Table of Contents

Volume 33, Number 2

April - June 2001

Effects of High-Dose Heroin versus Morphine in Intravenous Drug Users:

A Randomised Double-Blind Crossover Study

Robert B. Haemmig, M.D. & Wolfgang Tschacher, Ph.D. 105

“Have a Piss, Drink Ogogoro, Smoke Igbo, but don’t take Gbana”—Hard and Soft Drugs

in Nigeria: A Critical Comparison of Official Policies and the View on the Street

— Axel Klein, Ph.D. 111

Sticky Business: Patterns of Procurement and Misuse of Prescription Cough Syrup

in Houston

— William N. Elwood, Ph.D.. 121

Long-Term Therapy using GHB (Sodium Gamma Hydroxybutyrate) for

Treatment-Resistant Chronic Alcoholics

Icro Maremmani, M.D.; Francesco Lamanna, M.D. & Alessandro Tagliamonte, M.D. 135

Gamma Hydroxybutyrate (GHB) and Gamma Butyrolactone (GBL) Withdrawal:

Five Case Studies

Charles H. McDaniel, M.D. & Karen A. Miotto, M.D. 143

The Nonmedical Use of Ketamine, Part Two: A Review of Problem Use and

Dependence

Karl L. R. Jansen, M.D., Ph.D., M.R.C.Psych. & Rachael Darracot-Cankovic, B.Sc. 151

The Development, Reliability, and Validity of a Clinical Rating Scale for Codependency

Daniel Harkness, Ph.D., A.C.S.W.; Melaney Swenson, M.S.W.;

Kathryn Madsen-Hampton, M.S.W. & Richard Hale, M.S.W., D.C.S.W. 159

Walking the Tightrope: Balancing Health and Drug Use

Micheline Duterte, B.A.; Sarah O’Neil, B.A.; Gerard McKearin, B.A.;

Paloma Sales, A.A.; Terrence Murphy, J.D. & Sheigla Murphy, Ph.D. 173

SHORT COMMUNICATION

Assessing the Influence of Need to Inject and Drug Withdrawal

on Drug Injectors’ Perceptions of HIV Risk Behavior

— Rhidian A. Hughes, D.Phil. 185

Rapid Heroin Detoxification Using a Single High Dose of Buprenorphine

— Ilan Kutz, M.D. & Victor Reznik, M.D. 191

BOOK REVIEW

Tripping: An Anthology of True-Life Psychedelic Adventures

— Reviewed by Steve Heilig, M.P.H. 195

INTERNATIONAL ADDICTIONS INFOLINE

— Richard B. Seymour, M.A; David E. Smith, M.D. & Terry Chambers, B.A. 197

COVER ART

— OR2 by Frank Pietronigro ()