Drugs and Alcohol Today: Volume 14 Issue 4

Can outcome expectancies be measured across substances? Development and validation of a questionnaire for populations in treatment

Christos Kouimtsidis, Daniel Stahl, Robert West, Colin Drummond

The purpose of this paper is to develop a brief outcome expectancies questionnaire applicable across nicotine, alcohol, opioid and stimulant users seeking or willing to seek…

Effectiveness of a nurse led hospital in-reach team and assertive follow-up of frequent attenders with alcohol misuse complications – a retrospective mirror image evaluation

Jamshid Nazari, Duncan Raistrick

Physical comorbidities of alcohol misuse are common and result in frequent attendance to hospitals with estimated £3.5bn annual cost to the NHS in England. The purpose of this…

Cocaine users and self-regulation mechanisms

Grazia Zuffa, Patrizia Meringolo, Fausto Petrini

The prevalence of cocaine use has been increasing since the mid-1990s in many European countries, Italy included. There is a large variety of patterns of cocaine use in natural…

Implementation of computer-assisted therapy for substance misuse: a qualitative study of Breaking Free Online using Roger's diffusion of innovation theory

Sarah Elison, Jonathan Ward, Glyn Davies, Mark Moody

The purpose of this paper is to explore the adoption and implementation of computer-assisted therapy (CAT) using Breaking Free Online (BFO) in a social care and health charity…

“Doctor shopping and pharmacy hopping”: practice innovations relating to codeine

Marie Claire Van Hout

The misuse of pharmaceutical opioid analgesics is identified as a global public health concern. Codeine represents an interesting quandary in terms of its regulated status, with…

Investigating the terminology used to describe Ecstasy

Alexandra Turner, Lata Gautam, Colleen Moore, Michael Cole

– The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the changing use of language concerning the drug Ecstasy and their potential consequences over the last ten years.

Legal highs: the drugs that are causing heroin addicts to eat themselves

Elizabeth Wastnedge