Contemporary Drug Problems articles from September 1992

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from September 1992

America's drug policy: time for another commission?
September 22, 1992... I. The time has come for establishing a national commission to examine the causes of the demand for drugs in the United States and to assess the efficacy of the nation's current policies for reducing this demand. I am a veteran of a...

Before there was "alcoholism": lessons from the medieval experience with alcohol.
September 22, 1992... This is an essay set in our past, before we ever came up with the notion of "alcoholism." At first glance, the evidence is contradictory: most of the people in question drank throughout the day and throughout their lives, and yet few seem to...

Changes in climate of opinion concerning alcohol policy in Finland in the 1980s.
September 22, 1992... "I don't like opinion polls. You take a sample, which is supposed to be the Finnish population in miniature. The interviewers reach a group of human atoms apart from each other and ask them about all kinds of things that they may not have had...

Deconstructing "dependence": an ethnographic critique of an influential concept. (Australia)
September 22, 1992... In an attempt to overhaul the concept of "alcoholism" as a disease, Edwards and Gross (1976) outlined seven diagnostic criteria for alcohol dependence: narrowing of behavioral repertoire, salience of alcohol use, increased tolerance, repeated...

Alcohol and drug abuse in Nigeria: a review of the literature.
September 22, 1992... There is a gradually increasing awareness that many developing African countries are not immune to what now appears to be a world-wide scourge of alcohol and drug abuse. It is in realization of this fact that a number of such countries now have...

Cocaine Changes: The Experience of Using and Quitting.
September 22, 1992... All of us who engage in the field of drug research live in a more or less totalitarian Reich, suffering from muddled terminology and from suffocation by obsolete paradigms and drug political conditions that are more fit for the times of the...

The Myth of Addiction: An Application of the Psychological Theory of Attribution to Illicit Drug Use.
September 22, 1992... All of us who engage in the field of drug research live in a more or less totalitarian Reich, suffering from muddled terminology and from suffocation by obsolete paradigms and drug political conditions that are more fit for the times of the...

Competing Perspectives on Drug Use: The Dutch Experience.
September 22, 1992... Drug control policy in the Netherlands is unique in many respects. Even as most countries have followed in the footsteps of the United States in imposing ever more stringent and punitive prohibitionist measures, the Netherlands has diverged...

Cocaine Use in Amsterdam in Non-Deviant Subcultures.
September 22, 1992... Cocaine Use in Amsterdam in Non Deviant Subcultures is a monograph rich in data, which the author interprets in an open, nonrhetorical fashion. Professor Cohen begins with an executive summary and conclusions. In the introduction he explains...