Addiction Research & Theory Volume 13 Issue 4

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Addiction as accomplishment: The discursive construction of disease

Reinarman, Craig

2005 Addiction Research & Theory

The ubiquity of the disease concept of addiction obscures the fact that it did not emerge from the accretion of scientific discoveries. Addiction-as-disease has been continuously redefined, mostly in the direction of conceptual elasticity, such that it now yields an embarrassment of riches: a...

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Multicultural contexts and alcohol and drug use as symbolic behaviour

Room, Robin

2005 Addiction Research & Theory

doi:10.1080/16066350500136326

Diverse forms of cultural contact, from living together in the same society to tourism, are considered in terms of what they mean for substance use. In a multicultural society, ethnicities are partly assigned and partly constructed, and can also be a performance in front of an audience of others....

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“I am not a drug abuser, I am a drug user”: A discourse analysis of 44 drug users’ construction of identity

Rødner, Sharon

2005 Addiction Research & Theory

doi:10.1080/16066350500136276

Based on individual conversational interviews with 44 socially integrated drug users in Stockholm, this article examines the informants’ self-presentations and their representations of drug abusers. The results show that the informants strive towards positive self-presentation. In this process,...

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An investigation of descriptive and experimental aspects of intrusive thoughts in a sample of substance-dependent inpatients

Reynolds, Martina; Valmana, Anton; Kouimtsidis, Christos; Donaldson, Catherine; Ghodse, Hamid

2005 Addiction Research & Theory

doi:10.1080/16066350500064239

Aims: Thought processes have been hypothesised to play a role in addiction and relapse (Salkovskis and Reynolds (1994)). Thought suppression and smoking cessation showed that suppression was associated with an increase in smoking-related intrusive thoughts, whilst a distracting task (relaxation)...

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Retrieval strategies and cultural differences in answering survey questions on drinking: A cross-national comparison

Raitasalo, Kirsimarja; Knibbe, Ronald; Kraus, Ludwig

2005 Addiction Research & Theory

doi:10.1080/1606635042000334179

Aim. This research compares retrieval strategies and cultural differences in answering survey questions using protocol analysis on four alcohol use items: frequency of drinking, quantity of drinking, frequency of drunkenness, and the context of drinking in the last 12 months. Data. The data came...

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Using multiple coders to enhance qualitative analysis: The case of interviews with consumers of drug treatment

Berends, Lynda; Johnston, Jennifer

2005 Addiction Research & Theory

doi:10.1080/16066350500102237

This article describes strategies used to support a systematic, inductive analysis of interviews with consumers of drug treatment. Data analysis was based on phenomenology and grounded theory. A coding system was developed, with a codebook to explicate the system. The codebook comprised the code...

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The relationship between cognitive preoccupation with alcohol and alcohol use in male and female college students

Marczinski, Cecile A.; Bryant, Rachel; Fillmore, Mark T.

2005 Addiction Research & Theory

doi:10.1080/16066350500150665

This research examined the relationship between self-reported cognitive preoccupation with drinking and self-reported and ad lib measures of alcohol consumption in male and female college students. Fifty undergraduates rated their degree of preoccupation with drinking using the Cognitive and...

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Needle Foucation: Deux ou Trois Choses que Je Sais de Pica Manie (with apologies to Jean Luc Godard)

McBride, Andrew; Pates, Richard

2005 Addiction Research & Theory

doi:10.1080/16066350500095233

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The power of naming: A reply to McBride and Pates

Fraser, Suzanne; Hopwood, Max; Treloar, Carla; Brener, Loren

2005 Addiction Research & Theory

doi:10.1080/16066350500096033