Marsha Rosenbaum
Biographic Data
| ID | 3887113 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marsha Rosenbaum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marsha |
| FAMILY NAME | Rosenbaum |
| SIGNATURE | ROSENBAUM M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Scientific Analysis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Dr. Rosenbaum Responds
Thank you, editors at the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, for the opportunity to address some of the numerous misrepresentations and misguided criticisms levied by Kevin Sabet and his protege, Theod
New Perspectives on Drug Education/Prevention
In 2014, Oregon, Alaska, and the District of Columbia joined Colorado and Washington as voters approved initiatives to legally regulate and tax marijuana for adults. Other states, including California, are likely to follow in 2016. While none of these new laws allow sales to minors, there is widespread concern about the potential impact of these reforms on teenagers. Many worry that legalization will "send the wrong message," and increase access …
Understanding Marijuana
Ecstasy
MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine) was first used as a legal adjunct to psychotherapy in the 1970s. By the early 1980s, "Ecstasy" had become a tiny part of the recreational American drug scene, and was ultimately criminalized in 1986. For a decade use continued, but remained quiet. By the end of the 1990s, increased supply, demand, seizures of pills, arrests of distributors associated with organized crime, adverse reactions, and government …
Pregnant Women on Drugs
Just Say Know” to Teenagers and Marijuana
Despite increasing expenditures on prevention, government survey after survey indicates that marijuana use--which comprises 90% of illicit drug use--has not been eradicated among teenagers. Today's adolescents have been exposed to the largest dose of prevention in our history. After three decades of such efforts, one must ask why young people continue to use marijuana, and why drug education has failed to bring about a marijuana-free teenage Amer…
The Guru Papers
(1998). The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs: Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 105-106
Treatment as Harm Reduction, Defunding as Harm Maximization
Despite numerous research studies demonstrating the efficacy of methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) in general and the value of retention in particular, the increasing defunding of this modality has compromised its potential. From 1990 to 1995 the lead author conducted a longitudinal research project to determine the impact of the cost of treatment on 233 San Francisco Bay Area study participants seeking, enrolled in, or defunded from MMT. This…
Violence
We investigate the relationships between violence, drug use and methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) for women injection drug users (IDUs). The data presented here come from a longitudinal study of 233 IDUs both in and out of MMT in the San Francisco Bay Area. Each was interviewed five times over a period of three years, both qualitatively and quantitatively. Using grounded theory principals, we analyze 55 women's accounts of violence. We find t…
The Demedicalization of Methadone Maintenance
The institution of methadone maintenance as a treatment modality for heroin addiction in the mid-1960s was part of the growing medicalization of social problems in the United States. The definition of deviance as "sickness" rather than "badness" set the stage for America's first harm-reduction strategy. By the 1970s methadone maintenance was seen as a way to reduce drug-related crime, and federally funded programs proliferated. Accompanying metha…
Pursuit of Ecstasy
The rhetoric of reproduction
Drug Treatment on Demand—Not
Drug treatment on demand, appropriate and affordable drug treatment for injection drug users who are "ready" to enter a program, is a humane approach to drug treatment services and an important mechanism to halt the spread of HIV. However, drug treatment on demand is not a reality in the United States. In fact, due to funding cuts at federal, state, and local levels, entry into drug treatment programs has become increasingly more difficult over t…
Mothering on crack cocaine
Leading by Losing
Women who use crack cocaine have been characterized as promiscuous and careless about unintended pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases. To evaluate the validity of these claims, we used the grounded theory approach to analyze transcripts from 100 interviews with women crack users, exploring their experiences and views on sexuality, fertility, contraception, and pregnancy-related decisions. Many women told of unforeseen events in the social w…
Women Who Use Cocaine Too Much
Monique (an African-American 19-year-old) and Becky (a white 21-year-old) were interviewed as part of a NIDA-funded study of women and cocaine. Although they were not necessarily typical, they do illustrate some of the differences among women who use cocaine. Despite the fact that they were close in age and both used cocaine, their scenarios and outcomes were very different, as one was a white middle-class woman and the other was an underclass wo…
Alcohol and Drugs Are Women's Issues. Volume 1
Staying Off Methadone Maintenance
Methadone maintenance is again receiving attention as an intervention for needle use/sharing among intravenous drug users. A major criticism is that methadone has its own addictive properties; consequently, the client is unable to detoxify and stay off opioids permanently. Study respondents had been off methadone for several years and offered their strategies for success. Motivating forces included the freedom and rewards, such as pride and respe…
Money for Methadone II
Money for Methadone
Not the Picture of Health
(1987). Not the Picture of Health: Women on Methadone. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs: Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 217-226
Chocolate to Morphine
Chocolate to Morphine: Understanding Mind-Acting Drugs ." Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 15(4), pp. 331–332
Heroin, Deviance and Morality
Examines the data on drug abuse in the late Sixties and early Seventies and concludes that there was probably no significant increase in the use of heroin. The crisis of drug abuse that many Americans perceived at the time was in fact a crisis of politics and morality. These findings lead the authors to fascinating and important revisions of theories of labelling and deviance. 'The book has a broad perspective and, through analytical and theoreti…
