Drugs and Alcohol Today: Volume 11 Issue 2

Attitudes of injecting male anabolic androgenic steroid users to media influence, health messages and gender constructs

This study seeks to gain some understanding about the attitudes of anabolic‐androgenic steroid (AAS) users towards the media and whether their constructs of masculinity are…

Research chemicals: an approach to filling the information gap

The purpose of this paper is to review the ongoing failure of contemporary government, and indeed its agencies, to provide basic, let alone adequate, factual information about…

The visionary cure of the addiction war? Ibogaine: social context, subcultural identity, and implications for drug policy

Existing treatments for alcohol and substance dependence are of limited efficacy and acceptability to users. Since such dependence is associated with high co‐morbidity and…

TOX‐bacco: call a spade a spade!

The paper aims to discuss the effects that using the correct terminology can have on smoking and smoking cessation.

“Bump and grind”: an exploratory study of Mephedrone users' perceptions of sexuality and sexual risk

This exploratory research aims to contribute to a greater understanding of the strategic roles and incidental or deliberate sex drug associations relating to an emerging club drug…

High Society. Mind‐altering Drugs in History and Culture

The Essential Guide to Drugs and Alcohol

Exploring the limits of harm reduction – could we develop a good practice guide for corporal punishment of drug users?

Round up

Change of ownership for Pier Professional

Public consultation on drug offences guideline launched by the sentencing council

54th Session on the Commission on Narcotic Drugs – the civil society experience