Occupation and the Prevalence of Major Depression, Alcohol, and Drug Abuse in the United States

1993 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 266-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.E. Roberts ◽  
E.S. Lee
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Major Depression ◽  
The United States ◽  
Alcohol And Drug Abuse

Drug Abuse among Military Offenders

1978 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bascom W. Ratliff ◽  
Jerry Eads
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Drug Abuse ◽  
United States Army ◽  
Strong Correlation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Active Duty ◽  
Drug Sales ◽  
Alcohol And Drug Abuse ◽  
The Military

A survey of military offenders' drug abuse histories both prior to, and after entry on active duty was conducted at the United States Army Retraining Brigade in the fall of 1975. Results indicated that a substantial number of trainees began to abuse drugs prior to entering the military, but increased that use once on active duty. There was also a strong correlation between drug abuse and the court-martial offenses of AWOL, drug sales and possession, and disrespect. Findings clearly showed that individuals who commit offenses have substantial histories of alcohol and drug abuse.

Counting Youth in Trouble in Institutions: Bringing the United States Up to Date

1991 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 465-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Lerman
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
The United States ◽  
Control Treatment ◽  
State Laws ◽  
Current Usage ◽  
Alcohol And Drug Abuse

Youth who violate local and state laws are dealt with in institutions associated with mental health, child welfare, and alcohol and drug abuse systems, as well as the juvenile correctional system. Understanding trends in the use of institutions requires information from four control/treatment systems that have developed unique strategies for counting youth. America's systems for counting youth are 3 to 5 years behind current usage and yield deficient resident and admissions data. A modest investment of political leadership and fiscal resources could yield more timely reporting, fuller coverage of facilities, improved demographic enumerations, and could provide unduplicated counts of intersystem trends.

“The Abominable Crime of Onan”: Catholic Pastoral Practice and Family Limitation in the United States, 1875–1919

2002 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Woodcock Tentler
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Major Depression ◽  
Birth Control ◽  
The United States ◽  
Protestant Churches ◽  
The People ◽  
Family Limitation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
First Time ◽  
Pastoral Practice

By the 1930s few Catholics in the United States could have been unaware of their church's absolute prohibition on contraception. A widely-publicized papal encyclical had spoken to the issue in 1930, even as various Protestant churches were for the first time giving a public blessing to the practice of birth control in marriage. Growing numbers of American Catholics had been exposed since at least 1920 to frank and vigorous preaching on the subject in the context of parish missions. (Missions are probably best understood as the Catholic analogue of a revival.) And by the early 1930s Catholic periodicals and pamphlets addressed the question of birth control more frequently and directly than ever before. As a Chicago Jesuit acknowledged in 1933, “Practically every priest who is close to the people admits that contraception is the hardest problem of the confessional today.” A major depression accounted in part for the hardness of the problem. But it was more fundamentally caused by the laity's heightened awareness of their church's stance on birth control and their growing consciousness of this position as a defining attribute of Catholic identity.

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