Contemporary Drug Problems articles from September 2004

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from September 2004

The harm-reduction school of thought: three fractions.
September 22, 2004... Harm reduction is an international school of thought that aims to promote an assemblage of harm-related practices and goals to drug policies. As such, it is often treated as a policy community with a somewhat coherent approach to the drugs...

Cannabis careers reconsidered: transitions and trajectories of committed long-term users.
September 22, 2004... Cannabis is the most widely used illicit drug in the West and many other parts of the world. Surveys in Canada showed increasing use among youths in the 1990s and a lower perceived risk of the associated harms (Adlaf, Ivis, Smart, and Walsh,...

Crystal methamphetamine use among gay men in Sydney.
September 22, 2004... Crystal methamphetamine [d-methamphetamine hydrochloride] and its attendant dangers and pleasures have received considerable attention in the Sydney gay community and mainstream press since around 1998. Much of this discussion has been alarmist...

Measuring alcohol consumption.
September 22, 2004... The recent World Health Report (World Health Organization, 2002) again confirms that alcohol consumption is one of the major risk factors for morbidity and mortality worldwide. In established market economies, 9.2% of the disease burden in 2000...

Measuring alcohol consumption.(Reasons for undercoverage: selective non-response and individual response patterns)
September 22, 2004... There are two main lines of reasoning that may account for undercoverage (Alanko, 1984): 1. Selective non-response. This can occur either as sample selection bias (sample frame effects)--i.e., particularly high consumers are not included...

Alcohol consumption and homicides in Canada, 1950-1999.
September 22, 2004... In 1998 more than 400 persons died from homicide in Canada. A recent Canadian study (Pernanen et al., 2002) found that more than half of those federal inmates convicted for homicides had been intoxicated by alcohol at the time of the crime, and...

Alcohol point-of-purchase advertising and promotions: prevalence, content, and targeting.
September 22, 2004... Each year more than 100,000 Americans die from alcohol-related deaths. (1) Annual costs of health care and lost productivity from alcohol-related deaths, injuries, and illness are estimated at more than $148 billion. (2) Ethnic minorities...

Intoxicated Identities: Alcohol's Power in Mexican History and Culture.(Book review)
September 22, 2004... Intoxicated Identities: Alcohol's Power in Mexican History and Culture, by Tim Mitchell (New York & London: Routledge, 2004), 211 pp., $22.95. Intoxicated Identities is an interesting and important book, but also an exasperating one. It is...