Contemporary Drug Problems articles from March 22 2008

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from March 22 2008

The 2003 Slovenian alcohol policy: background, supporters, and opponents.
March 22, 2008... On many occasions throughout the 20th century, medical professionals and religous clergy have worked together with the local Slovenian government, as well as the federal Yugoslavian government, to implement measures that would curtail alcohol...

Under-estimation of alcohol consumption among women at-risk for drinking during pregnancy.
March 22, 2008... Over recent years, researchers have heeded the call for improved measures of alcohol consumption and have begun to develop more sophisticated methodologies to assess actual use for both general populations (Dawson, 2003; Kerr, Greenfield,...

Social organization in bars: implications for tobacco control policy.
March 22, 2008... Public health policies related to alcohol generally and bars or other on-premise alcohol outlets specifically typically characterize bars as discrete and relatively homogenous units consisting of the physical setting, the server and other...

Adolescents' perceptions of friends during substance abuse treatment: a qualitative study.
March 22, 2008... Peer relationships have long been recognized as a significant influence on the behavior of adolescents. A substantial body of research supports the view that substance-using peers are a significant predictor of adolescent substance use...

Structural and personal factors related to access to housing and housing stability among urban drug users in Hartford, Connecticut.
March 22, 2008... Early researchers studying the causes of homelessness often focused on individual pathologies, such as chronic substance abuse or mental illness (Lamb, 1984; Baum & Burnes, 1993), e.g. the risky person model (Aidala, 2006). Others have argued...

Teen drug sellers - an international study of segregated drug markets and related violence.
March 22, 2008... Who provides the drugs for youthful drug users? The myth of the older adult lurking around the schoolyard offering drugs to naive youngsters has been replaced by a less palatable truth. Youth do indeed provide drugs to other youth; some may...

Psychoactive substance use among young people: core findings of a multi-center study in the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation.
March 22, 2008... Against the background of reports of a rise in psychoactive substance use, particularly among adolescents, the United Nations International Drug Control Program (UNDCP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) initiated the Global Initiative...