Jim Baumohl
Biographic Data
| ID | 132913 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jim Baumohl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jim |
| FAMILY NAME | Baumohl |
| SIGNATURE | BAUMOHL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bryn Mawr College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 141 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Making It Work”: Accommodation and Resistance to Federal Policy in a Homelessness Continuum of Care
This is a case study of the development of a rural continuum of care (CoC) program funded by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to create a coherent system of services and planning processes to end homelessness. It concerns how the founding local coalition of agencies managed internal conflicts about HUD’s changing programmatic and administrative requirements from 1994 to 2015. It addresses the coalition’s relationship with …
The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business
David T. Courtwright's The Age of Addiction explains how societies worldwide became sites of obsessions born of pleasure seeking. Fundamental here is “limbic capitalism,” joined as an “evil twin” to market economies when science and technology made possible “addictive engineering” (p. 211). Especially in the last century, savvy industries promoted global excess, “turning [the world's] sorrows into profit” in concert with “complicit governments an…
External Review Board
Where Have All the Homeless Gone? The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis by Anthony Marcus
Termination of Supplemental Security Income Benefits for Drug Addiction and Alcoholism: Results of a Longitudinal Study of the Effects on Former Beneficiaries
This article reviews the results of a multisite cohort study on effects of terminating Supplemental Security Income benefits for drug addiction and alcoholism. Within 2 years of the program’s termination, 35–43 percent of participants requalified for disability benefits for another impairment. Regardless of requalification status, substance abuse treatment participation declined sharply and illegal drug use was prevalent. Although many of those w…
The Bottom Line: Employment and Barriers to Work among Former SSI DA&A Beneficiaries
The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program for drug addicts and alcoholics (DA&A beneficiaries) ended in January 1997 without any special effort to create employment for those who lost benefits. Relying on data from a nine-site, two-year panel study of 1,764 former DA&A recipients and detailed semi structured interviews with subsamples in four sites, this paper examines employment outcomes and barriers to employment among 611 respondents who …
Drink, Drugs and Disability: An Introduction to the Controversy
This paper reviews the history of the drug addiction and alcoholism (DA&A) program within Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and the controversies that dogged the years before its termination in 1996. The DA&A program began in 1972, and for reasons understood early on, it was susceptible to rapid growth and discrediting scandal. Through the mid-1980s, the program remained very small, mainly because of a conservative judicial climate that limited …
Drug Treatment Participation and Retention Rates among Former Recipients of Supplemental Security Income for Drug Addiction and Alcoholism
This study examined drug treatment participation and retention rates for a multisite sample of 1,586 former recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for drug addiction and alcoholism (DA&A). Fewer than half of the sample were complying with the DA&A program treatment mandate at the time the program was terminated by federal legislation in January 1997. For all forms of treatment, both participation and retention rates declined steadily th…
Substance Abuse and Welfare Policy at the New Century
Drawing on findings from the SSI Study and other research, this paper takes up various policy questions fundamental to any welfare program for substance abusers. The paper considers the place of disability benefits in the U.S. system of categorical aid and the problems raised by substance abuse for the disability category. It discusses the desirable objectives of a welfare program for substance abusers and the various mechanisms by which they mig…
Decisions to Appeal, Decisions to Approve: Requalification for SSI by Former DA&A Beneficiaries
Recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Drug Addiction and Alcoholism (DA&A) benefits had the opportunity to appeal their termination during the six months prior to the end of the DA&A program in January 1997. In this study, we examined factors that affected transition from the DA&A program to continuing SSI benefits based on other qualifying impairments. We treated requalification for SSI as the outcome of two processes: a beneficiary's…
The Methodology of the Multi-Site Study of the Termination of Supplemental Security Income Benefits for Drug Addicts and Alcoholics
This paper describes the quantitative and qualitative methodologies used in a nine-site, two-year study of the effects of terminating Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for drug addiction and alcoholism (DA&A). The quantitative component of the study involved a longitudinal survey that collected data on 1,744 former DA&A recipients, representing about one-fourth of the national population, and achieved an aggregate follow-up rate of 82%. Despite …
