Drugs and Alcohol Today: Volume 1 Issue 1
Table of contents
Community Alcohol Services: A call for a pro‐active response
John Foster, E. Marshall, T. PetersBackground: A consistent finding in alcohol research is that residential treatment gains tend to be cost inefficient and short‐lived. Yet this is often the only option offered to…
Alcohol information for primary care professionals
Anna WoodAlcohol Concern decided to develop the service for several reasons. Primary care is the main contact people have with the health service ‐ in any year 70% of the population will…
School‐based support groups for adolescents with an addicted parent: Using principles of solution focused therapy
Bonnie Gance‐Cleveland, Annette RothmanThere are four to six children with chemically dependent parents in an average classroom. Only 5% of these children receive any supportive services. Children of substance abusers…
Systemic ideas to alcohol dependence: Reflections on an integrative model
Colin AyersThis paper discusses the contribution of systemic family therapy and theory within the context of a statutory community alcohol service. Systemic couples and family therapy is…
Nursing perspective of global substance abuse and misuse: US and UK differences
Dana Murphy‐Parker, Ruby MartinezSubstance abuse and dependence to alcohol, tobacco and other drugs (ATOD) is a universal public health problem extending across all borders, and including all ethnic, cultural…
ISSN:
1745-9265Renamed to:
Drugs, Habits and Social PolicyOnline date, start – end:
2001 – 2022Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedEditors:
- Dr Axel Klein
- Mr Blaine Stothard
- Dr Aysel Sultan