Contemporary Drug Problems articles from September 2003

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from September 2003

Anabolic steroids and dependence.
September 22, 2003... The illicit use of anabolic-androgenic steroids (AS) has become a prominent public health issue in recent years. Scandals about the positive drug tests of Olympic and elite athletes have been joined by concern about noncompetitive bodybuilders,...

Drug policy as policy with foreigners: the Austrian case in times of European integration.
September 22, 2003... AUTHOR'S NOTE: Many thanks to Ronald Knibbe, Jacek Moskalewicz, and Robin Room, who commented on confused first versions of this paper and stimulated an extensive change. They are not responsible for the final result. Two events taking...

Tragic beauties: heroin images and heroin users.
September 22, 2003... AUTHORS' NOTE: This research is supported by a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (RO1 DA12073), Moira O'Brien, Ph.D., program officer. We are genuinely grateful to the study participants who gave so generously of their time and...

Drinking and life: the meanings of alcohol for young Namibian women.
September 22, 2003... AUTHOR'S NOTE: Funding for the research and publication came from the Norwegian Research Council. Alcohol use is a familiar activity within most cultures. However, it occurs in different ways and takes on different meanings in different...

Recovery careers of people in Alcoholics Anonymous: moral careers revisited.
September 22, 2003... AUTHOR'S NOTE: The author gratefully acknowledges the support of Training Grant T32-AA-07473 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, under the direction of Paul Roman, during the preparation of this manuscript. I would also...

Comparing drinking patterns in Finland and Ontario (Canada).
September 22, 2003... AUTHORS' NOTE: An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 26th Annual Epidemiology Symposium of the Kettil Bruun Society, Oslo, Norway, June 2000. Address correspondence to John Cunningham, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 33...

Interpretations of survey questions on one's partner's alcohol consumption.(2000 Finnish Drinking Habits Survey)
September 22, 2003... It is important to understand the experiences of drinkers' intimate others when the social harms of drinking and its consequences for the family, work and social relations are of interest. The differentiating of drinking from other factors then...

School-Based Drug Prevention: What Kind of Drug Use Does It Prevent?(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Jonathan P. Caulkins, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Susan Paddock, and James Chiesa (Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2002), 174 pp., $24 (paper). The authors of School-Based Drug Prevention propose two primary research questions: Are school-based...

Handbook for Conducting Drug Abuse Research with Hispanic Populations.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Robert C. Freeman, Yvonne P. Lewis, and Hector Manuel Colon (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002), 368 pp., $72 (cloth only). One of the primary goals of drug abuse research is to predict outcomes such as "addiction" while...