Contemporary Drug Problems articles from March 2001

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from March 2001

Pouring beer on troubled waters: alcohol and violence in the Papua New Guinea Highlands during the 1980s.
March 22, 2001... Papua New Guinea (PNG) is far and away the largest country in the Pacific Islands, with a population of over 4 million at the millennial turn. Although they are linguistically and culturally diverse, PNG's people can nonetheless be grouped for...

The inflammable alcohol issue: alcohol policy argumentation in the programs of political parties in Finland, Norway and Sweden from the 1960s to the 1990s.
March 22, 2001... Alcohol policy has been an exceptionally political issue in the Nordic countries ever since the temperance ideology came to Northern Europe from England and North America in the mid-19th century. In Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland, where...

Adolescent drinking and alcohol policy.
March 22, 2001... National surveys of adolescents consistently show that alcohol is the drug of choice among young people in most countries (e.g., CCSA/CAMH, 1999; Hibell et al., 1997; Johnston, O'Malley & Bachman, 2000). For example, 1999 figures from the...

Socially obligatory drinking: a sociological analysis of norms governing minimum drinking levels.
March 22, 2001... Daniel uncaps bottles of beer, more to his taste when there is real drinking to be done, and more filling besides; he needs no glass, swigging straight from the bottle, and then pushing it in David's direction. "Wrap your laughing gear around...

Illegal Leisure: The Normalization of Adolescent Recreational Drug Use.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Illegal Leisure: The Normalization of Adolescent Recreational Drug Use, by Howard Parker, Judith Aldridge, and Fiona Measham (London and New York: Routledge, Adolescence and Society Series, 1998), 177 pp., $25 (paper). Illegal Leisure, an...

Understanding and Responding to Drug Use: The Role of Qualitative Research.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Understanding and Responding to Drug Use: The Role of Qualitative Research, European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction (Scientific Monograph Series, No. 4, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg,...