Contemporary Drug Problems articles from September 1996

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from September 1996

Alcohol consumption and social harm - conceptual issues and historical perspectives.
September 22, 1996... The historical primacy of social harm from drinking In modern industrial societies, the primary rubric under which alcohol-related problems are usually considered is that of health or mental health. The main governing image for individuals...

What do we know about beneficial consequences of moderate alcohol consumption on social and physical well-being? A critical review of the recent literature.
September 22, 1996... Although the preponderance of research studies on alcohol consumption has been concerned with the deleterious aspects of its ingestion by humans, the last decade has been marked by an increasing number of empirical studies that conclude that...

Drinking patterns and drinking behaviors: theoretical models of risky acts.
September 22, 1996... Successful models linking drinking to subsequent injury require the complementary development of theories of drinking patterns and theories of drinking behaviors. Theories of drinking patterns characterize the primary dimensions of drinking that...

Total versus hazardous per capita alcohol consumption as predictors of acute and chronic alcohol-related harm.
September 22, 1996... This paper is a preliminary attempt to compare the power of different measures of alcohol consumption to predict variations in rates of alcohol-related harm across 130 adjacent geographical areas comprising the state of Western Australia (WA). It...

Daily drinking and harm.
September 22, 1996... Most guidelines on low-risk drinking suggest at least one day per week with no alcohol consumption (e.g., Ashley et al., 1994; British Medical Association, 1995). The ARF-CCSA joint policy statement based on the International Symposium on...

The reward structure of drinking among younger and older male drinkers.
September 22, 1996... In discussions of addictive processes, the arguments presented often imply that the reward structure of drinking changes over time: most benefits are immediate, but many adverse effects are delayed (Skog, 1996). That people continue to drink at a...

Circumstances when drinking leads to aggression: an overview of research findings.
September 22, 1996... Studies of alcohol-related aggression have been framed both in the context of alcohol-related behavior and as a subtype of aggressive behavior. Theoretical discussions of alcohol-related aggression tend to bridge these two very large conceptual...

In Public Houses: Drink and Revolution in Colonial Massachusetts.
September 22, 1996... by David W. Conroy (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995), 351 pp., illustrated, $35.95 cloth, $15.95 paper. The title of David Conroy's superb study alerts us to his purpose: In Public Houses places us directly within the...

Land of Opportunity: One Family's Quest for the American Dream in the Age of Crack.
September 22, 1996... By William M. Adler (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995), xvi + 415 pp., $22.00 U.S. Land of Opportunity traces the rise and fall of Billy Joe and Larry Chambers, fraternal drug dealers who each ran a string of crack houses in Detroit in...