Now Invited to Testify: Former Beneficiaries Appraise the Ssi drug Addiction and Alcoholism Program
As part of the larger SSI Study, we conducted detailed semistructured interviews with 156 respondents in four sites. They spoke at length about matters of legislative concern during the reform and subsequent abolition of the drug addiction and alcoholism (DA&A) program. Respondents were quite aware of the problems considered by Congress. Some acknowledged using SSI payments to buy alcohol and other drugs, and a few claimed to have squandered larg…
Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World
In Forces of Habit, David T. Courtwright harvests the multidisciplinary literature of the drug field and distills it with wit and historical acumen to produce the best single book we have on the history of psychoactive substances, their use and regulation. It is not the only book to read on the subject, but Forces of Habit provides the neophyte with a sophisticated place to begin and the teacher with a coherent overview from which to digress. Few…
Maintaining Orthodoxy: The Depression-Era Struggle over Morphine Maintenance in California
With the closure of the Shreveport Clinic in 1923, the United States entered a 40-year period during which legal opiate maintenance was limited to a small number of registered medical addicts, most of them cancer patients. Addicts were demonized, hounded by law enforcement personnel, and rarely treated outside of jails. Abstinence was the only legitimate goal of treatment. Quite correctly, historians regard the period between the mid-1920s and th…
Already Hit Bottom: General Assistance, Welfare Retrenchment, and Single Male Migration
The claim is often made that welfare recipients move to states where benefits are more readily available in more generous amounts. To test that claim, this study uses data on state General Assistance (GA) programs, as well as data on single men from the Public Use Microdata Set of the 1990 U.S. Census. We find only slight evidence that men who lack access to GA seek it elsewhere, and overall we find that the availability of GA has no more than a …
Books: Review/commentary: The Last Resort: Scenes from a Transient Hotel
With the Great Depression, the modest workingmen's hotels of downtown America began a decline into disrepair and disrepute. After World War II, local, state, and federal policy encouraged their elimination from the housing stock, and the old hulks began to slump in rows before the wrecking ball. But poverty and housing activists of the 1960s brought the plight of hotel residents to Congressional attention, and in 1970 the Uniform Relocation Act s…
Homelessness in America
Building systems to manage inebriates: The divergent paths of California and Massachusetts, 1891–1920
Held in Abeyance: Rethinking Homelessness and Advocacy
Profits, Power, and Prohibition: Alcohol Reform and the Industrializing of America, 1800-1930
Seeking Person‐Environment Fit in Community Care Placement
Large numbers of patients leave mental hospitals to become residents of community‐based sheltered‐care facilities, yet little is known about how they use particular local environments to satisfy their needs and wants. This paper considers a crucial issue in community care placement, person‐environment fit, using survey data from interviews with 397 residents in 211 sheltered‐care facilities, drawn from 157 census tracts in California. It studies …
Factors in the receipt of therapeuticassistance in community care
Factors in the receipt of therapeutic assistance in community care
Neighborhood Types and Community Reaction to the Mentally Ill: A Paradox of Intensity
Steven P. Segal, Jim Baumohl, Edwin W. Moyles, Neighborhood Types and Community Reaction to the Mentally Ill: A Paradox of Intensity, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Dec., 1980), pp. 345-359
Falling through the Cracks: Mental Disorder and Social Margin in a Young Vagrant Population
Twenty-two percent of a young vagrant population reported on in this study, and believed to be representative of similar groups in many American cities, have been hospitalized for psychological disorder. These young mentally disordered vagrants are the most marginal members of the vagrant subculture, lacking social margin (i.e. resources, relationships, and a credible identity) with their families, community services and their peers. Their critic…
Falling through the Cracks: Mental Disorder and Social Margin in a Young Vagrant Population
Twenty-two percent of a young vagrant population reported on in this study, and believed to be representative of similar groups in many American cities, have been hospitalized for psychological disorder. These young mentally disordered vagrants are the most marginal members of the vagrant subculture, lacking social margin (i.e. resources, relationships, and a credible identity) with their families, community services and their peers. Their critic…
Neighborhood Types and Community Reaction to the Mentally Ill: A Paradox of Intensity
Steven P. Segal, Jim Baumohl, Edwin W. Moyles, Neighborhood Types and Community Reaction to the Mentally Ill: A Paradox of Intensity, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Dec., 1980), pp. 345-359
Held in Abeyance: Rethinking Homelessness and Advocacy
Drink, Drugs and Disability: An Introduction to the Controversy
