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Editorial

n° 33 June 2011 - 1
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Dear European colleagues!
When writing this editorial (end of May) I am aware of the typical Swedish pre-summer weather outside my windows. Sometimes sunny mixed with some rain showers and temperature
at maximum 20 degrees. The nights can still be chilly but the days are normally very pleasant.
There is a Swedish proverb which translated to English says: Closed between bird cherry and
lilac season. Traditionally, in a folkloric way, it was said by a shoemaker in a country village
when he closed his repair shop a few days in May. It was his tribute to the present pre-summer
with all the beautiful flowers in gardens and nature. Our editor Anne Singer has kindly put in
pictures of the both flowers I mentioned so you can enjoy them.
One big issue in libraries all over Europe is the usage of social media like Facebook or Twitter.
Here in Sweden there has been over this year an explosive development in the number of
libraries that use social media. Many public libraries were early in adopting this technology
probably because one of their tasks is to try to get as many people as possible to use the library
services that they offer. Some of them use Facebook to communicate their cultural programmes and to give tips on new and interesting books.
There is a blog called “Social media in libraries - a workshop for strategies” where libraries
can publish and discuss their experiences on how to make the best out of their usage of for
example Facebook. The library of the Swedish Parliament writes on the blog: Via Facebook
the user will get small portions of information regularly, which in today's media noise has
been proved successful as a complement to long information texts on web pages. Many
libraries write that they consider Facebook complements the more traditional information
channels like printed brochures and web published lists of new books.
When I surfed round on Facebook with just the word “Bibliothèque” I found lots and lots of
French libraries with their own pages. One of them I can't resist quoting for you, is the
“Bibliothèque Oscar Wilde”. In their presentation they say: Bienvenue dans la bibliothèque
Oscar Wilde, spécialisée dans le Dandysme. Que vous souhaitiez découvrir cet art de vivre ou
faire des recherches spécialisées, n'hésitez pas à venir nous rejoindre !! Which roughly means
“Welcome to the Oscar Wilde library, specializing in Dandyism (snobbery). Whether you want
to explore this lifestyle or doing scholarly research, please join us!” in English.
If you attend Elisad annual conference in Paris this year, I can assure you that social
media in libraries will be on the agenda. Do not miss the opportunity to
apply for Elisad scholarship to attend our next conference, I will answer
all questions even though I will be away on vacation some
weeks in the middle of the summer.
Best regards,
Claes Olsson, Elisad Chair
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Innovation on the ATOD fr ontier:
Now is the time
33rd Annual SALIS Conference, Kansas City Missouri, May 3-6, 2011
Senior Adviser Jorunn Moen, Norwegian Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research (SIRUS)
The conference took place at
the Hilton President Kansas City
Hotel. 22 SALIS members and 21
members of the Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network
(ATTC) gathered in sunny Kansas
City for the 33rd annual Salis
conference. 15 of the SALIS
members were from the US, 5
from Canada, one from Australia
and one from Norway. The
Norwegian one was also the
official Elisad representative to
the conference.
The keynote session was on
Obama's health reform - held by
Executive Director Ronald W.
Manderschield of the National
Association of County Behavioral
Health & Development Disability
Directors. He described the major
features of the reform and their relationship to the substance use care
field. The reform will be contextualized with its recent history, beginning with the creation of Social
Security by President Franklin D.
Roosevelt in 1935. He described the
implications for the health reform
with an emphasis on the demands it
will place on human resources and
leadership in the future.
of Recovery): Shifting from treatment
philosophy to recovery philosophy understanding recovery oriented
systems of care. He gave a comprehensive overview of the recovery
oriented system of care movement
with a focus on recovery language,
shifting from treatment approach to
a recovery approach with an emphasis on creating entire systems of
care that allow communities to work
together as a whole in providing
A main issue addressed at the confe- services to those with a substance
rence was the change in addiction
disorder.
philosophy, from thinking treatment
Executive Director David Whiters
to thinking recovery.
of Atlanta Recovery Project set
Administrator Scott Breedlove of
ROSC in perspective with the
Missouri Substance Abuse
National Health Reform: ROSC and
Professional Credential Board gave the role of Persons in Addiction
an inspiring and enthusiastic presen- Recovery (PIR) within Health Care
tation on the philosophy behind
Reform - strategies and implications. ROSC is a framework that
ROSC (Recovery Oriented Systems
addresses behavioural health care
from chronic as opposed to acute
care approach. Throughout this framework an emphasis is placed on
sustaining long-term recovery from
addictive and mental disorders as
the primary objective, moving
beyond the acute care focus provided
by treatment. This is accomplished
through the provision of peer-based
recovery support services (P-BRSS).
