Drugs and Alcohol Today: Volume 3 Issue 3

Guest Editorial: The limits of sensible drinking

Hidden harm

Cannabis series — the whole story Part 7: Differentiating between medical use and recreational/social use, abuse and addiction

Approaches to addiction series Part 2: Relapse prevention in practice

Cultural aspects of alcohol use (Part 2)

This is the second of a two‐part article on cultural aspects of alcohol use. Part I introduced the primary and secondary characteristics of culture and the current information on…

New South Wales Corrections Health Service: harm minimisation within a correctional centre — How do we rate?

In June 2001‐July 2002 the New South Wales Corrections Health Service was providing a range of health services for approximately 8,000 full‐time inmates. This figure is steadily…

Parental substance misuse and its effect on children

This article explores the link between adult substance misuse and the effects such behaviour can have on children in their care. The implications for child development are…

Recommended psychosocial interventions for alcohol dependence: lessons in exclusion from the empirically supported treatment literature

This year (2003) saw the Health Technology Board for Scotland publish its third Health Technology Assessment Report, entitled Prevention of Relapse in Alcohol Dependence (Slattery…

International perspective column International perspective of global substance misuse

Responses to: Detoxification by gradual reduction of alcohol intake (Cooper, 2003)