Contemporary Drug Problems articles from September 2000

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from September 2000

Preventive interventions for on-premise drinking: a promising but underresearched area of prevention.
September 22, 2000... The man known to Londoners as the year's first homicide victim was remembered yesterday by friends and family as a person who loved poetry, music and art [20-year-old man who was killed when he intervened in a dispute outside a bar]. (London...

Resisting 12-Step Coercion: How to Fight Forced Participation in AA, NA, or 12-Step Treatment.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Resisting 12-Step Coercion: How to Fight Forced Participation in AA, NA, or 12-Step Treatment, by Stanton Peele and Charles Bufe with Archie Brodsky (Tucson, AZ: Sharp Press, 2000), 204 pp., $14.95 paper. Background Between 1930 and...

Does alcohol matter? Public health in Russia and the Baltic countries before, during, and after the transition.
September 22, 2000... A public health crisis Since the mid-1980s mortality rates have fluctuated dramatically in the former Soviet Union. As illustrated by Table 1 and Figure 1, life expectancy declined to unprecedented levels in the early 1990s after a...

Alcohol in the countries in transition: the Polish experience and the wider context.
September 22, 2000... Transition is a key concept to describe profound political and economic changes in a region covering close to 20% of the earth and including more than 400 million people. The area of countries in transition includes a great range of peoples,...

Contributions from alcohol research to the formation and analysis of alcohol policy.
September 22, 2000... Alcohol policies are often based on a combination of political expediency, commercial interests, historical tradition, common sense, public health need, crisis intervention, and a scientific understanding of what works. Of all the factors...

Suicide, violence and child abuse: a review of the impact of alcohol consumption on social problems.
September 22, 2000... This paper focuses on consequences from drinking that are of particular interest from an alcohol policy point of view because they imply a burden on the drinker's social network, the local community, and/or the society. In this respect, suicide...

Alcohol policy issues for indigenous people in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
September 22, 2000... Indigenous people in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States inhabit a particular space within policy and resource allocation in these countries.(1) This is because they are what has been termed "Fourth World" people,(2) the...