P-BRSS are an integral component
of ROSC. In most instances, these
services are facilitated by individuals who identify as persons in
recovery from addictive & mental
disorders. They identify as peers,
peers specialists and/or recovery
coaches.
While the US approach to behavioural health care has evolved to a
point where treatment is viewed as
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Laurie Krom, Director of the
MS-ATTC National office,
opened the conference and
wellcomed all the participants.
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Library coordinator Sheila
Lacroix from CAMH Library in
Canada, with Karen Palmer
and Diane Van Abbe (in the
back), gave a presentation on
eBooks, challenges, choices
and opportunities.
care reform. The ATTC Network
Technology Transfer model and
definitions can help the addiction
treatment and recovery services
field to understand how EBPs are
developed, disseminated and
implemented - and how technology
transfer can accelerate the use of
EBPs to enhance and improve
client's outcomes.
Associate Director Jan Wrolstad of
Mid-America ATTC presented on
new resources from the ATTC
Network. ATTC has been developing
curricula and other products to
advance the addiction treatment
field for 18 years. During the last
seven years, the National Institute
on Drug Abuse has supplemented
the funding so that researchers and
ATTC educators can work together
to develop evidence-based research
materials immediately following
clinical trials.
Jane Shelling, from the Alcohol and other Drugs Council
of Australia, presented her Personal Librarian Project.
primary if not the exclusive mode
of initiating recovery, ROSC revisits
a period when treatment was viewed
as a component of the overall goal
which was sustained recovery.
Associate Research Professor
Heather Gotham of Mid-America
ATTC gave a presentation on The
Innovation Continuum - steps in
implementing new ideas and technologies. Too frequently, information
about innovative treatments, such as
evidence-based practices (EBPs), is
slow to circulate and attempts to
introduce EBPs into treatment programmes fail. The Addiction
Technology transfer Centre (ATTC)
Network's 14 Regional Centers and
National Office are charged with
developing and strengthening the
knowledge, skills and attitudes of
the substance abuse treatment workforce by systematically transferring
research-based practices into treatment settings. Through a process of
reviewing literature, theory and 15
years of experience, the ATTC
Network Technology Transfer
Workgroup has developed a conceptual model representing the role for
technology transfer within the innovation process. The conceptual
model was presented along with
definitions for seven key terms:
development, dissemination, implementation, translation, adoption,
technology transfer and diffusion.
Increased use of EBPs is essential in
this time of mental health/substance
abuse treatment parity and health-
Library coordinator Sheila Lacroix
from CAMH Library in Canada gave
a presentation on eBooks, challenges, choices and opportunities together with Information Coordinator
Diane Van Abbe from Ontario
Tobacco Research Unit and Information Specialist Karen Palmer
from the Canadian Centre on
Substance Abuse. They covered
topics like: What is an eBook?, Pros
and cons of eBooks and eReaders
and development policies and practices related to eResources.
There also was an international
panel on Afghanistan, Canada,
Australia and Kenya.
SALIS member Virginia Sanchez
has served in the US forces in
Afghanistan. She gave a touching
presentation on the general life of the
American soldiers in Afghanistan.
Virginia spent her free time setting
up a professional library for the soldiers.
Karen Palmer and Chad Dubeau
from the Canadian Centre on
Substance Abuse in Ottawa, shared
their working experiences from
Canada.
Jane Shelling from the Alcohol and
other Drugs Council of Australia
presented her Personal Librarian
Project (PLP) with which she has
won a scholarship and a round-theworld-ticket. PLP is a pilot project
created to improve dissemination
methods between the information
service and its members.
Jorunn Moen from Norwegian
Institute for Alcohol and Drug
Research (SIRUS) and former
Norwegian peace corps volunteer in
Kenya 1977-80, shared her memories from return to Kenya in
November 2011. As a peace corps
volunteer she worked in a public
library and she talked about the
changes at The Nyeri Provincial
Library over 30 years.
Co-Founder and Council Member
Haarlan Pruden of NorthEast
Two-spirit Society gave an interesting and moving presentation on the
Two-Spirit Society. The Indigenous
peoples of North America have
many cultural traditions that have
often been misrepresented or suppressed through the colonization
process. Many of these are significantly different perspectives about
sex, gender, sexuality than those
imported from Western Europe. In
the 21st century, one tradition that
was nearly lost is what is generically
referred to as Two-Spirit, contemporarily known as lesbian, gay, bisexual
or transgender Native peoples.
