Advances in Dual Diagnosis: Volume 3 Issue 4

New policies: a lighter touch?

Graham Durcan

Alcohol misuse and offending: challenges for policy and practice

Rob Fitzpatrick

The development of policy and delivery of interventions in the connected fields of alcohol and criminal justice is a complex area with implications for the single and joined‐up…

Offender alcohol interventions: minding the policy gap

Rob Fitzpatrick, Laura Thorne

This paper provides a methodological review of a piece of qualitative policy research formulating recommendations for the commissioning and delivery of offender alcohol…

Comparing two counselling styles for hazardous drinkers charged with alcohol‐related offences in a police custody suite: piloting motivational interviewing brief intervention or a standard brief intervention to reduce alcohol consumption

Clive Tobutt, Raffaella Milani

The aim of this randomised intervention study was to test the use of two counselling styles in reducing alcohol consumption in offenders who were hazardous drinkers and who had…

An interview with Professor Louis Appleby

Graham Durcan

An interview in which Professor Louis Appleby, CBE, reflects on his time as National Director for Mental Health and in particular the reforms to services for people with…

Surviving severe personality disorders: a challenge for patients and professionals

Roos Stals, Albert Dijkhuizen, Tom Joosten

GGzE, a mental health care organisation in the south Netherlands, implemented treatment for patients with severe personality disorders and substance use: clinical case management…

Policy review

Gael Scott, Graham Durcan

As one might expect after the formation of a new government, there has been a considerable amount of activity on the policy front in recent months, with a range of green and white…

High Society: Mind‐altering drugs in history and culture

Philip Gatter