Drugs and Alcohol Today: Volume 6 Issue 4

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Under threat: patient confidentiality and NHS computing

Ross Anderson

The bedrock of patient and doctor trust is under threat. Government moves to centralise patient records are putting the security of medical records at risk, which in turn is…

The rising need for opium licensing: the only weapon to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan

Emmanuel Reinert

In July 2006 Emmanuel Reinert warned of the danger of opium eradication in Afghanistan. While the world suffers a shortage in opioid painkillers, military operations to destroy…

Mental health, drugs and the call to reinstate harm reduction

David Chaisty

There is a risk that harm reduction is being taken for granted. Despite saving many hundreds of thousands of lives from HIV and AIDS and the ongoing value it provides to drug and…

Spotlight on services series: Involving the public in EU drugs policy

Thierry Charlois, Eberhard Schatz

This issue's Spotlight travels to Amsterdam with a look at EU drug and alcohol policy. Though it seems far away and at times irrelevant, EU policy is moving fast to raise the…

Policing cannabis as a Class C drug: an arresting change?

Tiggey May, Martin Duffy, Mike Hough

In the first study of its kind, researchers from King's College expose the consequences of reclassifying cannabis. Just how much time have the police saved, what does the Bobby on…

Attracting women revisited

Jeff Fernandez

In the previous edition of Drugs and Alcohol Today Jeff Fernandez presented a new and effective method that is attracting hard to reach women to an alcohol clinic. Here he…

Addictions without substance series: Past caring: treating the family and beyond

Martin Weegmann

Addictions without substance editor Martin Weegmann explains why treating a substance user in isolation risks failure ‐ unless family, friends and the wider circle of interested…

ISSN:

1745-9265

Online date, start – end:

2001 – 2022

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Editors:

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