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Popular prevention, modeled on therapy, involves working with adequate people in life-enhancement activities. In contrast, unpopular prevention is policy-oriented and aims at the social, economic, and political structures contributing to alcohol and drug abuse. Until the policies that reinforce the status quo change, alcohol and drug abuse prevention efforts will be unsuccessful and trivial, and popular prevention will continue to spawn programs that are piecemeal, cosmetic, ineffective, fun, and futile. Before instituting programs, prevention coordinators would do well to re-examine the most damaging and costly forms of drug abuse and raise the questions: do these efforts have anything to do with stabilizing current drug abuse? Will they have any impact on the primary drugs of abuse, alcohol and tobacco? Does the program offer anything substantive to help with problems related to drug-induced nutritional deficiency, industrial chemicals, food additives, OTC concoctions, and ethical pharmaceuticals? Or is the focus on illicit recreational euphoriants? Reviewing these and other burning questions, the author is less than optimistic about the future of prevention.

This paper reviews the perils of establishing a drug-free policy for counseling staff. Five major perils are identified, not the least of which is the peril of locating a staff willing to be alcohol and drug-free as a condition of employment. Other perils include justifying a drug-free policy (which entails the hazard of being deemed oppressive and just no fun at all); the cover-up; nit-picking and sophistry; and a most parlous peril, the peril of rectitude.Drug-free counselors serve as exemplars: models of coping effectively without drugs; models of assertiveness in refusing alcohol or drugs; in short, models of well-being, able to employ in their own lives the skills and techniques of effective living they impart to clients.The authors argue that a drug-free staff policy does not involve moral issues only, rather that establishing, maintaining and reinforcing the notion of alcohol and drug-free staff may be necessary for credible survival—making this an eminently practical policy stance.

Focuses on the jewelry store in Milan, Italy owned by the Sabbadini family. Growth of the store's clientele from the United States; Remarks from the Sabbadinis; Price ranges of products at the store.

Features fashion designer Donatella Versace. Personal background; Relationship with her siblings, Santo and Gianni; Helping out in the family business.

Reports on the fashion success of the partnership between designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana. Dolce & Gabbana's market; Success in the British market.

The article focuses on the importance of the release of Eros Ramazzotti's music album '9,' for the artist and for the record label BMG Ricordi SpA. "The project is a worldwide priority for BMG," says Sabrina Gallone, the label's international development manager. Both the artist and his label are convinced that the classic melodic pop formula is still the right one for export. Songs of the album are autobiographical. The album's pre-release single, Un'Emozione Per Sempre, has an elements of tragedy. Luca Viscardi, director of programming for AC/talk network RTL 102.5 Hit Radio, has placed the song in the station's highest rotation category of four to five spins per day.

Italy's national radio trade body, the RNA, appears to have suffered a major blow after four of its 13 members quit the organization on April 26, 2003 in a row over digital radio strategy. The networks in question are all Milan, Italy-based: Lorenzo Suraci's RTL 102.5 Hit Radio, Angelo Borra's Radio 101 Network, Plus Alberto Hazan's Radio 105 and its AC sister station, Radio Montecarlo. As recently as April 15, the stations concerned all approved the appointment of a new president Edoardo Montefusco, owner of the Rome-based AC CHR network, Radio Dimensione Suono and a new budget. The main cause of the rift appears to be the issue of digital radio.

The article presents information on various reggae music albums, as of August 2, 2003. 'Outlaw,' the second solo album by white artist Leigh Stephen Kenny, sees him mixing up his hip hop, punk and rock influences to produce modern English reggae. Hailing from Harlesden in north London, England, Suncycle are a 15-strong collective based around the central figure of Dolamite. With their raw, hardcore dancehall style, the crew have built up a strong street following over the past two to three years. Otto Ohm are a product of the vibrant Roman alternative music scene and were also the first act to release an album on Italy's eclectic indie label NuN Entertainment company when it opened for business in 2000.

After a heated nine-day debate, Italy's 28-article Communications Bill, approved by Italian parliament's lower chamber in April 2003, finally passed through the country's Senate on July 22, 2003, by 160 votes to 122. The bill officially covers the reform of the radio and TV system, with reference to privatization of public broadcaster RAI and the future application of digital technology. The bill significantly loosens up previous cross-media ownership restrictions, even if the owner of more than one TV channel is still prevented from owning daily newspapers until 2009.

The future of Italy's Sanremo Festival is now in serious doubt, following the July 2, 2003 announcement by labels' body FIMI that it is "disassociating itself definitively and irrevocably" from the event. The Festival's organizers and its broadcasters, RAI, are treating this threat as merely a ploy to increase its influence over the festival, but FIMI members are adamant that neither they nor their artists will be attending the 2004 event. The FIMI announcement comes only weeks after the June 13 arrest of three members of the Sanremo Academy on bribery charges. Despite FIMI director-general Enzo Mazza's assertion that "it would now be damaging for the industry to be associated with the Festival", the real issue remains money. Last year RAI and Sanremo agreed to re-imburse labels for their expenses, but, as FIMI vice-president, Mario Limongelli says that "the Festival still owes the labels euros 500,000, while RAI owes euros 250,000."

As Italy begins its six-month presidency of the European Union, Italian labels' group FIMI and three organizations representing music retailers and distributors have drafted a statement to the government designed to help the country's troubled industry. FIMI, together with electronics retail body ANCRA, Vendomusica, a music retailer and distributor, and FISMED, a musical instrument retailer, is calling on the Italian government to bring the sales tax on recordings, currently 20%, in line with that levied on books and other media products. Finally, the groups ask the government to lobby for European legislation on counterfeit products, to put Italy's long-awaited Music Bill on the legislative calendar, and to promote better research on music consumption and digital technology.

