Contemporary Drug Problems articles from September 1995

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from September 1995

Cultural differences in women's drinking.
September 22, 1995... A dinner party in the house of Gaius Julius Caesar, 110 B.C.: Then they came in, the women. Marcia and the two Julias. Ravishing! Absolutely ravishing, including the mother. The servants set upright chairs for them inside the hollow center of...

A thing so fallen, and so vile: images of drinking and sexuality in women.
September 22, 1995... . . . that woman should renounce the tenderness of her nature, belie the softness of her sex, stoop from her high station . . . that she should herself be the victim of intemperance; that woman should herself be guilty of the bestiality of...

Women, crack, and crime: gender comparisons of criminal activity among crack cocaine users.
September 22, 1995... Gender differences in criminal activity and drug use have placed women in a disadvantaged status. Moreover, women crack users have been portrayed as, and often are, "victims" of the contemporary culture of crack-cocaine. Due to the lack of legal...

The impact of region and urbanization on African American drinking patterns: results from a national survey.
September 22, 1995... Regional migration has been a central aspect of black American social life throughout the present century. Beginning in the early l900s, thousands of blacks began to flock to Northern cities in one of the early waves of the "Great Migration." The...

Keeping off, stepping on and stepping off: the steppingstone theory reevaluated in the context of the Dutch cannabis experience.
September 22, 1995... The epidemiology of drug use is specifically concerned with patterns and trends occurring in well-defined populations. The socio-cultural environments that provide the contexts for drug use are an important part of these population definitions....

Behind closed doors at the Mouse Cafe: a subcultural enclave of coffee shop suppliers in Amsterdam.
September 22, 1995... A unique paradox in contemporary illicit drug control policy is represented by "normalization" as it is practiced in the Netherlands (Korf, 1988; Engelsman, 1989; van Vliet, 1990; van de Wijngaart, 1990; de Kort, 1994). Dutch drug policy...

Describing DAWN's dominion. (Drug Abuse Warning Network)
September 22, 1995... Since 1972 the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) has collected data on the incidence of emergency room episodes related to drug abuse. The system was designed to serve a number of purposes: to identify substances associated with emergency room...

Alcohol and Interpersonal Violence: Fostering Multidisciplinary Perspectives.
September 22, 1995... Edited by Susan E. Martin (Rockville, MD: National Institutes of Health, 1993), xiii + 323 pp., $44.50 U.S.(1) Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick The statistical evidence that drinking...

Drug and Alcohol Abuse Reviews, vol. 5, Addictive Behaviors in Women.
September 22, 1995... Edited by Ronald R. Watson (Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 1994), 536 pp., $69.50 ($79.50 outside U.S.), cloth only. Although interest in the causes and consequences of substance use and abuse among women has been increasing over the past two...