Drugs and Alcohol Today: Volume 17 Issue 3

Lessons from civil society? A response to Collins

Damon Barrett

Letter in response to John Collins, “Losing UNGASS? Lessons from civil society, past and present” DAT Issue 2, 2017

Tom Blickman

Letter to the editors re: John Collins' paper

Richard Lines

Letters from Barnett, Blickman and Lines

John Collins

Crisis management by HIV/AIDS non-governmental organisations in the post-Euromaidan Ukraine led to opening new horizons

Anna Duchenko, Tetiana Deshko, Marina Braga

Civil society played a significant role during and after the 2014 revolution in Ukraine, which led to the resignation of President Yanukovich and his government and triggered a…

The architecture of recovery: two kinds of housing assistance for chronic homeless persons with substance use disorders

Friedner Wittman, Douglas Polcin, Dave Sheridan

Roughly half a million persons in the USA are homeless on any given night and over a third of those individuals have significant alcohol/other drug (AOD) problems. Many are…

Proximal predictors of breath alcohol level at venues primarily serving sexual minority patrons

Julie M. Croff, Joseph M. Currin, Randolph D. Hubach, Amanda F. Frederick, Sue C. Jacobs, Hugh C. Crethar

The purpose of this paper is to assess the proximal predictors of breath alcohol content (BrAC) at exit of a venue that primarily served sexual minority patrons. Contrary to prior…

Psychiatrists’ knowledge of novel psychoactive substances

Raven Egheosa Owie, Paul Gosney, Andrew Roney, Aileen O’Brien

The purpose of this paper is to measure the level of experience and knowledge of novel psychoactive substances (NPS) amongst psychiatrists, asking them to rank NPS against other…

Cannabis and psychosis: the impact of polydrug use

Mark Shevlin, Eoin McElroy, Jamie Murphy, Philip Hyland, Frédérique Vallieres, Ask Elklit, Mogens Christoffersen

While research has consistently identified an association between cannabis use and psychosis, few studies have examined this relationship in a polydrug context (i.e. combining…

Heroin-induced toxic leukoencephalopathy – “chasing the dragon” in South Africa

Clara Maria Schutte, Sunayna Sasikumar, Keorapetse Nchoe, Mandisa Kakaza, Veronica Ueckermann, Cornelius H. Van der Meyden

In South Africa, many illicit drugs have only recently been introduced and drug-related complications are often new to treating physicians. Heroin-induced leukoencephalopathy has…

The Impact of Addictive Substances and Behaviours on Individual and Societal Well-Being (Part of the Series: Governance of Addictive Substances and Behaviour)

John Foster

Journeys into Drugs and Crime: Jamaican Men Involved in the UK Drugs Trade

Axel Klein