Stephen J Sifaneck
Biographic Data
| ID | 5237464 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen J Sifaneck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen J |
| FAMILY NAME | Sifaneck |
| SIGNATURE | SIFANECK S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Development and Research Institutes |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pills, Thrills and Bellyaches: Case Studies of Prescription Pill Use and Misuse among Marijuana/Blunt Smoking Middle Class Young Women
Recent survey research has documented important increases during the 2000s in the misuse and abuse of several prescription drugs (Vicodin, Percocet, Codeine, Dilaudid, Xanax, Klonopin, Valium, Ativan, Adderall, Ritalin, among others). This article focuses upon the patterns of pill use and misuse among young women who are middle-class white and college-educated, and they are also experienced marijuana users who report recreational consumption of o…
Cigars-for-Blunts: Choice of Tobacco Products by Blunt Smokers
An important part of blunt (marijuana in a cigar shell) smoking is the ritual of the preparation process and the selection of tobacco product for the blunt. This article explores reasons for selection from the different tobacco products available in the legal commercial market. Based upon three years of ethnographic research with 92 focal subjects, the analysis focuses upon the practical, subcultural, and symbolic reasons that blunt smokers give …
Sessions, Cyphers, and Parties: Settings for Informal Social Controls of Blunt Smoking
The importance of settings for marijuana use has been widely noted, but the way that informal social controls are organized to moderate the amounts consumed have not been well documented. A major ethnographic study of blunts/marijuana use in New York City observed several hundred marijuana users in group locations and conducted intensive interviews with 92 focal subjects. The vast majority of blunt smokers preferred to consume in a group setting.…
Social constructions of dependency by blunts smokers: Qualitative reports
Marijuana Argot As Subculture Threads
Marijuana-related argot provides socially constructed ways of talking, thinking, expressing, communicating and interacting among marijuana users and distributors. Such argot also provides the verbal threads by which the marijuana subculture integrates use practices among diverse individuals, groups and regions. An ethnographic study of blunt and marijuana users in New York City identified 180 argot words that are commonly used to maintain the sub…
The Ethnographic Accessing, Sampling and Screening of Hidden Populations: Heroin Sniffers in New York City
This article discusses various ways in which ethnographic methods were employed in a cohort study of HIV risk and transitions to injecting among non-injecting heroin users (NIUs), or ‘sniffers’, in New York City. In preparation for and in conjunction with an epidemiologic questionnaire survey and biological specimen collection, ethnographic methods were used to explore the meaning of non-injecting and injecting routes of heroin administration for…
Keeping off, stepping on and stepping off: The steppingstone theory reevaluated in the context of the Dutch cannabis experience
AUTHORS' NOTE: The authors are indebted to a large number of people in both the Netherlands and the United States who took the time to read and comment on drafts of this paper. Simon Stack provided continual editorial input. Dr. Adriaan C. M. Jansen of the University of Amsterdam, Bert Bieleman of Intraval, Groningen-Rotterdam, and Hans Dupont of the International Institute for Psycho-Social and Socio-Ecological Research in Maastricht provided in…
Cannabis in Amsterdam: A Geography of Hashish and Marijuana
Cannabis in Amsterdam: A Geography of Hashish and Marijuana ." Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 25(3), pp. 271–272
Marijuana Argot As Subculture Threads
Marijuana-related argot provides socially constructed ways of talking, thinking, expressing, communicating and interacting among marijuana users and distributors. Such argot also provides the verbal threads by which the marijuana subculture integrates use practices among diverse individuals, groups and regions. An ethnographic study of blunt and marijuana users in New York City identified 180 argot words that are commonly used to maintain the sub…
Pills, Thrills and Bellyaches: Case Studies of Prescription Pill Use and Misuse among Marijuana/Blunt Smoking Middle Class Young Women
