Journal of Drug Issues
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Do Drug Courts Work? Getting inside the Drug Court Black Box 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 in... ... hiện toàn bộ
Journal of Drug Issues - Tập 31 Số 1 - Trang 27-72 - 2001
Community Attitudes to Cannabis Use in Western Australia 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 we... ... hiện toàn bộ
Journal of Drug Issues - Tập 26 Số 4 - Trang 783-804 - 1996
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 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/... ... hiện toàn bộ
Journal of Drug Issues - Tập 50 Số 2 - Trang 157-172 - 2020
Drug Generations in the 2000s 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 s... ... hiện toàn bộ
Journal of Drug Issues - Tập 43 Số 3 - Trang 335-356 - 2013
Community Characteristics and Methamphetamine Use: A Social Disorganization Perspective 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 exper... ... hiện toàn bộ
Journal of Drug Issues - Tập 39 Số 3 - Trang 547-576 - 2009
Everybody’s Doing It 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 Dr... ... hiện toàn bộ
Journal of Drug Issues - Tập 44 Số 3 - Trang 236-253 - 2014
Nonmedical Prescription Drug Use and Delinquency: An Analysis with a National Sample 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 o... ... hiện toàn bộ
Journal of Drug Issues - Tập 38 Số 2 - Trang 493-516 - 2008
Perceived Drug Use Functions and Risk Reduction Practices Among High-Risk Nonmedical Users of Prescription Drugs 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 ... ... hiện toàn bộ
Journal of Drug Issues - Tập 43 Số 4 - Trang 483-496 - 2013
An Exploratory Study of Socio-Cultural Factors Contributing to Prescription Drug Misuse among College Students 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... ... hiện toàn bộ
Journal of Drug Issues - Tập 36 Số 4 - Trang 903-931 - 2006
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