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Social demography of alcohol-related harm to children in Australia

chapterseven — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:26:21 +0000

Abstract Aims: This study seeks to establish the prevalence alcohol-related harms to children (ARHC) that occur because of others’ drinking in the general population and examine how this varies by who was reported to have harmed the child and socio-demographic factors. Design and setting: A randomly selected cross-sectional national population telephone survey undertaken in 2008 in Australia. Participants: 1,142 adult respondents who indicated they lived with or had a parental/carer role for children

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DH streamlines public health social marketing for 2012

arguecerobe — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:41:59 +0000

The Department of Health (DH) will shortly launch public health communications for 2012, taking a 'linked behaviours' approach. It will tailor social marketing operations to follow the life course, instead of focusing on individual behaviour issues. The strategy, Changing behaviour, Improving outcomes , was published in April 2011 and aims to increase effective communication of public health issues

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The social context of controlled drug use amongst young people in a slum area in Makassar, Indonesia

omindyInfinny — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Abstract: Background: There are few studies exploring the social context of controlled drug use amongst young people in Indonesia.

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The social context of controlled drug use amongst young people in a slum area in Makassar, Indonesia

The politics of visibility: Drug users and the spaces of drug use

fashion zuza1 — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

One of the most important changes brought about by sociological research on drug use is the visibility of ‘the drug user’ as an active and multidimensional participant in the social world. While the medical and psychological literature which dominates drug research investigates drug users in a broad sense, it tends to constitute users as clinical objects or monadic subjects who are extracted from the social world and placed into the flat empty space of ‘the study’ or ‘the data’.

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Drug effects, performativity and the law

Stalsbootte — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

How can we register the participation of a range of elements, extending beyond the human subject, in the production of drug effects? Recent work in social studies of drugs has considered the value of displacing the human subject as the sole emphasis of inquiry in favour of relational approaches that emphasize the activity of non-human as well as human actors in the materialization of drug effects (see Keane and Duff, this issue). Implicit in these discussions is a resistance to the conventional ontology of drugs.

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Studying up harm reduction policy: The office as an assemblage

gamvdx — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Abstract: Background: By recounting the making of the office that contributed to the implementation of the harm reduction policy in Taiwan, this paper aims to answer two questions: Who and what assembled to make this policy possible? Which conceptual tool works best to understand what this policy-making was all about?Methods: The research was designed as a multi-sited qualitative study whose materials were collected through archival research, in-depth interviews, and direct field observation.

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Regime change: Re-visiting the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs

kylehumphrey — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Abstract: Background: March 2011 marked the 50th anniversary of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. This legal instrument, the bedrock of the current United Nations based global drug control regime, is often viewed as merely a consolidating treaty bringing together the multilateral drug control agreements that preceded it; an erroneous position that does little to provide historical context for contemporary discussions surrounding revision of the international treaty system.Method: This article applies both historical and international relations perspectives to revisit the development of the Convention. Framing discussion within the context of regime theory, a critique of the foundational pre-1961 treaties is followed by detailed content analysis of the official records of the United Nations conference for the adoption of a Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and, mindful of later treaties, an examination of the treaty’s status as a ‘single’ convention.Results: The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs represents a significant break with the regulative focus of the preceding multilateral treaties; a shift towards a more prohibitive outlook that within international relations terms can be regarded as a change of regime rather than the straightforward codification of earlier instruments

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Maintaining class, producing gender: Enhancement discourses about amphetamine in entertainment media

Peterbzipbdtyeqx — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Abstract: Background: Since the 1930s, amphetamine has been used for a variety of socially and medically condoned purposes including personal and performance enhancement. In the contemporary U.S., although amphetamine and its derivatives share a history, similar chemical composition, and physiological and psychiatric effects, they are typically treated and researched as two distinct groups: illegally produced methamphetamine and prescription amphetamine. This study is an examination of the social meanings of these categories and their users as represented in popular media.Methods: To complement existing research on drug discourses in popular news media, this study analysed entertainment media: ten novels, three seasons of Breaking Bad, six television episodes, and eight movies

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A Population-Based Cohort Study From Finland: Living Alone And Alcohol-Related Mortality

grydarmob77 — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 07:00:00 +0000

Background: Social isolation and living alone are increasingly common in industrialised countries. However, few studies have investigated the potential public health implications of this trend. We estimated the relative risk of death from alcoholrelated causes among individuals living alone and determined whether this risk changed after a large reduction in alcohol prices…

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Alcohol Awareness Week 2011: 14 – 20 November

walimpalo — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:05:00 +0000

Alcohol Awareness Week (AWW) will run from 14 th November to 20 th November 2011 , during which Alcohol Concern will launch an 'Alcohol Charter' for a world free from alcohol harm. The ‘alcohol charter’ campaign has the following goals: