Drugs and Alcohol Today: Volume 11 Issue 3

The quiet revolution: health service reform and its impact on drug and alcohol services in England

Marcus Roberts

The purpose of this paper is to examine the implications for drug and alcohol treatment of radical policy changes being implemented by the government, particularly the proposed…

Providing drug and alcohol services to female offenders: exploring gender and geographical barriers

Stephen Moore

This paper seeks to explore the views and experiences of female offenders with problem drug/alcohol use living in rural areas and to provide their perspectives on shortcomings in…

Mephedrone, “Bubble” and unidentified white powders: the contested identities of synthetic “legal highs”

Fiona Measham, Karenza Moore, Jeanette Østergaard

In this fourth paper in a series on emergent drug trends in the UK (2006 ketamine, 2009 MDMA powder/crystal, 2010 mephedrone), the authors consider how the pharmacological…

Estimating the costs and benefits of an alcohol treatment requirement

Chris Fox, Kevin Albertson, Karen Williams, Mark Ellison

This paper seeks to report on a project to estimate the costs and benefits of implementing an Alcohol Treatment Requirement (ATR) in Stockport. The work is designed to support the…

Clinical Textbook of Addictive Disorders Third Edition

Alison Battersby

Weed, Need and Greed. A Study of Domestic Cannabis Cultivation

Polly Radcliffe

Group Therapy for Substance Use Disorders: A Motivational Cognitive‐behavioural Approach

Steve Freeman

Drug Policy Harmonization and the European Union

Axel Klein

In this issue

Round up

The police and drug control as a causal factor in the breakdown of public order

Global Commission on drug policy reform calls for urgent reforms to drug policy

Niamh Eastwood