Treatment Services for Drug Dependent Women. Volume 1
Women on heroin
Mothering on crack cocaine
Leading by Losing
Women who use crack cocaine have been characterized as promiscuous and careless about unintended pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases. To evaluate the validity of these claims, we used the grounded theory approach to analyze transcripts from 100 interviews with women crack users, exploring their experiences and views on sexuality, fertility, contraception, and pregnancy-related decisions. Many women told of unforeseen events in the social w…
Women Addicts' Experience of the Heroin World
Women on heroin
Getting the Treatment
Women Addicts' Experience of the Heroin World
Treatment Services for Drug Dependent Women. Volume 1
Chocolate to Morphine
Chocolate to Morphine: Understanding Mind-Acting Drugs ." Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 15(4), pp. 331–332
Heroin, Deviance and Morality
Examines the data on drug abuse in the late Sixties and early Seventies and concludes that there was probably no significant increase in the use of heroin. The crisis of drug abuse that many Americans perceived at the time was in fact a crisis of politics and morality. These findings lead the authors to fascinating and important revisions of theories of labelling and deviance. 'The book has a broad perspective and, through analytical and theoreti…
Money for Methadone
Not the Picture of Health
(1987). Not the Picture of Health: Women on Methadone. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs: Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 217-226
Money for Methadone II
Alcohol and Drugs Are Women's Issues. Volume 1
Staying Off Methadone Maintenance
Methadone maintenance is again receiving attention as an intervention for needle use/sharing among intravenous drug users. A major criticism is that methadone has its own addictive properties; consequently, the client is unable to detoxify and stay off opioids permanently. Study respondents had been off methadone for several years and offered their strategies for success. Motivating forces included the freedom and rewards, such as pride and respe…
Women Who Use Cocaine Too Much
Monique (an African-American 19-year-old) and Becky (a white 21-year-old) were interviewed as part of a NIDA-funded study of women and cocaine. Although they were not necessarily typical, they do illustrate some of the differences among women who use cocaine. Despite the fact that they were close in age and both used cocaine, their scenarios and outcomes were very different, as one was a white middle-class woman and the other was an underclass wo…
Drug Treatment on Demand—Not
Drug treatment on demand, appropriate and affordable drug treatment for injection drug users who are "ready" to enter a program, is a humane approach to drug treatment services and an important mechanism to halt the spread of HIV. However, drug treatment on demand is not a reality in the United States. In fact, due to funding cuts at federal, state, and local levels, entry into drug treatment programs has become increasingly more difficult over t…
Mothering on crack cocaine
Leading by Losing
Women who use crack cocaine have been characterized as promiscuous and careless about unintended pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases. To evaluate the validity of these claims, we used the grounded theory approach to analyze transcripts from 100 interviews with women crack users, exploring their experiences and views on sexuality, fertility, contraception, and pregnancy-related decisions. Many women told of unforeseen events in the social w…
The Demedicalization of Methadone Maintenance
The institution of methadone maintenance as a treatment modality for heroin addiction in the mid-1960s was part of the growing medicalization of social problems in the United States. The definition of deviance as "sickness" rather than "badness" set the stage for America's first harm-reduction strategy. By the 1970s methadone maintenance was seen as a way to reduce drug-related crime, and federally funded programs proliferated. Accompanying metha…
Pursuit of Ecstasy
The rhetoric of reproduction
Treatment as Harm Reduction, Defunding as Harm Maximization
Despite numerous research studies demonstrating the efficacy of methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) in general and the value of retention in particular, the increasing defunding of this modality has compromised its potential. From 1990 to 1995 the lead author conducted a longitudinal research project to determine the impact of the cost of treatment on 233 San Francisco Bay Area study participants seeking, enrolled in, or defunded from MMT. This…
Violence
We investigate the relationships between violence, drug use and methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) for women injection drug users (IDUs). The data presented here come from a longitudinal study of 233 IDUs both in and out of MMT in the San Francisco Bay Area. Each was interviewed five times over a period of three years, both qualitatively and quantitatively. Using grounded theory principals, we analyze 55 women's accounts of violence. We find t…
Just Say Know” to Teenagers and Marijuana
Despite increasing expenditures on prevention, government survey after survey indicates that marijuana use--which comprises 90% of illicit drug use--has not been eradicated among teenagers. Today's adolescents have been exposed to the largest dose of prevention in our history. After three decades of such efforts, one must ask why young people continue to use marijuana, and why drug education has failed to bring about a marijuana-free teenage Amer…
The Guru Papers
(1998). The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs: Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 105-106
Pregnant Women on Drugs
Ecstasy
MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine) was first used as a legal adjunct to psychotherapy in the 1970s. By the early 1980s, "Ecstasy" had become a tiny part of the recreational American drug scene, and was ultimately criminalized in 1986. For a decade use continued, but remained quiet. By the end of the 1990s, increased supply, demand, seizures of pills, arrests of distributors associated with organized crime, adverse reactions, and government …
Understanding Marijuana
Psychology (22 works) · Psychiatry (19 works) · Medicine (16 works) · Criminology (10 works) · Methadone (8 works) · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (8 works) · Drug (7 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (7 works) · Methadone maintenance (7 works) · Political science (7 works)