Drugs and Alcohol Today: Volume 4 Issue 1

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Fixing leaks — the user involvement way

John Campbell

John Campbell gives a personal story of how his own fight with alcoholism gave him the vision for arguably the UK's biggest service user involvement programme.

Soho far so good? The rise and fall of user involvement in London

Claire Robbins

The Soho Rapid Access Clinic (SRAC) was set up in 1999 to provide easily accessible substitute prescribing to homeless drug users ‐ many of whom use crack and/or heroin, often in…

Poppycock — opium use in the UK

Hossein Sharifi

While drugs services in the UK are busy with dangerous drugs such as crack and heroin, few are aware of the problems being faced by UK opium users. In this special report Hossein…

Prejudice against heroin users

Laura Palfreyman, Natalie Moore, Gordon Hodson, David Clark

The first in a series of articles from University of Wales, Swansea on attitudes to drug users and their rehabilitation

Trauma resolution ‐ the key to addiction treatment

Charley Shults

The concept of trauma first came to light as far back as the First World War, when soldiers returned from the battlefield with debilitating shell shock. Things have moved on since…

Part 4: Minds, moods and behaviour: the case for cognitive behaviour therapy in addictions: Approaches to addiction series Series editor: Martin Weegman

Frank Ryan

Continuing our series on different approaches to addiction, Frank Ryan presents the latest, and possibly most potent tool, in tackling addiction. He explores the theory and…

Back in control — putting controlled drinking back on the agenda

Brenda Coldwell

Harm minimisation still gets a rough ride in some circles. In the US, harm minimisation is still seen as a failure among many professionals ‐ where abstinence‐based Alcoholic and…

ISSN:

1745-9265

Online date, start – end:

2001 – 2022

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Editors:

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