Haarlan Pruden described this
tradition from pre-colonial time up
till today.
At the Business Meeting, Meg
Brunner stepped down as SALIS
chair. Jorunn Moen from Norway
was elected new chair. She is the
first European to be a SALIS chair.
Christine Goodair from UK another European - stepped down as
Secretary a post she had held for 3
years to be elected as chair-elect.
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New Chair and Vice Chair at
the EMCDDA
In May, the EMCDDA Scientific
Committee elected Dr Marina Davoli
(Italy) to be Chair, and Prof Gerhard
Bühringer (Germany) to the position
of Vice Chair, both of these posts are
held for three years. The Scientific
Committee plays a major role in the
Emcdda’s efforts to attain scientific
excellence. It is composed of 15 highlevel scientists from the EU Member
States plus one from Norway, selected
through a public selection process based
on scientific merit and independence.
The EMCDDA Director and Management
Board consult the Committee on the
agency’s work programmes or on any
scientific matter concerning its activity.
The Committee plays a pivotal role in
the agency’s risk assessment of new
psychoactive substances.
www.emcdda.europa.eu/
Following the decision of the Administrative Board, Mrs Maud Pousset was
appointed as the new director of OFDT.
She succeeds Jean-Michel Costes,
who led the Observatory for fifteen
years until March 2011. Mrs Maud
Pousset, who was formerly in charge
of epidemiological studies and assessment of target populations within the
Sanofi-Aventis phamaceutical group,
took up her new duties at the OFDT on
the 6th of June 2011.
News from Salis
SALIS now presents a compilation of
80 databases and other online resources.
It was created to assist in the research
and dissemination of substance abuse,
alcoholism, treatment, recovery, and
other addictions information.
Unfortunately, in recent years a number
of ATOD databases have been eliminated, along with library downsizing and
closures. The SALIS Advocacy
Committee has documented the loss of
those resources in a list available in
the members-only section and called
ATOD Libraries & Databases Downsizing and Closures. Are available:
• Bibliographic databases (US)
• Bibliographic Databases (non-US)
• Data archives, surveys, and related
databases
Just added in the list the RX Database,
created by the Mid-America Addiction
First international forum on
new drugs: Concluding remarks Technology Transfer Center (ATTC).
Leading European and international
experts on new drugs met in Lisbon,
11-12 May, at the First international
multidisciplinary forum on new drugs,
organised by the EMCDDA. A report on
the forum proceedings will be available
in the coming weeks, but initial concluding remarks are already available.
EMCDDA launches
scientific paper award
Europe's top scientific papers on drugrelated topics will be acknowledged
this year in a new award .The prize
giving, to take place annually in Lisbon,
will celebrate excellence in scientific
writing in this area of critical concern
to EU citizens. The event will take
place in the margins of the EMCDDA
Scientific Committee meeting, Lisbon,
14-15 November. Articles eligible for
nomination will focus on illicit drugs,
although findings on licit substances
may also be included. The articles will
have been published in 2010 in peerreviewed journals, with the author based
in an EU Member State or Norway.
Elisad news
New director at the OFDT
This database (www.findrxinformation.org) is designed as a “desk-top
reference” of medications commonly
prescribed in the treatment of persons
with alcohol, drug, and mental health
conditions.
www.salis.org/resources/database_li
st.html
National Academies Press
Since begining of June, many books
are downloadable from the website of
the National Academies Press, but an
individual account has to be created.
The Elisad Board meeting
It was held the 25th of March, at VAD (Vereniging voor Alcohol- en
andere Drugproblemen), Brussels, thanks to Marc Wauters for hosting
it. Those present were: Isabelle Michot, Jorunn Moen, Claes Olsson,
Angita Peterse, Fiorenzo Ranieri, Anne Singer, Daniela Zardo, with
apologies from Christine Goodair.
The usual reports (Chair's, Treasurer's, Public Relation's) were
discussed. A major issue considered was the new communication
strategy that will be required as Anne Singer is retiring from Elisad
at the end of this year. An update on this year’s conference was
given and it will be held at the OFDT, in a suburb of Paris, 6-8th of
October. There was a debate about the Gateway and its future; a
webgroup was formed to look at improving the website. All of these
matters will be discussed at our next Annual Meeting which is held
during the conference. The most important news though is the
establishment of the Elisad Scholarship details below…
Elisad scholarship
The Elisad Board has established a single scholarship of € 200 for
Elisad members who require financial assistance to attend the 2011
Annual Conference in Paris. Applicants must have been an Elisad
full member for at least one year to be eligible. Conference presenters
and first-time attendees will be given priority for funding. No one
will be funded for two consecutive years. Members from the hosting
country can not apply.
