Contemporary Drug Problems articles from March 1997

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from March 1997

Promoting public health in liquor licensing: perceptions of the role of alcohol community workers.
March 22, 1997... The impact of liquor licensing laws on the availability of alcohol has been recognized as an important factor in the level of consumption and alcohol-related problems through the mechanisms of control on hours and days of sale (Smith, 1987,...

Civic participation by 18- to 20-year-olds as a predictor of support for alcohol control policies: the Communities Mobilizing for Change project.
March 22, 1997... Evidence is accumulating that federal, state, and local alcohol control policies effectively reduce alcohol consumption and subsequent alcohol-related problems among young adults (Toomey et al., 1993; Wagenaar & Farrell, 1989; Ritson, 1994;...

Many voices: Finnish students' criteria for evaluating alcohol and drug educational videos.
March 22, 1997... Since the 1980s, videos and other audio-visual materials have been popular in alcohol and drug prevention programs targeting young people. The video format has provided an opportunity to combine the attractiveness of (initially) novel technology...

A qualitative investigation of responses to televised alcohol advertisements. (New Zealand)
March 22, 1997... February 1992 saw the introduction of new rules governing alcohol advertising in New Zealand. Prior to this date there had been limited alcohol advertising on television, with only sponsorship and corporate advertising permitted (Casswell et al.,...

A qualitative investigation of the responses of in-treatment and recovering heavy drinkers to alcohol advertising on New Zealand television.
March 22, 1997... The debate over the influence of alcohol advertising on people's drinking behavior and attitudes is one that many countries have experienced as they decide how and to what degree alcohol advertising should be regulated. New Zealand policy makers...

Women healing from alcoholism: a qualitative study.
March 22, 1997... High relapse rates in treated alcoholics and a lack of adequate research studies with recovering alcoholics suggest we need to know much more about the actual recovery process from alcoholism with both males and females (Leukefeld & Tims, 1989;...

Workplace harassment and the self-medication of distress: a conceptual model and case illustrations.
March 22, 1997... Research addressing the social causation of alcohol abuse has alluded to the tension-management or self-medication function of alcohol consumption. The use of alcohol (as well as other substances) can constitute a means to escape from, avoid, or...

Alcoholics Anonymous as a Mutual-Help Movement: A Study in Eight Societies.
March 22, 1997... By Klaus Makela et al. (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996), 297 pp. plus personal name and subject indices, cloth $46.00, paper $14.95. Many, loud and long are the complaints of those who peruse the scholarly literature on...

The Culture of Recovery: Making Sense of the Self-Help Movement in Women's Lives.
March 22, 1997... by Elayne Rapping (Boston: Beacon Press, 1996), 256 pp., $24.00, cloth only. The 12-step recovery movement has permeated 1990s American culture. This is both a reflection of and a contradictory, confusing development in the enduring struggle...