elements of alcohol policy: towards a harm-reduction approach for alcohol.
June 22, 1994... A considerable body of evidence regarding the health effects of moderate drinking has been presented at this symposium. On balance it would appear that persons who consume small amounts of alcohol on a regular basis tend to have lower morbidity...

Moderate drinking and population-based alcohol policy.
June 22, 1994... The possibility of delayed mortality as a consequence of alcohol consumption has seized many imaginations. This is not the first international conference to draw together eminent persons to discuss the issue (Hawks, 1992a), and the media have...

The "temperance mentality": a survey of students at a Canadian university. (Simon Fraser University) (British Columbia)
June 22, 1994... Restrictive contemporary policies concerning alcohol and other drugs have fueled speculation that the United States and Canada have entered a "new temperance era" (e.g., Ely, 1984; Mitchell, 1992) or a period of "prohibitionism" (Lichtman, 1980;...

Polish culture: dry or wet?
June 22, 1994... 1. The problem In 1990 Harry G. Levine wrote: Non-Protestant European cultures, on the other hand, even those with high levels of spirit consumption like Poland or Russia, have never supported large, ongoing temperance movements and...

The Reduction of Drug-Related Harm.
June 22, 1994... The reduction of drug-related harm has recently emerged as a popular theme in the drug field. Interest in this new theme cumulated into the first international conference on harm reduction in Liverpool in 1990, followed by conferences in...

Psychoactive Drugs and Harm Reduction: From Faith to Science.
June 22, 1994... The reduction of drug-related harm has recently emerged as a popular theme in the drug field. Interest in this new theme cumulated into the first international conference on harm reduction in Liverpool in 1990, followed by conferences in...

Street Addicts in the Political Economy.
June 22, 1994... Street Addicts in the Political Economy, Alisse Waterston's study of the lives of heroin addicts and polydrug users on the Lower East Side of New York City, breaks new ground in drug studies in two interesting ways. To my knowledge this is the...

Shooting Dope: Career Patterns of Hard-Core Heroin Users.
June 22, 1994... Shooting Dope and Tragic Magic are complementary books. One is a scholarly endeavor to distill the life experiences of heroin addicts within a social analytic framework. The other is the story of just such an addict, told in his own words to a...

Tragic Magic: The Life and Crimes of a Heroin Addict.
June 22, 1994... Shooting Dope and Tragic Magic are complementary books. One is a scholarly endeavor to distill the life experiences of heroin addicts within a social analytic framework. The other is the story of just such an addict, told in his own words to a...