Created by a husband-and-wife team of Marco and Simona Roveda with the proceeds of the sale of their organic food company, Lifegate Radio is a radio station which broadcasts on FM to Milan, Italy and the surrounding Lombardy region — is garnering a cult audience by extending the Roveda family's holistic business philosophies to the commercial radio sector. With no talk and around 16 tracks per hour drawn from a highly eclectic music database, Lifegate Radio is providing a real alternative for adult listeners who have difficulty in handling the teen-leaning, noisy chaos that is often Italian commercial radio. Lifegate Radio includes a free magazine dedicated to health and environmental issues. INSETS: Factfile: Lifegate Radio;Sample hour: Lifegate Radio (daytime);Sample hour: Lifegate Radio (evenings).

Representing part of a new wave of commercially-successful Italian jazz/dance, Jazzbit's release of their debut album has been awaited by fans of both genres. In fact, they've been waiting ever since the Roman trio's re-working of Louis Prima's swing era classic Sing Sing Sing was a radio and club hit in Italy during the second half of 2002. Time Records signed Jazzbit after the summer holidays 2002, and Sing Sing Sing's growing airplay was helped by the fact that it was included in ad campaign for Telecom's Alice internet service, which had previously used the Gabin track.

Warner Music Mexico's Grammy Awards-winning rock band Maná's latest album 'Revolution De Amor' was given a simultaneous release in Latin America and Spain in October 2002, and has already been issued in Germany, while a special version has been prepared for the Italian market, where it comes out on May 16, 2003. Jon Uren, Warner Music Europe's senior director of marketing, says that the album's Spanish and German release has already produced combined European sales of 250,000 copies, but is confident that it will also work in Italy and a number of European territories.

In January 2003 record executives sat up and took notice when Stefano Senardi's independent label, NuN Entertainment, signed performer Simply Red for Italy. Of all NuN's albums, the biggest sellers so far have been 50,000 units for Cousteau's first album and 30,000 for Paolo Turci's Questa Parte Di Monda, but Senardi thinks that, in today's market, record sales should be seen as just one source of income. Senardi sees the recent DVD boom as an encouraging sign. INSET: From earning five LPs a week to running a label.

French songwriter and producer Alan Simon's ecologically-themed, multi-artist Gaia album had an international shipment of 600,000 units on its March 27, 2003 launch. Launched at Midem in Cannes in January, the music project is aimed at environmental concerns around the world with the royalties from the sales going towards promoting ecological awareness in schools. Simon's resumé includes work with Fleetwood Mac, Supertramp and Excalibur, has spent three years on the project and even sold his song catalogue in order to finance it. Features of the album are discussed.

Italy's much-criticized music retail distribution sector and the country's battle against rampant piracy could both receive a vital boost following the launch in June 2003 of a national network of CD 'kiosk' stations. The creation of a Turin, Italy-based company, Caliel Global Entertainment, the network, known as My Emotion, will ultimately offer a catalogue of 500,000 titles which can be drawn upon to create personalized compilations at 3,000 CD stations in the small towns and areas of the country, particularly in the south, where record stores are virtually non-existent. If the project takes off the plan is to expand it into France and Spain by the end of the year, with a view to moving to even larger territories by 2005.

Presents information about developments related to Sony Music International Inc. in Europe as of April 12, 2003. Plans of Sony Music Germany to dismiss some of its employees; Expectation of profits by Sony Music France; Possibility of reorganization in Sony Music Spain.

This article focuses on Italy-based music radio station Radio Popolare. Radio Popolare's average daily audience of 198,000 listeners may not make it a major player in Italian radio, but its radical programming stance, both in politics and music, combined with top-quality news reporting and analysis, means that it has an appeal that stretches well beyond the political left. Radio Populare was set up in early 1976 by Piero Scaramucci. Danilo De Biasio and Massimo Rebotti share work operations of the station. News, rather than campaigning politics, provides the key to the station's audience. Although news is undoubtedly what lures most listeners to Radio Popolare, music is a key part of the format. Popolare's flagship music show is 'Patchanka,' which airs on weekdays from 14.00-15.30 and from 21.00-22.30. The afternoon slot is aimed at a younger audience, while the evening audience is more mature and more cultured. 'Patchanka' is followed at 22.30 by more specialist programs featuring jazz and world music.

Record company executives in Spain and Italy have expressed their concerns for the business following the release of market data in both territories in March 2003. In Spain, music piracy has led to decline in revenue which was down 16 percent at 526.9 million euros and unit sales 18 percent lower at 60.2 million from 73.6 million in 2001. In Italy, trade figures revealed sales of 47 million units, up from 43 million in 2001, while revenue increased to 340 million euros from 338 million euros.

Reports that Milan, Italy-based digital music company, Vitaminic, which is active in ten European countries has announced that it is intends to merge with Italian interactive mobile service provider, Buongiorno. Prospects for number of job losses across pan-European operations; Proposed schedule for closure of the merger; Terms of the merger creating business entity Buongiorno Vitaminic.

Focuses on the ratings of dance radio station Radio Italia Network for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2002. Increase in audiences of the network; Positions of other radio stations.

Reports on plans of Italian commercial radio groups to oppose air play quotas to be introduced by the Italian government as of February 1, 2003. Implications of air play quotas for radio groups; Examination of Music Bill by the Culture Committee of the Italian parliament; Brief information about the contents of the bill; Presentation given by radio groups to the committee regarding their grievances.

Focuses on the relationship between the independent sound recording labels and the major record companies of Italy. Accusations made by independent labels against the Italian government, collecting society SIAE and major record companies; Comment of Toni Verona of the Alabianca Group on need for co-operation between independent labels and record companies; Key problems faced by independent labels in the industry. Entertainment.