Awards will be determined by a committee consisting of Elisad
Chair, the conference committee (including the local host organiser),
and Elisad Treasurer. After the committees' decision, all applicants
will be informed through e-mail whether they have been successful
or not. The scholarship shall be paid to the recipient when the Registration form to the Annual Conference has been received by Elisad.
A letter of application should be submitted to Claes Olsson no later
than July 31, 2011 and preferably by e-mail. It should include:
• Statement from the member of her/his aims for participating in the
conference.
• Estimated costs for attendance.
• Statement from the member's home organisation indicating availability and amount of complementary funds.
The scholarship recipient must make his own arrangements for travel
and accommodation. After the Annual Conference the recipient shall
provide the Treasurer with receipts as a proof of their costs as soon
as possible. The recipient shall also be prepared to write a report on
the conference to be published on Elisad web page or in Elisad
Journal. For more information, write to: [email protected]
Examples:
• Bridging the gap between practice
and research: Forging partnerships
with community-based drug and alcohol treatment (1998): www.nap.edu/
catalog.php?record_id=6169
• New treatments for addiction: behavioral, ethical, legal, and social questions (2004): http://books.nap.edu/
• Preventing HIV infection among
injecting drug users in high risk countries (2006): http://books.nap.edu/
Canadian Centre on Substance
Abuse
The Canadian Centre on Substance
Abuse (CCSA) supplied information
such that detail about their site is fully
up-to-date and accurate. Their multiple
databases are explained, and the
contact information provided allows
ease of access into these Canadian
resources.
www.ccsa.ca/Eng/KnowledgeCentre/
OurDatabases/Pages/default.aspx
Music contest in the USA
An original music video competition
was part of National Drug Facts Week
that started the 9th of May. Announced
by the National Institute on Drug Abuse
(NIDA), along with MusiCares and the
GRAMMY Foundation, the contest asks
young musicians, ages 14-18, to compose an original song or music video
that explores, encourages, and celebrates a healthy lifestyle or depicts a
story about drug abuse. For more:
www.nih.gov/news/health/may2011/
nida-09.htm
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For an integrated policy for
all psychoactive substances
Teuvo Peltoniemi, Sosiomedia
deals with Germany, the Netherlands,
Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Switzerland and the UK.
Teuvo Peltoniemi is the retired
Communication Director of the
A-Clinic Foundation, the largest
Finnish addictions treatment
It was found that the countries
and
prevention organisation.
investigated in the first study has a
He
is
also
founder and president
separate
policy
for
each
psychoactive
N MOST European countries, drugs,
of the Prevnet network. He is
substance, most notably the UK and
alcohol and tobacco are considestill active in the addiction field
red separate issues and controlled the Netherlands, of which the latter
has
traditionally
also
made
a
distincworking in his own media
by separate statutes. In some countries
company, Sosiomedia oy.
there is a more integrated approach. tion between soft and hard drugs.
I
For instance in Finland alcohol and
drugs are understood as “intoxicants”
but smoking policy is separate. The
same applies for Norway.
The Pompidou Group of the Council
of Europe made a submission for
the Ministerial Conference in Strasbourg, last November, on European
health policy that considers how best
to approach substance use policies.
The political decision makers discussed, whether substance use policies
should be dealt with by having a
policy for each substance or ha-ving
an integrated policy covering all
psychoactive substances, but no
final decision has been made.
This is an issue of great importance.
Some 55 million Europeans drink
harmful amounts of alcohol; it is
estimated that 23 million Europeans
have used cannabis in the past year;
users of heroin and cocaine number
about two million; in a year there
are 7500 drug overdose deaths in
Europe; deaths related to smoking are
over five million per year globally.
Thus effective solutions are needed for
all sectors to improve the situation.
Focus also on neuroscience
The Pompidou Group analysed different choices of substance policies
with its Research Platform. The first
study in 2008 charted the situation
on psychoactive substances in 17
countries. The main research has
been done by Richard Muscat, professor in Beha-vioural Neuroscience
in Malta, in cooperation with Dutch
researchers and other European
experts. A recently published study1
Richard Muscat & al.: Towards an integrated
policy on psychoactive substances: a theoretical and empirical analysis - Pompidou
Group, Council of Europe Publishing,
Strasbourg 2010.
The most integrated policies are in
Norway, France and Switzerland.
The contents of integrated policies
appeared to be quite different in
practice, though.
