Recently added articles from Contemporary Drug Problems:
Moral, prudential, and political arguments about harm reduction
Jul 01, 2008; ... A May 28, 2007 New York Times story profiled Ron Daniels, director of Prevention Works, a syringe exchange in Washington, DC. The front-page story depicted Daniels' journeys through low-income neighborhoods in his Winnebago van, as he distributed sterile syringes and other supplies to injection ...
Drug normalization and the case of Sweden
Jul 01, 2008; ... In relation to drug use research the concept of normalization is most commonly connected to Parker and his colleagues' "drug normalization thesis". In their work the researchers lay down their account of what they see as a "cultural accommodation" of drug use. This recent conception of ...
Weighing up crime: The overestimation of drug-related crime
Jul 01, 2008; ... This article explores the linkage of criminal harm to drug use and challenges prevalent overestimations of the proportion of crime that can be causally attributed to drug use. These estimates often use data from surveyed arrestees. This article uses data from the British Offending, Crime and ...
Alcohol advertising on billboards, transit shelters, and bus benches in inner-city neighborhoods
Jul 01, 2008; ... We describe the structure, content, and neighborhood characteristics of outdoor alcohol advertisements (n=246) in innercity neighborhoods in ten U.S. cities from 2003 to 2005. We conducted observations of alcohol advertisements on billboards, transit shelters, and bus benches in all ten cities ...
Implications of inertia for assessing drug control policy: Why upstream interventions may not receive due credit
Jul 01, 2008; ... An empirically-derived model of national drug initiation is combined with a compartment model of trends in illicit drug use parameterized for Australia. Numbers of initiates seem to oscillate over time but with fluctuations whose aplitude diminishes over time. Lags and interpersonal variation in ...