Contemporary Drug Problems articles from March 2004

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from March 2004

Alcohol in courtship contexts: focus-group interviews with young Swedish women and men.
March 22, 2004... The usual view of the combination of young people and alcohol is that it easily amounts to trouble. From the point of view of the young people themselves, however, the perspective usually differs. Alcohol is seen by them as a self-evident part...

The differential effects of exposure to "youth-oriented" magazines on adolescent alcohol use.
March 22, 2004... A growing body of literature has linked beer and alcohol advertising with adolescent drinking expectancies and behaviors (Aitken, 1989; Aitken, Eadie, Leathar, McNeill & Scott, 1988; Atkin, 1990; Atkin, Hocking & Block, 1984; Atkin, Neuendorf &...

Finnish newspapers' positions on drug policy between 1993 and 2000.
March 22, 2004... According to David Garland (2001), two separate criminologies have evolved in Western countries since the end of the 1960s: a "criminology of the other" and a "criminology of the self." In the criminology of the self, state agencies seek to...

Onset of substance use among transnational and domestic agricultural workers: social relations and place of initiation.
March 22, 2004... Little has been written on substance use other than alcohol consumption among farm workers. Granted, there are references to the use of marijuana among Mexican workers in the U.S. in the 1920s and early 1930s, particularly in the Southwest...

Transnational Mexican farmworkers and problem drinking: a review of the literature.
March 22, 2004... Problem drinking among transnational Mexican migrants, as is evident in local newspaper stories and heated discussion in town hall meetings, is drawing increased attention in many agricultural communities throughout the United States. According...

Estimating the prevalence of Ecstasy use among club rave attendees.
March 22, 2004... The "rave" phenomenon--a culture of loud music, flashing lights, wild flowing colors, and frenzied all-night dancing--surfaced in Europe and Australia during the mid-1980s (Measham et al., 2001; Weir, 2000; Randall, 1992). Raves quickly became...