Contemporary Drug Problems articles from September 2002

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from September 2002

The six-country survey of the European comparative alcohol study: comparing patterns and assessing validity.
September 22, 2002... Most comparative studies on differences in alcohol consumption between countries are based on analyses of recorded per capita alcohol consumption, often alcohol sales. These aggregate data, however, do not permit any detailed analyses of...

A comparative analysis of drinking patterns in six EU countries in the year 2000.
September 22, 2002... This study analyzes survey data collected in May 2000 in six EU member states, with about 1,000 respondents randomly selected in each country. The principal aim of the study is to compare different aspects of drinking habits in these six EU...

Alcohol consumption and the experience of adverse consequences--a comparison of six European countries.
September 22, 2002... There is clear evidence that alcohol use increases the risk of various physical harms and that the risk rises with the volume of drinking (Anderson, 1995). Many alcohol-related problems, however, reach beyond the realm of the drinkers' own...

Informal alcohol control in six EU countries.
September 22, 2002... Alcohol control most often tends to be viewed from a control-systems perspective, so that control actions are seen as a responsibility of policy makers (Makela et al., 1981), with alcohol policies considered to have an effect on public health...

Attitudes toward alcohol policy in six EU countries.
September 22, 2002... There has been a growing interest in attitudes toward different alcohol policy issues, such as opinions about increased prices of alcoholic beverages (Goodstadt et al., 1978), warning labels on beverage containers (Hilton & Kaskutas, 1991),...

Can alcohol expectancies and attributions explain Western Europe's north-south gradient in alcohol's role in violence?
September 22, 2002... Alcohol's position in the culture differs from one society to another (Room & Makela, 2000). One dimension of this variation is between what have been described as "wet" and "dry" societies (Room, 1989). Although the distinction can be made...

Sit down and Drink Your Beer: Regulating Vancouver's Beer Parlours, 1925-1954.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by Robert A. Campbell (Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 2001), 192 pp./20 illustrations, cloth Can$50; paper Can$19.95. Vancouver's beer parlors were opened following the repeal of a brief (four-year) war-related...