D R I N K I N G   &   D R U G S   D I V I S I O N
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     2011 SSSP Annual Meeting

			Program Theme:
			Service Sociology

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61st Annual Meeting August 19-21, 2011
Harrah’s Las Vegas Hotel
Las Vegas, NV




Message from the Chair:

Dear Members,

The 2011 Annual Meeting is a little over three months away.   As we all know, the meeting has been moved from Chicago to Las Vegas. This change in venue affords us the opportunity to reflect upon this year’s meeting theme of “service sociology.” Simply put, service sociology is a sociology of social problems intended to ameliorate conditions of life.  Over the decades, Chicago has been the site for many novel efforts to study or address social problems – including alcohol and substance use – given its size, local resources, and unique history. Despite its history as “sin city,” Las Vegas does not immediately come to mind in the context of addressing social problems.  Yet, Las Vegas is likely to be in need of some solutions– both social and economic– given that it had the highest home foreclosure rate in the U.S. over the past two years.  In 2010, one in nine homes in Las Vegas had some kind of foreclosure notice.  Traveling to Las Vegas in these times provides us with the opportunity to think about new ways that service sociology can be practiced and potentially merged with our own divisional concerns relating to research and teaching in the areas of alcohol and drug use.  

The meeting is in the final planning stages, and we have a great program lined up. I look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas.  

Best,

Steve Lankenau



























   




SSSP Drinking & Drugs Division Sessions
Annual Meeting
Las Vegas, NV
August 19-August 21, 2011
We have several exciting sessions planned for the 2011 Meeting:

* Workshop: Preventing Drug Overdoses, Saving Lives
* Legal Highs
* Servicing Drug Users: From Harm Reduction to Drug Treatment
* Global Drug Issues
* Substance Abuse and Mental Health Among Military Service Men and Women

We hope you’re able to join us for all of these interesting sessions.

More details will be released with the SSSP Preliminary Program.

See you in Vegas!









SSSP Membership: You can renew your SSSP membership via our secure website at: 
http://www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/pagid/925/fuseaction/ssspmember.portal. All SSSP members receive a year’s subscription to the journal, Social Problems.  Upon joining SSSP any past issues in the membership year will be provided to new members. Members also receive Social Problems Forum: The SSSP Newsletter.  Social Problems Forum is published three times year. Members are eligible to join up to three of SSSP's special problems divisions at no additional charge.  With 21 special problem divisions, three is a hard choice.  For a small charge of $2 per division, members can join the other 18 as well.  Membership in the special problems divisions allows current members to vote on who will be chair of the division and also receive the division’s unique newsletters.  All current members receive a reduced rate to attend our Annual Meeting. 

Drinking and Drugs Division



   

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