Drugs and Alcohol Today: Volume 4 Issue 4

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Nerds and narcotics: drug use in a global future

Jane Mounteney

No one knows what the future holds. Not least for substance use and addictions. Few predicted the psychedelic movement in the 1960s, the crack ‘epidemic’ in the 1980s and the ‘E’…

First and second generation generic Indians on drug use: using cultural norms and yoga in drug prevention

Nirmal Kumari

Services still have a long way to go in attracting and meeting the needs of black and ethnic minority drug users, while messages of health and prevention often go unheard or…

Psycho‐educational approach to addiction — a case study

Alan Steel, Gordon Ritchie

What hope is there for a young, unemployed man with learning disabilities and a lifetime of drug and alcohol problems? For many like this, services can prove reluctant or…

Psychosocial approaches to addiction number 4: As easy as one, two, three: twelve‐step facilitation therapy

Martin Weegmann, Tim Leighton

Twelve‐step facilitation (TSF) is becoming an important approach to the therapy of addiction. It proved an equally effective method as one of the three psychosocial approaches…

Crack use in Sheffield survey

Janine Strange, Alan McGauley

Sheffield is a high crack area. Tackling Crack: A National Plan identified it as such and several studies have highlighted the problems the area faces (Home Office, 2002;…

ISSN:

1745-9265

Online date, start – end:

2001 – 2022

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Editors:

  • Dr Axel Klein
  • Mr Blaine Stothard
  • Dr Aysel Sultan