Drugs and Alcohol Today: Volume 17 Issue 1

How can schools help to reduce the harm associated with teenage substance use? Development of a theoretically driven whole-school approach

Wolfgang A. Markham, Chris Bonell, Adam Fletcher, Paul Aveyard

Substance use prevalence varies considerably between schools, but to date, whole school approaches for reducing substance use have only been moderately effective. The purpose of…

Risk and protective factors for alcohol use among school-going adolescents in Montevideo (Uruguay)

Maria Eugenia Fernandez, Lilian Daset, Wouter Vanderplasschen, Cesar Daniel Costa Ball, Lore Van Damme, Sofie Vindevogel

The purpose of this paper is to explore risk and protective factors for alcohol use among school-going adolescents in Montevideo (Uruguay).

Self-reported reasons for voluntary abstinences by adolescent cannabis users

Blessing Ngonidzashe Marandure, Hermine L. Graham

Factors influencing cannabis use have been previously identified mainly using multivariate approaches. However, there is a dearth of information collected from the perspective of…

“Keep an eye on me, doc!”: outpatient voluntary supervised disulfiram for treatment of alcohol use disorders in a community setting

Abigail Yang, Stefanie Leung, Apo Demirkol

Across the world, 3.3 million people die every year as a result of harmful use of alcohol. In Australia, excessive alcohol intake is responsible for 3.2 percent of the total…

Visualising “junkies” and “meth heads” – a visual analysis of the persistent negative reputation of heroin and meth users

Lisa Scheibe

The purpose of this paper is to explore the persistent negative reputation of two particular types of drug users, the so-called heroin junkie and the meth head. The visual…

Prevalence of HIV risk-related drug use and sexual activity among men who have sex with men attending a specialist UK club drug clinic

Owen Bowden-Jones, Claire Whitelock, Dima Abdulrahim, Stacey Hemmings, Alexander Margetts, Michael Crawford

The purpose of this paper is to examine patterns of drug use among a cohort of drug treatment-seeking drug-using gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM), and whether…

Self-stigma in military personnel with alcohol dependence: comparison with a civilian sample before qualified withdrawal treatment

Ulrich Wesemann, Christian Kahn, Peter Lutz Zimmermann, Gerd Dieter Willmund, Georg Schomerus

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the differences in self-stigma between a military and a civilian sample in order to infer military-specific aspects of the stigmatization…

Alcohol and the Adult Brain

Gabor Kelemen

Treatment Vs Punishment for Drug Addiction: Lessons from Austria, Poland and Spain

Russell Webster