The main arguments for the integrated policy derive from studies on
neuroscience and not just from epidemiological surveys on the social
and medical harm effects of use of
psychoactive drugs. The researchers
claim that focusing on the epidemiological data has sometimes given a
biased view on the problems and
risks of substances: To date, the
main evidence used by governments
has been that related to prevalence
of use and statistics related to deaths
as a result of use, because these bits
of epidemiological information
seem to stir most concern.
Situation
in Finland and Norway
In Norway alcohol and drugs are in
the same national action plan, tobacco
is not. Gambling and anabolic steroids
are “not excluded but not explicitly
dealt with”. The execution of actions
involves several ministries, but the
national co-ordination of actions by
the Ministry of Health & Care
Services is listed as the main item
of integration in the action plan.
Finland has not been a target country
in these studies, but according to
experts, Finland and Sweden resemble closely Norway in this respect.
The trend in Finland has been towards
a more encompassing integration.
Alcohol abuse treatment systems
have included also drugs, medicines,
gambling and internet addiction in
their work. Illustratively, A-Clinic
Foundation has started to interpret
the letter “A” in its name as addictions instead of the original alcohol.
In spite of the integrated approach
of Finland there are, however, still
also separate treatment units for
alcoholics and drug addicts. Also on
administrative level there is division
of labour between alcohol, drugs
and smoking control.
There is a lot of debate on this theme
in Finland now when an exceedingly
larger number of people are polyusers, using different substances at
the same time and also being addicted to other related problems like
gambling. In fact the debate has
already progressed further from the
suggestions of the Pompidou Group
into discussion whether substance
abuse, mental health and domestic
violence are actually one and same
psycho-social problem entity where
different sectors now treat same
clients via different problems.
Will the situation change?
The permanent correspondent of the
Pompidou Group in Finland, Dr
Tapani Sarvanti of the Ministry of
Social Affairs & Health supports the
general integrated line on all psychoactive substances. Senior Planning
Officer Markku Soikkeli at the
National Institute for Health & Welfare shares the opinion and would
also like to integrate behavioural
addictions into the same entity.
Dr Sarvanti assesses that a deeper
integration would be most easily
applicable in health education. In
schools alcohol, drugs and smoking
should be dealt with as an entity. Mr
Soikkeli argues also that best and
most effective prevention methods
are often suitable for many different
substances. Besides, treating all
substances in a same way increases
the credibility of measures especially among the youth, he explains.
Dr Sarvanti wants to address the
fact that currently the means of
control for different psychoactive
substances vary considerably. Smoking policy is very strict in nearly
all European countries whilst with
alcohol the policy has been of liberalism and in drug policy the harm
reduction approach is becoming
more common.
In addition Dr Sarvanti presumes
that on the European level an integrated policy for alcohol, drugs and
smoking will be difficult to gain due
to cultural differences. The same
applies to administrative structures.
Pompidou Group was established
specifically as a drugs unit. Substance
specific differentiation was written
into the jurisdiction of EU bodies.
Even if the Pompidou study experts
clearly favour an integrated policy
on the basis of theoretical and empirical analyses, they leave the question about the change of policies still
open: It will be interesting in the
future to determine which of the
various structures in the different
countries better serves: single policies for each of the substances or an
integrated policy for all psychoactive substances.
Teuvo Peltomieni
Editor-in-Chief, Sosiomedia
Sepänkatu 19 A 21, FI-00150
Helsinki, Finland
Mobile +358-(0)400-412 838
[email protected]
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A national resource for addiction information
Claes Olsson, Librarian
The library of CAN (Swedish
Council for Information on Alcohol
& other Drugs) has a long history.
It started as early as 1906 as a
non-governmental organisation
and is still so today.
Back then the growing movements
in Swedish society were free
churches, workers associations
and temperance movements.
CAN (Centralförbundet
för alkohol- och narkotikaupplysning)
Box 70412
107 25 Stockholm (Sweden)
Tel.: +46- 8- 412 46 12
Fax: +46- 8- 10 46 41
E-mail: [email protected]
During the first decades of the
1900's the library mostly held
school books and statistical publications, which was an early
Swedish specialty.
Today it is modern special library
for studies and research in the
field of addictions. The library was
early in adopting new technologies
and was computerized in the late
1970's. The systems and working
flows at that time was of course
much different from today. In the
1980's the library produced printed
bibliographies and literature lists
from a variety of sources which
were sent out to groups of researchers interested in the topics for
their professional work. Besides
this there was a regular reference,
loan and photocopy service.
