Contemporary Drug Problems articles from March 2000

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from March 2000

Whither medical marijuana?
March 22, 2000... Cannabis was first admitted to Western pharmacopoeias one and a half centuries ago. In 1839 W. B. O'Shaughnessy at the Medical College of Calcutta observed its use in the indigenous treatment of various disorders and found that tincture of hemp...

Maintaining orthodoxy: the Depression-era struggle over morphine maintenance in California.
March 22, 2000... Behold now a ghost--the vagrant spectre of a dead mistake: Narcotic Clinics. Innocent in origin but vicious in effect, the mistake died young. But the evil spirit it awoke now and again roams the land, even to this day finding advocates to...

Gender issues in California's perinatal substance abuse policy.
March 22, 2000... This paper examines gender issues that arose when California created and passed a law related to substance-exposed infants in 1990. The law, explained in some detail below, intended to clarify whether prenatal alcohol and drug use was a...

Assessing ADAM's domain: past problems and future prospects.(Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Program)
March 22, 2000... Theoretical framework The federal government funds several major data-collection efforts to measure the prevalence of drug use within the United States, each of which gathers information on a specific population. The National Household...

Mundane social policies in the context of the fragmentation of welfare-state-oriented alcohol policy in Finland.
March 22, 2000... In Finland alcohol has been subject to strong state interventions. In the mid-1970s alcohol policy was tied with the social and public health policies of the welfare state. The connection gained scientific legitimation through the so-called...

Implications of structural changes in the global alcohol supply.(developing countries)
March 22, 2000... How do we understand the role of beverage alcohol in national development? The World Bank estimates that alcohol is responsible for 1.25 million deaths per year, and that a huge proportion of alcohol's excess mortality (after allowing for its...

The process of paradoxical autonomy and survival in the heroin careers of Mexican American women.
March 22, 2000... Few studies focus on female Mexican American heroin users even though their rates of heroin use are among the highest compared with those of other female groups in the United States (Desmond and Maddux, 1984; Hser, Anglin and Booth, 1987;...

"Some Days Are Harder than Hard": Welfare Reform and Women with Drug Convictions in Pennsylvania.(Review)
March 22, 2000... "Some Days Are Harder Than Hard": Welfare Reform and Women with Drug Convictions in Pennsylvania, by Amy E. Hirsch (Washington, DC: Center for Law and Social Policy, December 1999), 83 pp., free (order from www.clasp.org). One of the more...