...Shama Gamkhar; Shao-Chee Sim Are the federal Alcohol and Drug Abuse (ADA) block grant funds substituting for or supplementing state and local government spending on substance abuse?Using panel data on state and local government substance abuse programs, this study explores the fiscal effects...

...James Christopher Anthony The Controlled Substances Act (CSA) is the prevailing “drug abuse” control statute in the United States. Its manifest objective is to prevent or reduce drug use's “substantial and detrimental effect on the health and general welfare of the American people.” Evaluating...

...David Mechanic Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 David Mechanic Rutgers University The initial Clinton health care reform proposal for the mental health/ substance abuse (MHISA...

...Jean Reith Schroedel; Paul Peretz In this paper we argue the value to policy research of taking a feminist perspective on policy issues. We show the development of fetal abuse as a policy issue and how the often unconscious patriarchal stance taken by those participating in the debate has led...

... with substance abuse disorders. The prevalence of these disorders is high, and these individuals often suffer from comorbid chronic medical and social conditions. This article examines the extent to which the nation's fourteen thousand specialty substance abuse treatment (SAT) organizations, which have a daily...

... choice. Purchasers have subsidized inefficient insurance designs in order to exploit tax and regulatory loopholes and to retain an image of corporate paternalism. America's health care system suffers from the public abuse of private interests and the private abuse of the public interest. © 2003 by Duke...

... on the intended services or use budgetary strategies to appear to be in compliance with maintenance-of-effort provisions but then reallocate block grant funds from the targeted program. We studied the effect of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health block grant program on state substance abuse expenditures...

... . Equality in America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Walzer , Michael . 1983 . Spheres of Justice. New York: Basic Books. Commentary State Health Policy Analysis: On the Abuse of Metaphor...

... Barbara J. Nelson, Making an issue of Chitd Abuse (Chicago: University of Chi- cago Press, 1984), 169 pp., $17.50 Almost daily we see on television or read in the newspaper accounts of emo- tional, often bitter political conflict over policy questions which were once the 408 Journal...

... psychosurgery for a wide variety of reasons. In some cases psychosurgery was administered to ease staffing problems, for experimental purposes, or simply out of sheer curiosity. Often the consent of patients or relatives was not obtained. This egregious abuse of psychiatric authority contributed to the critical...

...Nancy M. P. King; Wanda M. Hunter; Desmond K. Runyan Concerned about the possible detrimental impact of the investigative process and court proceedings on child victims of sexual abuse, many child advocates have proposed extensive evidentiary and procedural revisions of the court process. As part...

...William E. McAuliffe As we enter the 1990s drug abuse has once again become a major health concern, and for the first time the drug treatment field has had to address many of the policy, regulation, and planning issues resulting from cost inflation that have become commonplace in other parts...

... Review Essay Commentaries on the Uses and Abuses of Genetic Knowledge Ruth Hubbard and Elijah Wald. €xploding the Gene Myth: How Genetic Information Is Produced and Manipulated by Scientists, Physicians, Employers, Insurance Companies, Educators, and Law Enforcers. Boston: Beacon Press...

...Nelda McCall; Thomas Rice; Arden Hall This paper examines the effects of state regulations on the quality of insurance policies sold to Medicare beneficiaries and on the amount of sales abuse reported in the sale of such policies. State regulations regarding such policies relate to policy content...

... attention is being focused on the individual characteristics of participants themselves,particularly specific diagnoses that might reduce employability. This article focuses on substance abuse and mental health problems among single mothers and examines their relationship to welfare receipt. We analyze data...

..., and allied with advocates for the disabled, the antiabortion movement searched for a test case to guide through the courts. Antiabortion advocate Lawrence Washburn found such a case in Baby Jane Doe, who was being treated at Stony Brook Medical Center. The movement went on to amend the Child Abuse Act...

... are driven by concerns about cost control, the carriers' actual review process relies on aggregate utilization and spending targets that have little to do with clinical guidelines. The carriers' medical review rhetoric using the terms medically unnecessary and fraud and abuse as synonymsalso highlights...

.... The greatest impetus for the revised discourse, however, was the eruption of a “moral panic”over crack cocaine use. By linking fetal harm to substance abuse, the panic suggested it was in the public's interest to control the behavior of pregnant women. © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Alcoholic...

... to accurately budget program expenditures, simplify management, eliminate abusive practices directly linked to fee-for-service (e.g., billing for undelivered services or providing unnecessary care) and, most important, contain costs. At the same time it has promised to increase access to mainstream medicine...