Contemporary Drug Problems articles from March 2002

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from March 2002

Building identity and community. (Drinking and Drug Use in Youth Cultures, part 1) (Sweden)
March 22, 2002... This is the first of two issues of Contemporary Drug Problems on qualitative studies of drinking and drug use in youth cultures. The papers are revised from papers presented and discussed at a conference at Skarpo, Sweden, on 23-26 April, 2001....

Opening up the cul-de-sac of youth drug studies: a contribution to the construction of some alternative truths.
March 22, 2002... In an article published in the Drug and Alcohol Review (Moore, 1990), I reviewed the Australian research literature on alcohol and other drug use among young people. I reached four conclusions about trends in this research, aspects of which...

Who directs whom? Films and reality for young heroin users in a Swedish town.
March 22, 2002... This article is an analysis of young heroin users in Norrkoping, a Swedish town with 122,000 inhabitants. Prior to 1995 there were only a few individual heroin users in this town, where the dominant drug type was amphetamine. However, since...

Becoming a "hype": heroin consumption, subcultural formation and resistance in Canada, 1945-1961.
March 22, 2002... Most young heroin users in Canada in the late 1940s and 1950s were working-class or had grown up in poverty. They often came from troubled family backgrounds. Many had spent time in juvenile institutions or foster homes, and some had...

Drug pathways, transitions and decisions: the experiences of young people in an inner-city Dublin community.
March 22, 2002... In Ireland, as elsewhere, drug use by young people has moved from peripheral subcultures to a situation where drugs appear to be increasingly accessible and more widely used. (1) Results from the most recent national study of tobacco, alcohol...

"Dancestasy": dance and MDMA use in Dutch youth culture.
March 22, 2002... For more than a decade dancing on XTC has been a much-debated high. In the late 1980s MDMA ("XTC," "Ecstasy," "E," "X") was welcomed by the first generation of users as the drug that would revive ideals of community, sensitivity and...

Recreational drug use in Estonia: the context of club culture.
March 22, 2002... The late 1980s and early 1990s marked the beginning of a deep social transformation in Estonia, as they did in other parts of the formerly socialist Central and Eastern Europe as well. The revolutionary processes resulted in the restoration of...

A political economy of "Doves".
March 22, 2002... Names for drugs in the illicit-drug economy have received little attention. The illicit-drug market is one of the largest commodity markets in the world (Macdonald & Zagaris, 1992), and, like other commodities, illicit drugs may be subject to...