Contemporary Drug Problems articles from June 2002

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from June 2002

Between culture and nature: intoxication in cultural studies of alcohol and drug use.
June 22, 2002... Theoretical attempts to formulate cultural theories of drinking and drug use have traditionally stemmed from norm theory or functionalism. These tend to reduce drinking and drug practices to intoxication alone or to neglect intoxication...

Intoxication and rite of passage to adulthood in Norway.
June 22, 2002... This article considers the use of alcohol in a special rite of passage called "russefeiring"--perhaps best translated as a "coming of age" celebration--among young people in Norway, Traditionally a rite of passage, such as confirmation in...

Young people in a wet culture: functions and patterns of drinking.(Italy)
June 22, 2002... In this paper we take into consideration data from three qualitative research studies on young people and alcohol carried out in Italy from 1997 to 1999. We analyze these data searching for meanings and functions of alcohol consumption and...

"Doing gender" - "doing drugs": conceptualizing the gendering of drugs cultures. (United Kingdom)
June 22, 2002... Men's illicit drug use has been increasing rapidly in the 1990s in the UK and elsewhere in the developed world. Women's illicit drug use has been increasing even more rapidly. If we look at lifetime prevalence figures for the UK from...

The meaning and gendered culture of getting high: gang girls and drug use issues.
June 22, 2002... Official estimates of the number of youths involved in gangs have increased dramatically over the past decade. Currently, according to the latest National Youth Gang Survey, an estimated 28,700 youth gangs and 780,200 gang members exist in the...

The use of alcohol and cannabis in non-professional rock bands in Finland.
June 22, 2002... Rock stars have a reputation as heavy users of legal and illegal drugs, reported in several biographies (e.g., Coleman 1986; Friedman 1992; Hopkins & Sugerman 1980; Norman 1984; see also Shapiro 1988), and the same myth of sex `n' drugs `n'...

Re-imagining being "straight" in straight edge.(punk rock subculture that emphasizes abstention from drugs, smoking, and alcohol)
June 22, 2002... In the early 1980s the term straight edge (also written sXe) was coined to describe a youth subculture within the punk rock scene, a subculture that chose a lifestyle that abstained from alcohol, tobacco, and drugs as well as promiscuous sex....