Contemporary Drug Problems articles from March 1999

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from March 1999

A tax paradise in the making? Alcohol regulations in the Aland Islands.
March 22, 1999... When the European Union decided to end tax-free sales within the EU, it was considered such a serious threat to the welfare of the Aland Islands that its continuation was set as a precondition for a membership in the EU. To enable the...

The impact of credit and debit cards in liquor stores on opinions and consumption patterns.
March 22, 1999... Credit card users, debit card users, and other drinkers were compared in terms of demographic characteristics, opinions, financial problems, and alcohol consumption patterns before and after the introduction of credit and debit cards at...

Positional role changes and drinking patterns: results of a longitudinal study.
March 22, 1999... This study of heavily drinking males in the general population assesses the effect of positional role changes on drinking behaviors. The data are derived from a longitudinal study over a three-year period (1992-1995) of a representative sample...

Lesbian social drinking: the role of alcohol in growing up and living as lesbian.
March 22, 1999... Lesbians reportedly use alcohol more frequently and in greater quantities than heterosexuals, conceivably placing them at greater risk for alcohol-related problems. Past theorists have suggested psychosocial variables such as stress or the...

Keep coming back! Narcotics Anonymous narrative and recovering-addict identity.
March 22, 1999... The following study is a qualitative analysis of the 12-step fellowship Narcotics Anonymous. Over a two-year period, ethnographic data were collected from over 150 NA meetings and codified using the principles of the research methodology...

Drugs at school: how the school community addresses the problem within an interactional framework.
March 22, 1999... In autumn 1996, articles appeared in the Finnish newspapers about a vocational school where the sale and use of drugs were discovered; this was the beginning of the social construction of the school drug problem. This paper describes one part...

The Treatment of Drinking Problems: A Guide for the Helping Professions.(Review)
March 22, 1999... The Treatment of Drinking Problems: A Guide for the Helping Professions, by Griffith Edwards, E. Jane Marshall and Christopher C. Cook (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), third edition, 368 pp., $85 cloth, $39.95 paper). I. ...

Coca, Cocaine, and the Bolivian Reality.
March 22, 1999... Coca, Cocaine, and the Bolivian Reality, edited by Madeline Barbara Leons and Harry Sanabria (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997), xii+310 pp., $19.95 (paper). Everyone agrees that a multidisciplinary approach is needed if we...