Drugs and Alcohol Today: Volume 3 Issue 2

Editorial Your opinion IS important

David Cooper

Cultural aspects of alcohol use (Part 1)

Larry Purnell, John Foster

This is the first of a two‐part article on cultural aspects of alcohol use and includes information on alcohol consumption among Koreans, British, Americans, Jews, Italians, Irish…

USA National Student Nurses Association passes resolution: In support of nursing school policies to assist and advocate nursing students experiencing impaired practice

Dana Murphy‐Parker, Scarlette Kronenbitter, Ray Kronenbitter

Approaches to addiction series Part 1: Introduction The major psycho‐social approaches to addiction: what is it that you do?

Martin Weegmann

Current practice: The development of an alcohol liaison service within a general hospital setting: the Edinburgh experience

Louise Learmonth, Helene Leslie

In 1992, a Scottish Office grant was awarded to develop a nurse‐led alcohol liaison service for patients within a busy general hospital (Leslie & Learmonth, 1994).This project was…

How we do it: alcohol awareness group in the acute setting

Philip Cooper

This article highlights the need to provide interventions to those with mental health problems who also use alcohol or illicit substances. It identifies a group‐work package that…

Detoxification by gradual reduction of alcohol intake

Allan Cooper

ISAJE Ethical Guidelines draft

News from the crazy world of intoxicology

Rowdy Yates