Drug and Alcohol Studies (Volume 6: Current trends, continuing issues and new challenges)

VOLUME SIX: CURRENT TRENDS, CONTINUING ISSUES AND NEW CHALLENGES Toward a Global View of Alcohol, Tobacco, Cannabis and Cocaine Use Louisa Degenhardt et al Findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys Global Burden of Disease and Injury and Economic Cost Attributable to Alcohol Use and Alcohol-Use Disorders Jürgen Rehm et al Cannabis Supply and Demand Reduction Thoroddur Bjarnason, Andreea Steriu and Anna Kokkevi Evidence from the ESPAD Study of Adolescents in 31 European Countries Gender and Alcohol Consumption: Patterns from the Multinational Genacis Project Richard Wilsnack et al. Drugs and Development Merrill Singer The Global Impact of Drug Use and Trafficking on Social and Economic Development 'Idle and Disorderly' Khat Users in Western Uganda Susan Beckerleg Harm Reduction Axel Klein The Right Policy Approach for Africa? Alcohol Use and Its Consequences in South India K. Mohindra et al Views from a Marginalized Tribal Population Not Good Enough to Be Pregnant Sheigla Murphy and Marsha Rosenbaum Is Cannabis a Contributory Cause of Psychosis? Louisa Degenhardt and Wayne Hall Key Findings in A Report on Global Illicit Drug Markets, 1998-2007 Peter Reuter and Franz Trautmann Medicine and the Epidemic of Incarceration in the United States Josiah Rich, Sarah Wakeman and Samuel Dickman Waking up to Sleepiness Simon Williams et al Modafinil, the Media and the Pharmaceuticalization of Everyday/Night Life The Promotion and Marketing of OxyContin Art Van Zee Commercial Triumph, Public Health Tragedy Is Deep Brain Stimulation a Prospective 'Cure' for Addiction? Wayne Hall and Adrian Carter 'Executive Summary and Recommendations' and 'Introduction' in Our Invisible Addicts: First Report of the Older Persons' Substance Misuse Working Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Royal College of Psychiatrist

Drug and Alcohol Studies (Volume 1: Historical and Cultural Studies)

VOLUME ONE: HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL STUDIES Mr ATOD's Wild Ride David Courtwright What Do Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs Have in Common? Opium, Cocaine and Marijuana in American History David Musto Morality and Medical Science Virginia Berridge Concepts of Narcotic Addiction in Britain, 1820-1926 The Discovery of Addiction Harry Levine Changing Conceptions of Habitual Drunkenness in America Stable Force in a Storm Douglas Kinder and William Walker III Harry J. Aslinger and United States Narcotic Policy, 1930-1962 Alcohol and the State in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 Hermann Fahrenkrug Coercion and Its Unintended Consequences Alfred McCoy A Study of Heroin Trafficking in South-East and South-West Asia Intoxication and Bad Behaviour Robin Room Understanding Cultural Differences in the Link Slavery from within Mariana Valverde The Invention of Alcoholism and the Question of Free Will Narcotic Use in South-East Asia and afterward Lee Robins, John Helzer and Darlene Davis An Interview Study of 898 Vietnam Returnees New Perspectives on the 'Prohibition Experiment' of the 1920s J. Burnham Opium Smoking in Late Imperial China R. Newman A Reconsideration Between Culture and Nature Pekka Sulkunen Intoxication in Cultural Studies of Alcohol and Drug Us

Drug and Alcohol Studies (Volume 5: Interventions)

VOLUME FIVE: INTERVENTIONS Natural Recovery from Alcohol Problems Harald Klingemann School-Based Programmes to Prevent Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Use Gilbert Botvin and Kenneth Griffin Community Prevention of Alcohol Problems Harold Holder Can Screening and Brief Intervention Lead to Population-Level Reductions in Alcohol-Related Harm? Nick Heather Sharpening the Focus of Alcohol Policy from Aggregate Consumption to Harm and Risk Reduction Tim Stockwell et al A Review of the Efficacy and Effectiveness of Harm Reduction Strategies for Alcohol, Tobacco and Illicit Drugs Alison Ritter and Jacqui Cameron 10 Years of Experience with Needle and Syringe Exchange Programmes in European Prisons Heino Stover and Joachim Nelles Motivational Interviewing William Miller Research, Practice and Puzzles Controlled Drinking after 25 Years Mark Sobell and Linda Sobell How Important Was the Great Debate? Matching Alcoholism Treatment to Client Heterogeneity Project MATCH Research Group Project MATCH Post-Treatment Drinking Outcomes How Can Cognitive Therapy Help? Aaron Beck et al A Medical Treatment for Diacetylmorphine (Heroin) Addiction Vincent Dole and Marie Nyswander A Clinical Trial with Methadone Hydrochloride Is Treatment for Substance Abuse Effective? A. Thomas McLellan et al From Morphine Clinics to Buprenorphine Jerome Jaffe and Charles O'Keeffe Regulating Opioid Agonist Treatment of Addiction in the United States Heroin-Assisted Treatment (HAT) a Decade Later Benedikt Fischer et al A Brief Update on Science and Politic

Developments in Stochastic Coupled Cluster Theory: The initiator approximation and application to the Uniform Electron Gas

We describe further details of the Stochastic Coupled Cluster method and a diagnostic of such calculations, the shoulder height, akin to the plateau found in Full Configuration Interaction Quantum Monte Carlo. We describe an initiator modification to Stochastic Coupled Cluster Theory and show that initiator calculations can be extrapolated to the unbiased limit. We apply this method to the 3D 14-electron uniform electron gas and present complete basis set limit values of the CCSD and previously unattainable CCSDT correlation energies for up to rs = 2, showing a requirement to include triple excitations to accurately calculate energies at high densities.Comment: 14 pages, 12 figure

Fracture and fatigue strength of grouted macadams

Grouted macadams form a class of material which provides significant advantages in comparison to both concrete and conventional asphalt, having both rut resistance and a degree of flexibility. This paper presents a series of laboratory tests on several grouted macadam mixtures, for stiffness, fatigue and low temperature fracture. The variables explored include binder grade and content, aggregate size and gradation, and grout strength. Although the material is found to perform fundamentally as an asphalt, there are several significant differences in the form of fatigue behavior found compared to that usually expected from an asphalt. In particular the effect of varying binder content is found to be markedly different. The results are discussed in terms of optimizing mixture design in order to obtain the most desirable combination of properties (stiffness, fatigue strength, low temperature fracture resistance). Discussion is also presented regarding the possible role of grouted macadams as base or binder courses within highway pavements, and the conclusion is drawn that they are likely to provide an economical solution in many circumstances owing to their superior mechanical properties

Metastable Quantum Phase Transitions in a Periodic One-dimensional Bose Gas: Mean-Field and Bogoliubov Analyses

We generalize the concept of quantum phase transitions, which is conventionally defined for a ground state and usually applied in the thermodynamic limit, to one for \emph{metastable states} in \emph{finite size systems}. In particular, we treat the one-dimensional Bose gas on a ring in the presence of both interactions and rotation. To support our study, we bring to bear mean-field theory, i.e., the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, and linear perturbation or Bogoliubov-de Gennes theory. Both methods give a consistent result in the weakly interacting regime: there exist \emph{two topologically distinct quantum phases}. The first is the typical picture of superfluidity in a Bose-Einstein condensate on a ring: average angular momentum is quantized and the superflow is uniform. The second is new: one or more dark solitons appear as stationary states, breaking the symmetry, the average angular momentum becomes a continuous quantity, and the phase of the condensate can be continuously wound and unwound