Contemporary Drug Problems articles from June 2005

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from June 2005

Patterns of alcohol consumption among older persons in Botswana.
June 22, 2005... In order to develop strategies to improve the health status of older persons and enhance their potential as providers of traditional and cultural knowledge and as caregivers, more information is needed about older persons' health and health...

Toward a comparative analysis of state alcohol-control systems: the triadic model.
June 22, 2005... Contemporary theorizing on the development of alcohol-control systems has made great advances over both previous individual case studies and early cross-national comparisons of various attempts at achieving an equitable level of alcohol control...

The OxyContin epidemic and crime panic in rural Kentucky.
June 22, 2005... OxyContin (trade name), an oxycodone drug, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1995 and first marketed in 1996 by Purdue Pharma of Stamford, Connecticut (U.S.A.). Among the most powerful analgesics currently manufactured,...

The Australian National Council on Drugs (ANCD) and governance in the Australian drug policy arena.
June 22, 2005... For a range of historical, political and constitutional reasons, drug policy in Australia has been strategically organized at a national level only since 1986. The National Campaign Against Drug Abuse (NCADA), launched in 1986 by the Hawke...

"It might be a scummy-arsed drug but it's a sick buzz": chroming and pleasure.(Australia)
June 22, 2005... "Chroming" is the term used to describe inhalant use (IU) in Australia. It refers most specifically to inhalation of fumes from aerosol spray paints--a practice that appears to be currently the preferred form of IU for most urban Australians...

Syringe acquisition, peer exchange and HIV risk.(Canada)
June 22, 2005... Injection drug users (IDUs) who have difficulty acquiring sterile syringes are 3.5 times more likely to inject with a used syringe than other IDUs (Wood et al., 2002). While syringe exchange programs (SEPs) are designed to increase access to...