Contemporary Drug Problems articles from June 1997

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from June 1997

"Crack" versus "rock" cocaine: the importance of local nomenclature in drug research and education. (data from Chicago, Illinois and Anchorage, Alaska)
June 22, 1997... Dr. Ouellet is on the staff of the Community Outreach Intervention Projects (M/C 922) in the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago (Epi/Bio, Room 522, 2121 West Taylor St., Chicago 60612-7260). The other authors are...

The adulteration of illicit drugs with dangerous substances - the discovery of a "myth."
June 22, 1997... The notion that illicit street drugs, such as heroin, are routinely adulterated or diluted with dangerous substances is a common one. Elsewhere (Coomber, 1997a, 1997b) I have shown that it is in fact a common view of those involved in the...

The etiquette of needlesharing. (Australia)
June 22, 1997... The prevalence of hepatitis- and HIV-related risk-taking behavior, including the sharing of injecting equipment by injecting drug users (IDUs), has declined markedly in Australia over the last decade. This decrease reflects widespread...

Heroin addiction careers: downward spiral or controlled descent? (The Hague, Netherlands)
June 22, 1997... Anne Eland-Goossensen is a research fellow at the Addiction Research Institute (IVO, Essenlaan 4, 3062 NM Rotterdam, The Netherlands). Liesbeth Vollemans is a community field worker at the IVO. Tony Hak is a lecturer in medical sociology at the...

Methods of smoking crack as a potential risk factor for HIV infection: crack smokers' perceptions and behavior. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
June 22, 1997... Research has demonstrated important linkages between crack smoking and HIV/AIDS, especially through increased risk of sexual transmission. Among HIV prevention interventionists and researchers there has been considerable speculation regarding...

Prevalence of frequent cocaine use in urban poverty areas.
June 22, 1997... Many authors have noted that in national survey data cocaine use is more or less equally prevalent in all socioeconomic strata (Adams and Gfroerer 1991, Anthony 1992, Flewelling et al. 1992, O'Malley et al. 1991, Parker 1995, Robins and...

The naturalization of beer and gin in early modern England.
June 22, 1997... A scientist in the Social Evaluation and Research Department of the Addiction Research Foundation (33 Russell St., Toronto, Ont. M5S 2S1, Canada), Dr. Warner has published on the history of concepts about alcohol problems. She is currently...

Drugs and Narcotics in History.
June 22, 1997... The past decade has witnessed the global expansion of the "War on Drugs," the rapid escalation of government antismoking campaigns in the United States, and the proliferation of prescription medications such as Prozac and Ritalin. The same...

From Mr. Sin to Mr. Big: A History of Australian Drug Laws.
June 22, 1997... From Mr. Sin to Mr. Big reminds one of a good opera -- well sung, well written and orchestrated, full of deceit and misery, and a little depressing through most of it. I say depressing because Professor Manderson's history of Australian drug...