International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy: Volume 16 Issue 5/6

PRESENTATIONS ON ALCOHOL AND DRUGS AT THE 1995 AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

Fred Hoffman

The etiology and treatment of substance abuse are matters of great concern in applied social science. This special issue of the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy…

IRISH DRINKING WORLDS: A SOCIO‐CULTURAL REINTERPRETATION OF AMBIVALENCE

Tanya M. Cassidy

Many researchers who have studied drinking in Ireland have worked under the assumption that the Irish have a particularly acute problem with alcohol. Through an investigation of…

REEXAMINING GENDER DIFFERENCES IN CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING INITIATION AND ESCALATION OF BINGE DRINKING

Xiaoru Liu, Howard B. Kaplan

Hypotheses regarding gender differences in circumstances surrounding the initiation/escalation of binge drinking are tested in a sample of young adults from a general population…

WOMEN AND ALCOHOL: DEFINING THE PROBLEM AND SEEKING HELP

Lynn Preston

This paper examines the accounts of three women, taken from the general population, who will not seek help for their alcohol problems. The narrative construction of their drinking…

UNDERAGE DRINKING, PEER INFLUENCE, AND ESCALATION

Michael M. Hood

Juvenile delinquency research has identified two vital (and related) concepts to this area of study: age of onset and escalation. In this investigation, escalation is examined as…

THE CONSTRUCTION OF TOPIC IN THE TURNS OF TALK AT THE MEETINGS OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

Ilkka Arminen

This is a study of how members of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) produce their talk, using the principles of ethnomethodological conversation analysis. The focus is on two interralated…

THE ROLE OF PERSONALITY IN TREATMENT OUTCOME FOR DRUG INVOLVED OFFENDERS

Robert S. Gossweiler, Steven S. Martin

This study examines the relationship of personality characteristics to drug treatment effectiveness for prison releasees. Prison releasees from two drug treatment programs (an…

VIOLENCE: A BARRIER TO METHADONE MAINTENANCE TREATMENT FOR WOMEN INJECTION DRUG USERS

Margaret S. Kelley, Marsha Rosenbaum, Kelly Knight, Jeanette Irwin, Allyson Washburn

We investigate the relationships between violence, drug use and methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) for women injection drug users (IDUs). The data presented here come from a…

THE ETIOLOGY AND TREATMENT OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE

Mark Peyrot

The abuse of alcohol and other drugs (AOD) has become one of the most important social problems in modern society. AOD abuse causes untold personal anguish to the abusers and…