In 2011 the library offers a wide
range of services to the users. It is
freely open to everyone for 25
hours per week. The typical user
is a student in social work, sociology or nursing studies who is
about to write a university paper
on addictions in one aspect or
another. Other users are researchers, secondary schools students,
social workers, journalists and
authors. The Swedish library network of all kinds of libraries also
use CAN library for interlibrary
loans. Sometimes loan requests
from neighbour countries like
Denmark, Finland or Norway are
made. Occasionally loan requests
come from other European countries
like Spain or the Czech republic!
This ancient poster from CAN
(1930) says: "This Santa Claus
gives no Christmas peace".
thesis and other printed materials
per year. Most of the literature is
published in Swedish with
English as the second language.
Important report series in Danish
and Norwegian are also available.
We offer an online catalogue avai- As a complement CAN library
lable on the Internet. It consists of acquires a lot of e-books today.
Many of them are reports, often
literature acquired to the library
from 1980 and onwards, currently available for free from authorities
and research institutes. Others are
some 15,000 books and other
more like a licensed database, for
printed material are found in the
example encyclopedias on addiccatalogue. Older literature is still
tions or sociology which can cost
in card catalogues. The library
system is a Scandinavian one cal- a lot of money.
led Mikromarc, based on MARC21
format which makes it compatible General reference material like
with the Swedish National Union “Nationalencyklopedin” (general
Catalogue LIBRIS. A big part of the Swedish encyclopedia), “Mediecollection is catalogued in LIBRIS, arkivet” (leading Swedish newsa service run by the Royal Library paper database) are also available
for in house use at CAN. For searwhich is the national library of
ching
in the scientific journals we
Sweden. Data from other library
are
holding
a collection of the most
catalogues like OCLC World Cat and
high-ranked
journals as e-journals
many European university library
available
on
EBSCO. We subscribe
catalogues can easily be imported
to
PsycI
NFO for covering the
to the local CAN catalogue.
social sciences and use PubMed
The library acquires approximately for the medical/ psychiatric aspects
of addiction information retrieval.
400 books, reports, academic
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ALL ADDICTIONS
Addictologie clinique
Clinical addictology
L'alcool, le tabac, les drogues et même
la nourriture peuvent devenir l'objet
d'une addiction. Les jeux et l'Internet
sont aussi devenus de redoutables produits toxiques, ainsi que le sport et le
travail. Ce livre est le fruit d'une collaboration entre les différentes approches
du phénomène épidémique pour ne
pas dire pandémique des conduites
d'addiction. Quand peut-on parler de
maladie ? Comment comprendre cette
pathologie ? Comment faire face à ces
troubles si nous ignorons leurs natures,
causes et fonctions ? L'être humain du
XXIe siècle n'est-il pas incité subtilement
à avoir recours à des produits ou des
comportements qui les aident à échapper à leurs conditions ? Ces évasions
doivent-elles faire l'objet d'une politique de répression ou d'une stratégie de
prévention et de prise en charge thérapeutique ? N'est-il pas illusoire de
penser le sevrage comme la résolution
des problèmes qui ont conduit un sujet
à être addicté ? Voilà
Publications
spécifiques du corps et de son image,
de la parole et de son énonciation, de
la pensée et de ses obsessions, ainsi
que de la dépendance. Ces phénomènes
pathologiques révèlent une tentative
du sujet pour trouver une vie plus supportable, ainsi de l'alcoolisme qui peut
masquer une tragédie mélancolique, et
manifestent deux faces, l'une témoigne
d'un ratage, l'autre de l'aspect créatif
du symptôme. Sans nier la première,
la psychanalyse peut suivre la veine
de la seconde pour ramener le sujet à
ce carrefour de sa vie où il a choisi de
combler la perte d'illusions par des
toxiques, un vide ou un trop plein.
de leur missions initiales : jouer, boire,
manger, acheter, se dépenser, travailler,
etc. Alors, tous dépendants ? Ce qui
caractériserait le vrai dépendant serait
cette polarisation, quand l'activité
devient le but d'une vie, quand la
mauvaise habitude se fait identité :
« je bois trop » vs « je suis alcoolique ».
Cet ouvrage interroge le sens des
addictions, analyse le mécanisme et
les symptômes et propose une synthèse
des différentes approches thérapeutiques
possibles pour en guérir.
