Contemporary Drug Problems articles from June 1996

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from June 1996

Visualizing America's drug problems: an ethnographic content analysis of illegal drug stories on the nightly news.
June 22, 1996... In 1986 President Ronald Reagan declared a national "War on Drugs." Three years later, President George Bush renewed the call to arms. The national media gave the War on Drugs their official blessing. On television, in news magazines and in...

Old and in the way: widows, witches, and spontaneous combustion in the age of reason.
June 22, 1996... Between 1663 and 1782, no fewer than 13 women are supposed to have burst into flames after having been exposed to massive quantities of distilled spirits. Nobody ever saw any of the women burn, and only once did fire seriously damage the bed or...

The varied meanings of drinking and intoxication - a review.
June 22, 1996... Drinking and becoming intoxicated are highly symbolic activities that tend to say something about the people drinking and the activities in which they are involved. This point has been widely accepted, and according to Gusfield, the nature of...

Distinguishing causes and correlates of drinking and driving.
June 22, 1996... For many social problems it is extremely difficult to determine cause-effect relationships with any degree of certainty. Drinking and driving is one such social problem where causes are difficult to delineate. A major distinction exists between...

The happy hour experiment in North America.
June 22, 1996... Although among the smaller minutiae of alcohol controls, those for happy hours are controversial in North America. At the center of the controversy is the question of whether happy hours increase levels of drinking and drinking-related problems....

The end of U.S. prohibition: a case study of Mississippi.
June 22, 1996... Natural experiments involving changes in alcoholic beverage availability are valuable opportunities to examine the corresponding associated changes in alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems. Usually one is able to examine the...

Demonstration of a mixed social/medical model detoxification program for homeless alcohol abusers.
June 22, 1996... Typically, insurance carriers and the federal government (through Medicare and Medicaid) have paid for alcohol detoxification only in hospital settings. This approach, known as the medical model or the clinical model, controls detoxification...

Alcohol Policy and the Public Good.
June 22, 1996... by Griffith Edwards et al. (Oxford, New York and Tokyo: Oxford University Press, 1994), 226 pp., $26.95 (paper only). REVIEWED BY Professor Dan Beauchamp, School of Public Health, State University of New York, Albany, NY. In a...

Alcohol Policy and the Public Good.
June 22, 1996... by Griffith Edwards et al. (Oxford, New York and Tokyo: Oxford University Press, 1994), 226 pp., $26.95 (paper only). REVIEWED BY James F. Mosher, J.D., Research Fellow, Marin Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Other Drug Problems,...

Through Sunshine and Shadow: The Women's Christian Temperance Union, Evangelicalism, and Reform in Ontario, 1874-1930.
June 22, 1996... by Sharon Anne Cook (Montreal: McGill University-Queen's University Press, 1995), 281 pp., illustrated, $39.95 Canadian (cloth only). REVIEWED BY Ian Tyrrell, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Historical writing on Canadian...