Table of Contents

Volume 25, Number 3

July - September 1993

Stigma or Legitimation? A Historical Examination of the Social Potentials of Addiction Disease Models — Caroline J. Acker, Ph.D.

Entangled Epidemics: Cocaine Use and HIV Disease — E. Paul Larrat, Ph.D. & Sally Zierler, Dr.P.H.

Sociodemographic and Attitudinal Correlates of Alcohol and Other Drug Use Among Children and Adolescents: Analysis of a Large-Scale Attitude Tracking Study — Thomas R. Zastowny, Ph.D.; Edgar H. Adams, Sc.D.; Gordon S. Black, Ph.D.; Kirke B. Lawton & Anne L. Wilder, M.S.

Issues to Consider When Predicting Retention in Therapeutic Communities — Ward S. Condelli, Ph.D. & George H. Dunteman, Ph.D.

Decline in HIV Seroprevalence and Low Seroconversion Rate Among Injecting Drug Users at a Methadone Maintenance Program in New York City — Nadeem S. Siddiqui, M.D., M.P.H.; Lawrence S. Brown, Jr., M.D., M.P.H.; Thomas J. Meyer, Ph.D. & Virgilina Gonzalez, M.D.

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

Haight-Ashbury Free Clinics’ Drug Detoxification Protocols—Part 2: Opioid Blockade — Gantt Galloway, Pharm.D. & Gregory Hayner, Pharm.D.

Methadone Doses and Psychopathological Symptoms During Methadone Maintenance — Icro Maremmani, Orietta Zolesi, Tommasa Agueci & Paolo Castrogiovanni

Koro in Heroin Withdrawal — Arabinda N. Chowdhury, M.D., M.A.M.S., Ph.D. & Dhrubo Jyoti Bagchi, M.B.B.S.

Referendum Deletes Criminal Sanctions for Drug Users in Italy — Giancarlo Arnao

BOOK REVIEWS

Lesbians and Gay Men: Chemical Dependency Treatment Issues — Reviewed by Joanne M. Hall, R.N., Ph.D.

Crack Pipe as Pimp: An Ethnographic Investigation of Sex-for-Crack Exchanges — Reviewed by Paul Goldstein, Ph.D.

Marihuana, the Forbidden Medicine — Reviewed by David E. Presti, Ph.D. & Richard Evans Schultes, Ph.D.

Cannabis in Amsterdam: A Geography of Hashish and Marijuana — Reviewed by Stephen J. Sifaneck

LITERATURE REVIEW

International Addictions Update — David E. Smith, M.D. & Richard B. Seymour, M.A.

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