Mathilde Saïet - PUF, mars 2011, 128p
- ISBN : 978-2130580553
www.puf.com/
Franz Kaltenbeck et al. - Erès, Savoirs
et clinique n° 13, mars 2011, 140p ISBN : 978-2749213767
www.editions-eres.com/
Adolescence et addictions : De
la crypte familiale au dispositif
en tuilage
Drogue et langage. Du corps et
de la langue
Drugs and language. From the body
and the tongue
Éric-Pierre Toubiana et al. - PUF, mars
2011, 800p - ISBN : 978-2130584278
www.puf.com/
Le monde des drogués ne repose pas
sur l'art oratoire, mais sur la promesse
d'une jouissance indicible. Les toxicomanies court-circuitent le rapport au
langage au profit d'une jouissance du
corps et de l'esprit. Elles sont en cela
des conduites modernes et témoignent
de ce que devient le rapport au langage
aujourd'hui.
De bouche à oreille : psychanalyse des comportements
alimentaires et des addictions
Jean-Louis Chassaing et Marta Conte
- Erès, mai 2011, 240p - ISBN : 9782749213026
www.editions-eres.com/
Word of mouth: psychoanalysis of
eating behaviors and addictions
Les addictions
les questions auxquelles ce livre tente
de répondre.
Les troubles alimentaires et les addictions présentent des traits communs.
Les anorexies et les boulimies manifestent une perturbation de l'oralité :
les unes pèchent par excès, les autres
par privation. D'autres addictions passent, elles aussi, par la voie orale :
l'absorption de drogues et l'abus de
médicaments. Mais ces addictions ne
se réduisent pas à des pathologies de
l'oralité : s'y ajoutent les problèmes
Addictions
De toutes les conduites psychopathologiques, l'addiction est peut-être celle
qui interroge le plus les limites entre
le normal et le pathologique. La frontière entre ce qui relève des « mauvaises habitudes », des dépendances ordinaires et des vraies dépendances est
difficile à tracer. Les addictions sont
presque toujours des conduites engendrées à partir d'actes ordinaires déviés
Adolescence and addiction: From
the family crypt to the “curl up”
programme
À partir d’addictions peu traitées
(jeux, conduites sexuelles à risques,
scarifications et polytoxicomanies), ce
livre en interroge les soubassements
psychiques et envisage le comportement du point de vue de son origine et
de sa finalité. Il met en évidence la
place centrale du transgénérationnel,
avec ses cryptes et ses fantômes en
tant que résurgences traumatiques de
l'histoire familiale. Il propose un dispositif clinique groupal nommé dispositif en tuilage qui consiste en la mise
en place d'un réseau pluridisciplinaire
qui établit un maillage protecteur
autour d'un adolescent en souffrance
et de sa famille. La malléabilité de ce
cadre sur mesure restitue à chacun sa
place, permettant ainsi un processus
de différenciation et de reconnaissance
qui rend possible, à la longue, l'abandon du symptôme. Les addictions sont
approchées non pas sur un versant
destructeur, mais sous celui d'un processus de reconstruction personnelle à
partir d'expériences parfois extrêmes.
Gérard Durastante - De Boeck, février
2011, 304p - ISBN : 978-2804163242
http://superieur.deboeck.com/
Les histoires des toxicomanes.
Récits et identités dans les
addictions
Stories of drug addicts. Narratives
and identities in the addiction field
Ce livre propose de considérer les
addictions comme des constructions
narratives. Mais quels en sont les
auteurs et les narrateurs ? Les lecteurs,
les auditeurs et les spectateurs ? Les
patients ou les professionnels ? À partir d'une recherche menée avec des
patients toxicomanes, ce livre souligne
leur besoin d'être secourus par la littérature au sens large pour construire
leurs identités et organiser leurs expériences temporelles. Mais l'équilibre
est fragile entre des dispositifs de
soins illisibles empêchant toute configuration de la souffrance ou trop lisibles
fabriquant des patients uniformes et
indifférenciés. Pour éviter l'émergence
d'une addictologie désubjectivante, ce
livre invite les professionnels à prendre en compte le cercle de la mimèsis
entre les histoires des patients et les
modèles théoriques et cliniques.
Olivier Taïeb - Presses Universitaires
de France (Puf), janvier 2011, 392p ISBN : 978-2130585534
www.puf.com/
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Drug policies, addiction
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Twelve steps toward political
revelation
In his early twenties, the author was
addicted to alcohol and cigarettes.
Drawing from this intimate knowledge
of addiction and recovery, he explores
the deviances of contemporary America
and describes a society in thrall to its
own consumption. Although Americans
live in the richest country, many citizens
exist on the brink of poverty, and from
that profound economic inequality
stems self-destructive behavior. This
book outlines a guide to recovery from
oppression. First we must identify the
problems that surround us. Next we
must actively work together to create
a just, more holistic society. And
finally, power must be returned to the
embrace of the people.
