Contemporary Drug Problems articles from September 1994

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from September 1994

Administration and prison suasion: law enforcement in the American temperance movement, 1880-1920. (Temperance Campaigns in a Broader Perspective: New Work in the Social History of Alcohol, part 1)
September 22, 1994... Mental Suasion for the Man who Thinks. Moral Suasion for the Man who Drinks. Legal Suasion for the Drunkard-maker. Prison Suasion for the Statute-breaker In this verse an anonymous 19th-century author captured the essence of the American...

Temperance campaigning and alcohol consumption: a case study from pre-confederation Canada.
September 22, 1994... Today's large and powerful antismoking lobby has perhaps unconsciously absorbed a lesson from an earlier generation of prohibitionists. It seems advisable to curb the "vice" through education, taxation, and various restrictions that fall short of...

Defining "drunk" in early modern Germany.
September 22, 1994... "All the Germans have one National Vice of Drunckenness in such excesse . . . as it staynes all theire nationalle vertues," wrote English traveler Fynes Moryson in 1617. Other travelers to Germany during the 16th and 17th centuries, including...

The first step toward sobriety: the "Boozing Devil" in sixteenth-century Germany.
September 22, 1994... The long transition from feudal society to the modern era witnessed repeated attempts to contain excessive drinking, a phenomenon of interest to both social historians and historical anthropologists.(1) The building of the "iron cage" of...

In another city, in another time: rhetoric and the creation of a drug scare in eighteenth-century London.
September 22, 1994... AUTHOR'S NOTE: This paper was presented at the International Congress on the Social History of Alcohol, London, Ontario, May 13-15, 1993. Its preparation was supported in part by a National Alcohol Research Training Center Grant (T32 AA07240-14)...

Drink in Canada.
September 22, 1994... Edited by Cheryl Krasnick Warsh (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993), 272 pp., $39.95 CDN (cloth), $17.95 CDN (paper). Three years ago, Robin Room and Susanna Barrows trenchantly remarked that alcohol "as a ubiquitous...