Recent survey research has documented important increases during the 2000s in the misuse and abuse of several prescription drugs (Vicodin, Percocet, Codeine, Dilaudid, Xanax, Klonopin, Valium, Ativan, Adderall, Ritalin, among others). This article focuses upon the patterns of pill use and misuse among young women who are middle-class white and college-educated, and they are also experienced marijuana users who report recreational consumption of o…
Keeping off, stepping on and stepping off: The steppingstone theory reevaluated in the context of the Dutch cannabis experience
AUTHORS' NOTE: The authors are indebted to a large number of people in both the Netherlands and the United States who took the time to read and comment on drafts of this paper. Simon Stack provided continual editorial input. Dr. Adriaan C. M. Jansen of the University of Amsterdam, Bert Bieleman of Intraval, Groningen-Rotterdam, and Hans Dupont of the International Institute for Psycho-Social and Socio-Ecological Research in Maastricht provided in…
Cannabis in Amsterdam: A Geography of Hashish and Marijuana
Cannabis in Amsterdam: A Geography of Hashish and Marijuana ." Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 25(3), pp. 271–272
Keeping off, stepping on and stepping off: The steppingstone theory reevaluated in the context of the Dutch cannabis experience
AUTHORS' NOTE: The authors are indebted to a large number of people in both the Netherlands and the United States who took the time to read and comment on drafts of this paper. Simon Stack provided continual editorial input. Dr. Adriaan C. M. Jansen of the University of Amsterdam, Bert Bieleman of Intraval, Groningen-Rotterdam, and Hans Dupont of the International Institute for Psycho-Social and Socio-Ecological Research in Maastricht provided in…
The Ethnographic Accessing, Sampling and Screening of Hidden Populations: Heroin Sniffers in New York City
This article discusses various ways in which ethnographic methods were employed in a cohort study of HIV risk and transitions to injecting among non-injecting heroin users (NIUs), or ‘sniffers’, in New York City. In preparation for and in conjunction with an epidemiologic questionnaire survey and biological specimen collection, ethnographic methods were used to explore the meaning of non-injecting and injecting routes of heroin administration for…
Cigars-for-Blunts: Choice of Tobacco Products by Blunt Smokers
An important part of blunt (marijuana in a cigar shell) smoking is the ritual of the preparation process and the selection of tobacco product for the blunt. This article explores reasons for selection from the different tobacco products available in the legal commercial market. Based upon three years of ethnographic research with 92 focal subjects, the analysis focuses upon the practical, subcultural, and symbolic reasons that blunt smokers give …
Sessions, Cyphers, and Parties: Settings for Informal Social Controls of Blunt Smoking
The importance of settings for marijuana use has been widely noted, but the way that informal social controls are organized to moderate the amounts consumed have not been well documented. A major ethnographic study of blunts/marijuana use in New York City observed several hundred marijuana users in group locations and conducted intensive interviews with 92 focal subjects. The vast majority of blunt smokers preferred to consume in a group setting.…
Social constructions of dependency by blunts smokers: Qualitative reports
Marijuana Argot As Subculture Threads
Marijuana-related argot provides socially constructed ways of talking, thinking, expressing, communicating and interacting among marijuana users and distributors. Such argot also provides the verbal threads by which the marijuana subculture integrates use practices among diverse individuals, groups and regions. An ethnographic study of blunt and marijuana users in New York City identified 180 argot words that are commonly used to maintain the sub…
Pills, Thrills and Bellyaches: Case Studies of Prescription Pill Use and Misuse among Marijuana/Blunt Smoking Middle Class Young Women
Recent survey research has documented important increases during the 2000s in the misuse and abuse of several prescription drugs (Vicodin, Percocet, Codeine, Dilaudid, Xanax, Klonopin, Valium, Ativan, Adderall, Ritalin, among others). This article focuses upon the patterns of pill use and misuse among young women who are middle-class white and college-educated, and they are also experienced marijuana users who report recreational consumption of o…
Medicine (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (5 works) · Blunt (3 works) · Drug (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)