Contemporary Drug Problems articles from June 1999

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from June 1999

The public health perspective and the transformation of Norwegian alcohol policy.
June 22, 1999... The liberalization of alcohol policy During the course of the past 40 years, a gradual process of liberalization has been occurring in the area of alcohol policy in Norway, a phenomenon that has been particularly apparent in more recent...

Alcohol policy, public health and Kettil Bruun.(alcohol-control theorist)
June 22, 1999... Usually "public health" refers to mapping out relationships between people's everyday practices and their state of health or illness. In this conventional sense of the term, public health works as an apparatus that continuously gathers new data...

The forgotten origins of cannabis prohibition in California.
June 22, 1999... Although marijuana prohibition is commonly supposed to have begun with the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, cannabis had already been outlawed in many states before World War I, during the first, Progressive Era wave of anti-narcotics legislation....

A critical perspective on drug selling in the United States: can transposition of the Dutch model succeed?
June 22, 1999... Contemporary American drug policy may be said to have begun with the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan in 1981. In February 1982, Reagan moved to eliminate the $4 million TASC (Treatment Alternatives to Street Crime) program, an...

Worker drug use and workplace drug-testing programs: results from the 1994 national household survey on drug abuse.
June 22, 1999... Workplace drug-testing programs have proliferated over the past decade or so. Annual surveys conducted by the American Management Association (AMA) indicate that the proportion of its constituent companies that test employees for drugs...

Faces Along the Bar: Lore and Order in the Workingman's Saloon, 1870-1920.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Faces Along the Bar: Lore and Order in the Workingman's Saloon, 1870-1920, by Madelon Powers (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), xii + 323 pp., $25.00 (cloth). It has been said that drink is the curse of the working class, but...

Misconceiving Mothers: Legislators, Prosecutors, and the Politics of Prenatal Drug Exposure.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Misconceiving Mothers: Legislators, Prosecutors, and the Politics of Prenatal Drug Exposure, by Laura E. Gomez (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997), 207 pp., $59.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paperback). On May 26, 1998, the United States...

Pregnant Women on Drugs: Combating Stereotypes and Stigma.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Pregnant Women on Drugs: Combating Stereotypes and Stigma, by Sheigla Murphy and Marsha Rosenbaum (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1999), 204 pp., $49.00 (cloth), $19.00 (paperback). On May 26, 1998, the United States Supreme Court...