Contemporary Drug Problems articles from March 1996

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from March 1996

Belief in medicine and belief in God: self-help of alcoholics and AA in Austria.(Addiction Mutual Self-Help Movements in a Comparative Perspective)
March 22, 1996... This paper concerns the history and structure of the so-called self-help groups of alcoholics in Austria. These self-help groups have roots other than AA. And they not only have other roots--their structure and their program still remain more or...

The development of the Alcoholic Treatment Club system in Italy: fifteen years of experience.(Addiction Mutual Self-Help Movements in a Comparative Perspective)
March 22, 1996... AUTHORS' NOTE: This paper was supported by a grant from CNR (91002.48.PF41). The first Alcoholic Treatment Club (CAT) was established in Italy in 1979, following the experience of the Zagreb School of Alcohol Studies (Croatia). From the...

Alcoholics Anonymous and the alcohol treatment system in Italy.(Addiction Mutual Self-Help Movements in a Comparative Perspective)
March 22, 1996... AUTHORS' NOTE: We thank AA and Al-Anon General Services in Italy for their information and support. We are grateful to AA members for their cooperation in this study. Thanks also to Dr. Valentino Patussi for supplyingfigures about CATs. 1....

Different stories: self-help groups for alcoholics and illicit drug users in Germany.(Addiction Mutual Self-Help Movements in a Comparative Perspective)
March 22, 1996... AUTHOR'S NOTE: I want to thank Terrie A. Couch and Harry Levine for discussion and input on earlier drafts. I also thank the German AA Central Office representative, who shared his knowledge about internal AA developments with me in a lengthy...

The development of AA in a country with an existing outpatient layperson help system: the case of German-speaking Switzerland. (Alcoholics Anonymous)(Addiction Mutual Self-Help Movements in a Comparative Perspective)
March 22, 1996... AUTHOR'S NOTE: This work was made possible by a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (Ref. Number: 32-28658.90). I would like to thank the Blue Cross for providing information on its movement as well as the many anonymous alcoholics...

Professional opinions and practices concerning Alcoholics Anonymous: a review of the literature and a research agenda.(Addiction Mutual Self-Help Movements in a Comparative Perspective)
March 22, 1996... AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is a revision of a paper presented at a conference on Addiction Self-help and Mutual Aid, held by the Kettil Bruun Society, Toronto, September 1994. The views expressed in this paper are those of the author and do not...

Lesbians' participation in Alcoholics Anonymous: experiences of social, personal, and political tensions.(Addiction Mutual Self-Help Movements in a Comparative Perspective)
March 22, 1996... AUTHOR'S NOTE: This research was funded by a National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Institute of Nursing Research, NIH #F31 NR06322. The report was completed while the author was a postdoctoral fellow...

A model of AA utilization by persons with a dual diagnosis (the co-occurrence of alcoholism and severe mental illness).(Addiction Mutual Self-Help Movements in a Comparative Perspective)
March 22, 1996... AUTHORS' NOTE: The authors wish to thank Nancy K. Janz for her insightful comments on the health beliefs model. This research was supported by USPHS grant MH 46399from the National Institute of Mental Health. About half of the persons with a...

In Love with Daylight: A Memoir of Recovery.
March 22, 1996... by Wilfred Sheed (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), 252 pp., no index, $23.00 U.S., $31.00 Canadian (cloth only). REVIEWED BY Ernest Kurtz, 1235 Bardstown Trail, Ann Arbor, Michigan. The history of literary figures writing of addiction...

De-Americanizing Drug Policy: The Search for Alternatives for Failed Repression.
March 22, 1996... edited by Lorenz Bollinger (Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Peter Lang GmbH, 1994), 263 pp., DM 69.00. REVIEWED BY David F. Duncan, Dr. P.H., C.A.S., Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Since...