Table of Contents

Volume 23, Number 1

January-March 1991

Drug Sharing and HIV Transmission Risks: The Practice of Frontloading in the Dutch Injecting Drug User Population - Jean-Paul C. Grund; Charles D. Kaplan; Nico F.P. Adriaans & Peter Blanken

The Crack Life: An Ethnographic Overview of Crack Use and Sexual Behavior Among African-Americans in a Midwest Metropolitan City - Robert G. Carlson. Ph.D. & Harvey A Siegal. Ph.D.

Ambivalence Toward Methadone Treatment Among Intravenous Drug Users - Andrew Rosenblum; Stephen Magura & Herman Joseph

Human Hallucinogenic Drug Research in the United States: A Present-day Case History and Review of the Process - Rick J. Strassman. M.D

An Ethnomycological Review of Psychoactive Agarics in Australia and New Zealand - John w: Allen; Mark D. Merlin. Ph.D. & Karl L.R. Jansen. M.D.

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS 

Benzodiazepine Withdrawal: Clinicians' Ratings of Carbamazepine Treatment Versus Traditional Taper Methods - Richard Ries, M.D.; Sam Cullison. M.D.; Ron Horn. M.D.& Nicholas Ward. M.D.

Attitudes About Decriminalization of Drug Use - Roger C. Katz; Cindy Magee & Rene Hudson

Substance Abuse, Post-traumatic Stress, and Ethnicity - James Allen Wilcox, D.O.; David F. Briones. M.D. & Larry Suess. D.O., Ph.D.

Edmond DeCourtive and the First Thesis on Hashish: A Historical Note and Translation - Ronald K. Siegel, Ph.D. & Ada E. Hirschman, B.A.

BOOK REVIEWS

Diseasing of America: Addiction Treatment Out of Control - Reviewed by Charles Neuhaus, Jr., M.Ed.

Treating Alcohol Dependence: A Coping Skills Training Guide - Reviewed by Genevieve R. Howe, M.S., M.F.C.C. & Israel Ndoro

Addiction and the Vulnerable Self: Modified Dynamic Group Therapyfor Substance Abusers - Reviewed by Herbert J. Freudenberger, Ph.D.

Cocaine in the Brain - Reviewed by Ronald K. Siegel, Ph.D.

COVER ART - by April Berger