Advances in Dual Diagnosis: Volume 11 Issue 1

Psychiatric co-morbidity among women with substance use disorders

Alexandra Garcia-Guix, Juan Ignacio Mestre-Pinto, Judit Tirado-Muñoz, Antonia Domingo-Salvany, Marta Torrens

Harm reduction in a Norwegian housing first project: a qualitative study of the treatment providers’ practice

Ellen Sofie Andvig, Knut Tore Sælør, Esther Ogundipe

Little is known about how harm reduction is practiced in Norwegian housing first (HF) projects. The purpose of this paper is to explore, describe, and interpret how providers…

Narratives of recovery in people with coexisting mental health and alcohol misuse difficulties

Andrew Stott, Helena Priest

Existing literature has examined what recovery means to people with co-occurring difficulties, but does little to examine experiences of recovery as a process. The purpose of this…

Novel psychoactive substance use by mental health service consumers: an online survey of inpatient health professionals’ views and experiences

Elizabeth Hughes, Dan Bressington, Kathryn Sharratt, Richard Gray

There is evidence that novel psychoactive substances (NPS) are commonly used by people with severe mental illness. The purpose of this paper is to undertake a scoping survey to…

A 10-year strategy for mental health research which ignores drug use

Ian Hamilton

Joining the Dots: the combined burden of violence, abuse and poverty in the lives of women

Katharine Sacks-Jones