Contemporary Drug Problems articles from June 2000

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from June 2000

Estimating alcohol consumption: measurement and policy issues related to legal and illegal sources of alcohol.
June 22, 2000... The following eight papers represent a very broad range of perspectives on measurement problems and explore a number of themes related to estimating how much alcohol is consumed. These perspectives vary from the issues around measuring...

Real consumption of alcohol: methods and errors of estimation.
June 22, 2000... In many countries the official alcohol statistics present quite reliable recordings of the consumption of legally bought alcohol. However, in some countries some of the consumed alcohol comes from other, partly illegal, unofficial sources, and...

The validity of political arguments in the Norwegian alcohol policy debate: associations between availability of liquor and consumption of illegal spirits.
June 22, 2000... Registered alcohol sales in Norway provide a seldom long series of annual data from which total per capita consumption has been estimated. Yet these data clearly represent an underestimate of the total consumption, and it has been estimated...

Unrecorded alcohol consumption in Finland in the 1990s.
June 22, 2000... In addition to just trying to reach maximum accuracy in alcohol consumption figures, there are several other reasons to study unrecorded alcohol consumption. First, when seriously comparing the levels of total alcohol consumption in different...

Unrecorded alcohol consumption in the Netherlands: legal, semi-legal and illegal production and trade in alcoholic beverages.
June 22, 2000... In the Netherlands, three sources of unrecorded alcohol consumption can logically be distinguished that may affect the estimates of total alcohol consumption based on sales: illegal spirits production, legal but unregistered homemade beer and...

Consumption of illegal alcohol among adolescents in Stockholm County.
June 22, 2000... Since Sweden joined the European Union in 1995, a number of changes affecting the availability of alcohol have taken place. Among other things, the quota for private import of alcoholic beverages when traveling from other member countries has...

The temporal impact of the age distribution on per adult consumption in Ontario, Canada.
June 22, 2000... Various factors can influence per adult consumption of alcohol. Most research on changes in adult consumption in the last 50 years has focused on the impact of liberalization measures. For example, considerable research has focused on changes...

Adjusting for changes in mode of administration in repeated cross-sectional surveys.
June 22, 2000... Repeated cross-sectional surveys are widely used in many countries for investigating trends in alcohol consumption (e.g., Midanik & Greenfield, 2000; Midanik & Clark, 1995; Hilton & Clark, 1987; Neve et al., 1993; Simpura et al., 1995; Schmid &...

Are estimates of the concentration of alcohol consumption affected by undercoverage? Evidence from five pooled U.S. surveys.
June 22, 2000... Characteristics of survey-based alcohol consumption distributions have been the subject of extensive study (Bruun et al., 1975; Greenfield & Rogers, 1999; Lemmens, 1993) and are often cited in reference to policy arguments. Specific policy...

Mothers and Illicit Drugs: Transcending the Myths.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Mothers and Illicit Drugs: Transcending the Myths, by Susan C. Boyd (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999), 243 pp., $50 US (cloth), $20 US (paper). Susan C. Body's Mothers and Illicit Drugs: Transcending the Myths intends to bring...