This paper reviews the history of the drug addiction and alcoholism (DA&A) program within Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and the controversies that dogged the years before its termination in 1996. The DA&A program began in 1972, and for reasons understood early on, it was susceptible to rapid growth and discrediting scandal. Through the mid-1980s, the program remained very small, mainly because of a conservative judicial climate that limited …
The Methodology of the Multi-Site Study of the Termination of Supplemental Security Income Benefits for Drug Addicts and Alcoholics
This paper describes the quantitative and qualitative methodologies used in a nine-site, two-year study of the effects of terminating Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for drug addiction and alcoholism (DA&A). The quantitative component of the study involved a longitudinal survey that collected data on 1,744 former DA&A recipients, representing about one-fourth of the national population, and achieved an aggregate follow-up rate of 82%. Despite …
The Bottom Line: Employment and Barriers to Work among Former SSI DA&A Beneficiaries
The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program for drug addicts and alcoholics (DA&A beneficiaries) ended in January 1997 without any special effort to create employment for those who lost benefits. Relying on data from a nine-site, two-year panel study of 1,764 former DA&A recipients and detailed semi structured interviews with subsamples in four sites, this paper examines employment outcomes and barriers to employment among 611 respondents who …
Now Invited to Testify: Former Beneficiaries Appraise the Ssi drug Addiction and Alcoholism Program
As part of the larger SSI Study, we conducted detailed semistructured interviews with 156 respondents in four sites. They spoke at length about matters of legislative concern during the reform and subsequent abolition of the drug addiction and alcoholism (DA&A) program. Respondents were quite aware of the problems considered by Congress. Some acknowledged using SSI payments to buy alcohol and other drugs, and a few claimed to have squandered larg…
Seeking Person‐Environment Fit in Community Care Placement
Large numbers of patients leave mental hospitals to become residents of community‐based sheltered‐care facilities, yet little is known about how they use particular local environments to satisfy their needs and wants. This paper considers a crucial issue in community care placement, person‐environment fit, using survey data from interviews with 397 residents in 211 sheltered‐care facilities, drawn from 157 census tracts in California. It studies …
Decisions to Appeal, Decisions to Approve: Requalification for SSI by Former DA&A Beneficiaries
Recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Drug Addiction and Alcoholism (DA&A) benefits had the opportunity to appeal their termination during the six months prior to the end of the DA&A program in January 1997. In this study, we examined factors that affected transition from the DA&A program to continuing SSI benefits based on other qualifying impairments. We treated requalification for SSI as the outcome of two processes: a beneficiary's…
Drug Treatment Participation and Retention Rates among Former Recipients of Supplemental Security Income for Drug Addiction and Alcoholism
This study examined drug treatment participation and retention rates for a multisite sample of 1,586 former recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for drug addiction and alcoholism (DA&A). Fewer than half of the sample were complying with the DA&A program treatment mandate at the time the program was terminated by federal legislation in January 1997. For all forms of treatment, both participation and retention rates declined steadily th…
Building systems to manage inebriates: The divergent paths of California and Massachusetts, 1891–1920
Substance Abuse and Welfare Policy at the New Century
Drawing on findings from the SSI Study and other research, this paper takes up various policy questions fundamental to any welfare program for substance abusers. The paper considers the place of disability benefits in the U.S. system of categorical aid and the problems raised by substance abuse for the disability category. It discusses the desirable objectives of a welfare program for substance abusers and the various mechanisms by which they mig…
Making It Work”: Accommodation and Resistance to Federal Policy in a Homelessness Continuum of Care
This is a case study of the development of a rural continuum of care (CoC) program funded by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to create a coherent system of services and planning processes to end homelessness. It concerns how the founding local coalition of agencies managed internal conflicts about HUD’s changing programmatic and administrative requirements from 1994 to 2015. It addresses the coalition’s relationship with …
Where Have All the Homeless Gone? The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis by Anthony Marcus
Termination of Supplemental Security Income Benefits for Drug Addiction and Alcoholism: Results of a Longitudinal Study of the Effects on Former Beneficiaries
This article reviews the results of a multisite cohort study on effects of terminating Supplemental Security Income benefits for drug addiction and alcoholism. Within 2 years of the program’s termination, 35–43 percent of participants requalified for disability benefits for another impairment. Regardless of requalification status, substance abuse treatment participation declined sharply and illegal drug use was prevalent. Although many of those w…
Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World
In Forces of Habit, David T. Courtwright harvests the multidisciplinary literature of the drug field and distills it with wit and historical acumen to produce the best single book we have on the history of psychoactive substances, their use and regulation. It is not the only book to read on the subject, but Forces of Habit provides the neophyte with a sophisticated place to begin and the teacher with a coherent overview from which to digress. Few…
Already Hit Bottom: General Assistance, Welfare Retrenchment, and Single Male Migration
The claim is often made that welfare recipients move to states where benefits are more readily available in more generous amounts. To test that claim, this study uses data on state General Assistance (GA) programs, as well as data on single men from the Public Use Microdata Set of the 1990 U.S. Census. We find only slight evidence that men who lack access to GA seek it elsewhere, and overall we find that the availability of GA has no more than a …
Falling through the Cracks: Mental Disorder and Social Margin in a Young Vagrant Population
Twenty-two percent of a young vagrant population reported on in this study, and believed to be representative of similar groups in many American cities, have been hospitalized for psychological disorder. These young mentally disordered vagrants are the most marginal members of the vagrant subculture, lacking social margin (i.e. resources, relationships, and a credible identity) with their families, community services and their peers. Their critic…
Factors in the receipt of therapeuticassistance in community care
Factors in the receipt of therapeutic assistance in community care
Neighborhood Types and Community Reaction to the Mentally Ill: A Paradox of Intensity
Steven P. Segal, Jim Baumohl, Edwin W. Moyles, Neighborhood Types and Community Reaction to the Mentally Ill: A Paradox of Intensity, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Dec., 1980), pp. 345-359
Seeking Person‐Environment Fit in Community Care Placement
Large numbers of patients leave mental hospitals to become residents of community‐based sheltered‐care facilities, yet little is known about how they use particular local environments to satisfy their needs and wants. This paper considers a crucial issue in community care placement, person‐environment fit, using survey data from interviews with 397 residents in 211 sheltered‐care facilities, drawn from 157 census tracts in California. It studies …
Profits, Power, and Prohibition: Alcohol Reform and the Industrializing of America, 1800-1930
Building systems to manage inebriates: The divergent paths of California and Massachusetts, 1891–1920
Held in Abeyance: Rethinking Homelessness and Advocacy
Books: Review/commentary: The Last Resort: Scenes from a Transient Hotel
With the Great Depression, the modest workingmen's hotels of downtown America began a decline into disrepair and disrepute. After World War II, local, state, and federal policy encouraged their elimination from the housing stock, and the old hulks began to slump in rows before the wrecking ball. But poverty and housing activists of the 1960s brought the plight of hotel residents to Congressional attention, and in 1970 the Uniform Relocation Act s…
Homelessness in America
Already Hit Bottom: General Assistance, Welfare Retrenchment, and Single Male Migration
The claim is often made that welfare recipients move to states where benefits are more readily available in more generous amounts. To test that claim, this study uses data on state General Assistance (GA) programs, as well as data on single men from the Public Use Microdata Set of the 1990 U.S. Census. We find only slight evidence that men who lack access to GA seek it elsewhere, and overall we find that the availability of GA has no more than a …
Maintaining Orthodoxy: The Depression-Era Struggle over Morphine Maintenance in California
With the closure of the Shreveport Clinic in 1923, the United States entered a 40-year period during which legal opiate maintenance was limited to a small number of registered medical addicts, most of them cancer patients. Addicts were demonized, hounded by law enforcement personnel, and rarely treated outside of jails. Abstinence was the only legitimate goal of treatment. Quite correctly, historians regard the period between the mid-1920s and th…
Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World
In Forces of Habit, David T. Courtwright harvests the multidisciplinary literature of the drug field and distills it with wit and historical acumen to produce the best single book we have on the history of psychoactive substances, their use and regulation. It is not the only book to read on the subject, but Forces of Habit provides the neophyte with a sophisticated place to begin and the teacher with a coherent overview from which to digress. Few…
The Bottom Line: Employment and Barriers to Work among Former SSI DA&A Beneficiaries
The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program for drug addicts and alcoholics (DA&A beneficiaries) ended in January 1997 without any special effort to create employment for those who lost benefits. Relying on data from a nine-site, two-year panel study of 1,764 former DA&A recipients and detailed semi structured interviews with subsamples in four sites, this paper examines employment outcomes and barriers to employment among 611 respondents who …
