Addiction Arena

Coping with Alcohol and Drug Problems

The Experiences of Family Members in Three Contrasting Cultures

• By Jim Orford, Guillermina Natera, Alex Copello, Carol Atkinson, Jazmin Mora, Richard Velleman, Ian Crundall, Marcela Tiburcio, Lorna Templeton and Gwen Walley.

Published June 2013

What difference does culture make? Coping with Alcohol and Drug Problems: The Experiences of Family Members in Three Contrasting Cultures aims to deepen and extend understanding of the experiences of family members trying to cope with the excessive drinking or drug taking of a…
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Crack Cocaine Users

High Society and Low Life in South London

• By Daniel Briggs.

Published May 2013

Crack cocaine users have significant health problems, and place a significant burden on social services, the criminal justice system and drug treatment agencies. Among policymakers, professionals and the wider section of society, they are the most poorly understood drug-using group and have the…
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Using Space: Critical Geographies of Drugs and Alcohol

• Edited by Christopher M. Moreno, and Robert Wilton.

Published April 2013

The consumption of drugs and alcohol, and the pleasures and problems arising from this consumption, can be understood as embedded and constitutive elements of social, family, and recreational life. At the same time, they are key sites of intervention for a broad array of state and non-state actors…
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Assessing Common Mental Health and Addiction Issues With Free-Access Instruments

• By Katie M. Sandberg, Taryn E. Richards and Bradley T. Erford.

Published March 2013

As healthcare costs rise, so too do the costs of assessment instruments, critical tools for mental health professionals. While some traditional assessment instruments have become prohibitively expensive, as with many other fields, the Internet offers a host of more affordable and equitable…
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Principles and Practice of Group Work in Addictions

• Edited by Robert Hill, and Jennifer Harris.

Published April 2011

How can the group setting be used to treat those with drug and alcohol problems? Many professionals working across a variety of addictions settings find themselves working in groups and tackling complex issues; however, there is often very little initial training or on-the-job support to help them…
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Responding to Drug Misuse

Research and Policy Priorities in Health and Social Care

• Edited by Susanne MacGregor.

Published September 2009

Responding to Drug Misuse provides a unique insight into the current shape of the drugs treatment system in England. Reporting findings from research linked to the government's ten year drugs strategy Tackling Drugs to Build a Better Britain, the book places these in the context of policy, practice…
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Solution-Focused Substance Abuse Treatment

• By Teri Pichot, and Sara A. Smock.

Published March 2009

Solution-Focused Substance Abuse Treatment describes the standard of care for substance abuse treatment, demonstrates how solution-focused brief therapy exceeds this standard, and shows how it can effectively be used in substance abuse evaluation, case management, and both individual and group…
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Stress, Trauma and Substance Use

• Edited by Brian E Bride, and Samuel A MacMaster.

Published February 2009

The editors of Stress, Trauma, and Substance Use have gathered a collection of innovative chapters written by cutting edge researchers that depict both the breadth of the relationships between stress, trauma, and substance use, as well as how closely these phenomena are all too often linked.…
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Overcoming Problematic Alcohol and Drug Use

A Guide for Beginning the Change Process

• By Jeremy M. Linton.

Published September 2007

Overcoming Problematic Alcohol and Drug Use is a workbook for use with clients in treatment, informed by the most current research and literature in the substance abuse field. Offering a field-tested alternative to the disease model of addiction, the book introduces a six-session curriculum for…
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Clinical Handbook of Co-existing Mental Health and Drug and Alcohol Problems

• Edited by Amanda Baker, and Richard Velleman.
• Foreword by Wayne Hall, and Michael Farrell.

Published January 2007

Co-existing mental health and drug and alcohol problems occur frequently in primary care and clinical settings. Despite this, health professionals rarely receive training in how to detect, assess and formulate interventions for co-existing problems and few clinical guidelines exist. This Handbook…
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