Journal of Drug Issues
SCOPUS (1971-2025)SSCI-ISI
0022-0426
1945-1369
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Cơ quản chủ quản: SAGE Publications Inc.
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Psychiatry and Mental HealthPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthHealth (social science)Medicine (miscellaneous)
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Do Drug Courts Work? Getting inside the Drug Court Black Box
Tập 31 Số 1 - Trang 27-72 - 2001
This article argues that evaluation of drug courts will benefit not only from an
organizing typology (Goldkamp, 1999a, 2000) that focuses research on the
critical structural elements of the drug court model but also from an
understanding of how drug courts are thought to deliver their impact. In
developing a causal model of drug court impact, the analysis separates
assessment of impact into two in...
An Exploratory Study of Socio-Cultural Factors Contributing to Prescription Drug Misuse among College Students
Tập 36 Số 4 - Trang 903-931 - 2006
Although recent increases in collegiate prescription drug misuse have generated
a great deal of concern, there are few analyses available that examine the
socio-cultural factors influencing these trends. This article attempts to
address this gap in knowledge by providing an analysis of several socio-cultural
factors influencing pharmaceutical misuse by college students. Prescription
drugs are put ...
Everybody’s Doing It
Tập 44 Số 3 - Trang 236-253 - 2014
In this article, we present findings from a qualitative National Institute on
Drug Abuse-funded study of nonmedical prescription drug users in the San
Francisco Bay Area. We interviewed young adults between the ages of 18 and 25
years, who used prescription drugs nonmedically at least 12 times in the 6
months prior to the interview. Employing Aker’s Social Learning Theory and
Zinberg’s Drug, Set, ...
Nonmedical Prescription Drug Use and Delinquency: An Analysis with a National Sample
Tập 38 Số 2 - Trang 493-516 - 2008
There is an abundance of research on the association between substance use and
delinquency. However, an area yet to be examined is the association between
nonmedical prescription drug use and delinquency. This is important given the
substantial increase in nonmedical prescription drug use in recent years and the
fact that recent national surveys of substance use show that the prevalence of
nonmedi...
Perceived Drug Use Functions and Risk Reduction Practices Among High-Risk Nonmedical Users of Prescription Drugs
Tập 43 Số 4 - Trang 483-496 - 2013
Nonmedical use of prescription drugs has become the fastest growing drug problem
in the United States, particularly among young adults. This study examines the
reasons young polydrug users misuse prescription drugs, and explores how young
users employ risk reduction strategies to minimize adverse consequences. The
sample was recruited during 2008 and 2009 in Los Angeles and New York, and
comprised...
Community Attitudes to Cannabis Use in Western Australia
Tập 26 Số 4 - Trang 783-804 - 1996
This paper presents results of a telephone survey of 400 Western Australians
regarding attitudes to laws relating to possession of cannabis for personal use.
Over a third of respondents believed cannabis should be made as legal as
alcohol. Support for decriminalization increased from 64.0% to 71.5% when
possible penalties associated with decriminalization were described. When
penalties were descri...
Community Characteristics and Methamphetamine Use: A Social Disorganization Perspective
Tập 39 Số 3 - Trang 547-576 - 2009
The current study applied the first macro-level analysis of methamphetamine use.
The extant literature on macro-level drug use has suggested that areas with high
levels of social disorganization experience high rates of drug use. In this
study it was expected that school districts with low SES and high rates of
ethnic heterogeneity, residential instability and family disruption will
experience hig...
Drug Generations in the 2000s
Tập 43 Số 3 - Trang 335-356 - 2013
Much empirical evidence indicates that the popularity of various drugs tends to
increase and wane over time producing episodic epidemics of particular drugs.
These epidemics mostly affect persons reaching their late teens at the time of
the epidemic resulting in distinct drug generations. This article examines the
drug generations present in the 2000s among arrestees in the 10 locations served
by ...
The Role of Life Events/Contextual Factors and Cannabis Use in Patterns of Other Drug Use Among Young Adult Cannabis Users in Los Angeles: A Qualitative Inquiry
Tập 50 Số 2 - Trang 157-172 - 2020
This analysis examined the role of impactful life events/stressful contextual
factors and cannabis use in the patterns of illicit drug use. It utilized
semi-structured qualitative interviews with 40 young adult medical cannabis
patients and 22 non-patient users collected in Los Angeles during 2014–2015.
Three patterns of illicit drug use emerged based on participants’ narratives:
regular/problemat...