Drink, Drugs and Disability: An Introduction to the Controversy
This paper reviews the history of the drug addiction and alcoholism (DA&A) program within Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and the controversies that dogged the years before its termination in 1996. The DA&A program began in 1972, and for reasons understood early on, it was susceptible to rapid growth and discrediting scandal. Through the mid-1980s, the program remained very small, mainly because of a conservative judicial climate that limited …
Drug Treatment Participation and Retention Rates among Former Recipients of Supplemental Security Income for Drug Addiction and Alcoholism
This study examined drug treatment participation and retention rates for a multisite sample of 1,586 former recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for drug addiction and alcoholism (DA&A). Fewer than half of the sample were complying with the DA&A program treatment mandate at the time the program was terminated by federal legislation in January 1997. For all forms of treatment, both participation and retention rates declined steadily th…
Substance Abuse and Welfare Policy at the New Century
Drawing on findings from the SSI Study and other research, this paper takes up various policy questions fundamental to any welfare program for substance abusers. The paper considers the place of disability benefits in the U.S. system of categorical aid and the problems raised by substance abuse for the disability category. It discusses the desirable objectives of a welfare program for substance abusers and the various mechanisms by which they mig…
Decisions to Appeal, Decisions to Approve: Requalification for SSI by Former DA&A Beneficiaries
Recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Drug Addiction and Alcoholism (DA&A) benefits had the opportunity to appeal their termination during the six months prior to the end of the DA&A program in January 1997. In this study, we examined factors that affected transition from the DA&A program to continuing SSI benefits based on other qualifying impairments. We treated requalification for SSI as the outcome of two processes: a beneficiary's…
The Methodology of the Multi-Site Study of the Termination of Supplemental Security Income Benefits for Drug Addicts and Alcoholics
This paper describes the quantitative and qualitative methodologies used in a nine-site, two-year study of the effects of terminating Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for drug addiction and alcoholism (DA&A). The quantitative component of the study involved a longitudinal survey that collected data on 1,744 former DA&A recipients, representing about one-fourth of the national population, and achieved an aggregate follow-up rate of 82%. Despite …
Now Invited to Testify: Former Beneficiaries Appraise the Ssi drug Addiction and Alcoholism Program
As part of the larger SSI Study, we conducted detailed semistructured interviews with 156 respondents in four sites. They spoke at length about matters of legislative concern during the reform and subsequent abolition of the drug addiction and alcoholism (DA&A) program. Respondents were quite aware of the problems considered by Congress. Some acknowledged using SSI payments to buy alcohol and other drugs, and a few claimed to have squandered larg…
Termination of Supplemental Security Income Benefits for Drug Addiction and Alcoholism: Results of a Longitudinal Study of the Effects on Former Beneficiaries
This article reviews the results of a multisite cohort study on effects of terminating Supplemental Security Income benefits for drug addiction and alcoholism. Within 2 years of the program’s termination, 35–43 percent of participants requalified for disability benefits for another impairment. Regardless of requalification status, substance abuse treatment participation declined sharply and illegal drug use was prevalent. Although many of those w…
Where Have All the Homeless Gone? The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis by Anthony Marcus
External Review Board
The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business
David T. Courtwright's The Age of Addiction explains how societies worldwide became sites of obsessions born of pleasure seeking. Fundamental here is “limbic capitalism,” joined as an “evil twin” to market economies when science and technology made possible “addictive engineering” (p. 211). Especially in the last century, savvy industries promoted global excess, “turning [the world's] sorrows into profit” in concert with “complicit governments an…
Making It Work”: Accommodation and Resistance to Federal Policy in a Homelessness Continuum of Care
This is a case study of the development of a rural continuum of care (CoC) program funded by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to create a coherent system of services and planning processes to end homelessness. It concerns how the founding local coalition of agencies managed internal conflicts about HUD’s changing programmatic and administrative requirements from 1994 to 2015. It addresses the coalition’s relationship with …
Political science (17 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (12 works) · Psychiatry (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Economics (6 works)