Contemporary Drug Problems articles from March 2007

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from March 2007

More detailed data does not always raise the costs: experience from a Swedish cost of alcohol study.
March 22, 2007... A number of attempts to estimate the societal cost of alcohol consumption or abuse for different countries have been made (e.g. Collins & Lapsley 2002; Rehm, Baliunas Biruchu et al. 2006; Johansson, Jarl, Eriksson et al. 2006). These studies...

Italian alcohol advertising regulation and enforcement.
March 22, 2007... Drinking portrayals and alcohol advertising are common in popular media and young people are highly exposed to them. Although some studies found that exposure to alcohol advertising is related to increases in drinking among youth (Saffer &...

A community perspective of cocaine use in Ireland: a brief exploratory study.
March 22, 2007... Background to research Increases in cocaine use and seizures across Europe have been statistically visible in the last two decades (EMCDDA 2006). Irish drug treatment statistics indicate that while heroin remains the primary drug of misuse...

Addiction medicine and addiction psychiatry in America: the impact of physicians in recovery on the medical treatment of addiction.
March 22, 2007... Man at work has been praised as peaceful, and so have forests, but a detailed study of either will show that conflict can occur without being either swift or bloody. --WILIAM J. GOODE (1960:902) The term addiction medicine is often...

Aftercare and compulsory substance abuse treatment: a venture with potential?(Sweden)
March 22, 2007... This study analyzes how social workers describe case-management after clients' discharge from initial compulsory treatment according to the Act on Care of Addicts in Certain Cases (LVM). Officially, it is often acknowledged that coercing...

A first description of Narcotics Anonymous and Alcoholics Anonymous members in Greece: prior treatment history and opinions about professionals.
March 22, 2007... 1. Introduction The main aim of this article is to present some of the basic findings of research intended to give a current general picture of the groups of Narcotics Anonymous (NA) and Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) in Greece. Specifically,...