Drugs and Alcohol Today: Volume 18 Issue 4

In this issue

Blaine Stothard, Axel Klein

The impact of employment on perceived recovery from opiate dependence

Elizabeth Lowe, Shabana Akhtar, Oliver Emmerson, Thomas Parkman, Edward Day

Less than 15 per cent of people starting opiate substitution treatment (OST) in England are employed, but few gain employment during treatment. Increasingly punitive approaches…

Quality of life and better than well: a mixed method study of long-term (post five years) recovery and recovery capital

Andrew Collins, Alison McCamley

The purpose of this paper is to compare quality of life scores in a long-term recovery population group (post five years) with a general population group and to explore how any…

The role of spirituality in alcohol abstinence self-efficacy amongst alcoholics anonymous members

Liene Bluma

Previous research indicates that Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) can play an effective role in alcohol use disorder recovery (Kelly, Stout, Magill, Tonigan and Pagano, 2011). Acceptance…

Demand and supply of opiates in an unregulated market

Donald F. Vitaliano

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the demand and supply of opiates in the USA during the period 1870–1914 when the market was virtually unregulated.

This place is like the jungle: discussions about psychoactive substances on a cryptomarket

Sara Rolando, Franca Beccaria

The purpose of this paper is to analyse dynamics amongst members to better understand in what terms and to what extent marketplace forums can be seen as new forms of harm…

Perceptions of alcohol use in UK 12–14 year olds

Lynne Wood, Isabella McMurray

A continuing challenge in the design of effective interventions to prevent adolescents’ alcohol misuse is understanding adolescent drinking behaviour. Although previous research…

Alcopops: a global perspective on the new category of alcoholic beverage

Kavota Mwendiwva Precieuse, Vikas Kumar, Sheenam Suri, Yogesh Gat, Ashwani Kumar

The purpose of this paper is to explore the history, classification, regulation, the current market and consumer trends and health effects of alcopops.