Contemporary Drug Problems articles from March 2006

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from March 2006

Young women's and men's different worlds of alcohol, fear, and violence in focus group discussions with 18-year-olds in Stockholm.
March 22, 2006... Alcohol and violence Identifying the role of alcohol vis-a-vis violence has been a long-standing question within alcohol research (for an overview of different research see Graham et al. 1998). Researchers generally agree that aggressive...

A big night out in Melbourne: drinking as an enactment of class and gender.
March 22, 2006... Alcohol is on the ascendency as the drug of choice for young people in Australia and the UK. There is evidence that the "decade of dance" is over, party drugs such as ecstasy are declining and young people are turning back to determined...

Giving up on drugs: homeless young people and self-reported problematic drug use.(Australia)
March 22, 2006... People typically regard Jamie as being "on the streets" but to him living in a bushland squat means he is "not quite homeless". In his words, he is "homeless but not roofless". Jamie is 17 and has been living on the streets on or off since he...

Questions on the interpretation of drug users' autobiographies in a country in the "early" phase of drug use.
March 22, 2006... Before the political and economic changes of 1990 there was in communist Hungary essentially no drug use comparable to that found in America or Western Europe. In the 1990s, following the political changes, the use of illegal substances grew...

Gender aspects of affiliation with Alcoholics Anonymous after treatment.
March 22, 2006... In the early days of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), women's way into the meetings were fraught with resistance from male members, as well as with a higher degree of social stigma than surrounds women's drinking today (Makela et al., 1996). One...

The historical roots of Ledermann's theory of the distribution of alcohol consumption.(French demographer Sully Ledermann)
March 22, 2006... The crudeness of our everyday language can sometimes seriously distort our pictures of reality. Many people seem to classify alcohol consumers into a few discrete types, labeled as "normal drinkers", "abusers", "drunks", and "alcoholics". The...