Drugs and Alcohol Today: Volume 9 Issue 4

Editorial

Axel Klein

Legal Eye

Niamh Eastwood

Policy forum

Charlotte Walsh

This paper considers the findings of the Beckley Foundation's Global Cannabis Commission Report (Room et al, 2008), an overview of the scientific literature on cannabis, detailing…

Treatmentality and the governing of drug use

Steffen Jöhncke

This article discusses drug use treatment as a particular, indispensable institution in the political and cultural imagination of contemporary welfare societies. It is argued that…

Pregnancy and its effects on opiate and alcohol use

Kashmir Goddard

This study explores how the provision of opiate substitution therapy to pregnant women could achieve a reduction in heroin use. It further explores whether such a reduction is…

From Helmand to the high street: a four‐year study to systematically prioritise and map illicit drug markets in Lancashire

Stuart Kirby, Ian Billsborough, Lisa Steele

For local law enforcement agencies, the subject of illicit drugs can appear all‐pervasive. Any multifaceted problem situated in an intrusive media and political environment raises…

Social and psychological aspects of alcohol misuse and dependence

Hannah Jethwa

Problem drinking includes a spectrum of drinking habits ranging from excessive alcohol intake to alcohol dependence. Numerous risk factors are thought to increase the…

Media resource round up

Christine Goodair

Conference report

John Corkery

John M Corkery reports on the European Science Foundation and Linköping University conference, ‘The Changing Use and Misuse of Catha Edulis (Khat) in a Changing World’ held in…

A series of reports on issues surrounding drug use and drug services among various Black and minority ethnic communities in England

Jane Fountain

Key messages from a series of five reports on issues surrounding drug use and drug services amoung Black and minority ethnic communities in England.

Book review

Axel Klein