Walter Mosley - Nation Books, April
2011, 112p - ISBN: 978-1568586427
www.nationbooks.org/
Rückfallprävention für Chronisch
Mehrfachgeschädigte
Abhängigkeitskranke
Relapse prevention for patients
having chronic & multiple addictions
Dieses Buch für Chronisch Mehrfachgeschädigte Abhängigkeitskranke (CMA)
aufgrund der Chronifizierung der
Abhängigkeit um ein Vielfaches höher
als bei anderen Abhängigen. Deshalb
ist dauerhafte Abstinenz von entscheidender Bedeutung. Ausschlaggebend
dafür ist die Rückgewinnung sozialer
Integration. Wegen der Besonderheit
der Situation von CMA geht es insbesondere um die Integration in soziale
Beziehungen, die Abstinenz fördernd
sind, und möglichst zu Personen, die
selbst abstinent leben. Die Autoren
vertreten die Auffassung, dass gewisse
kognitive Fähigkeiten vorhanden sein
müssen, um Abstinenz fördernde
Anreize aus den sozialen Beziehungen
aufzunehmen und für die Selbststeuerung zu verarbeiten.
Hans-Jürgen Leonhardt, Kurt Mühler
- Lambertus Verlag, Dec 2010, 204
Seiten - ISBN : 978-3784120126
www.lambertus.de/
This book discusses research in the
study of drug policies, the effects of
substance abuse and addiction and the
efforts being made to stop the flow of
illegal drugs into the US. Topics discussed include the International Drug
Control Policy; Mexico's drug cartels;
US assistance to curve the flow of illicit drugs being brought into the country; self-regulation in the alcohol
industry and alcohol treatment.
David S Wolf, Kathryn J Schuster Nova Science Pub., June/July 2011 ISBN: 9781612090856
www.novapublishers.com/
Drug trade, trafficking
and policies
A drug policy most often refers to a
government's attempt to combat the
negative effects of drug addiction and
misuse in its society. Governments try
to combat drug addiction with policies
which address both the demand and
supply of drugs, as well as policies
which can mitigate the harms of drug
abuse. This book examines various
drug policies, with a particular focus
on drug trade and trafficking.
Megan Griffiths, Dylan Richards Nova Science Pub., June 2011 - ISBN:
978-1611229325
International drug control and
trafficking issues
Revenue from the illegal drug industry
provides international drug trafficking
organizations with the resources to
evade and compete with law enforcement officials; penetrate legitimate
economic structures through money
laundering; and, in some instances,
challenge the authority of national
governments. This book provides an
overview of US international drug
control policy. It describes major counternarcotics initiatives and evaluates
the broad array of US drug control
policy tools currently in use.
Allison N Meehan et al.- Nova Science,
June 2011 - ISBN: 978-1612095646
Dealing with drugs. Control,
prevention and treatment
Federal domestic drug control policy
has evolved over the course of the
past century and currently consists of
a three-pronged approach to reducing
illegal drug use: prevention, substance
abuse treatment and enforcement activities. This book examines the war on
drugs and drug enforcement efforts;
the national youth anti-drug media
campaign; the background and effectiveness of the drug courts and the legal
issues relating to the disposal of dispensed controlled substances.
Courtney M Blanchard - Nova Science
Pub., June 2011 - ISBN: 9781612093499
Deviant globalization:
Black market economy
in the 21st Century
This volume argues that far from
being marginal, illicit activities are a
fundamental part of globalization.
Narcotrafficking, human trafficking,
organ trade, transnational gangs are
just as much artifacts of globalization
as are CNN and McDonald's, capital
mobility, accessible air travel and
container shipping. In fact, almost
every technology, and regulation that
enables mainstream globalization is an
enabler of deviant globalization. This
book explains why understanding
deviant globalization as a systemic
and integral part of globalization is
crucial for setting up policies that will
maximize the benefits of globalization
and minimize its ill effects. Going
beyond the usual pro/con arguments
about globalization, it seeks to initiate
a critical debate about the choices it
presents to governments, firms, supranational organizations, and individuals. It offers a systematic treatment
of the difficult policy choices that it
creates and describes a much more
complex and symbiotic relationship
between illicit and mainstream globalization.
Jesse Goldhammer, Steven Weber &
Nils Gilman - Continuum Publishing
Corporation, May 2011, 320p - ISBN:
978-1441178107
www.continuumbooks.com/
Les tribulations d'un gramme
de coke
The tribulations of a gram of coke
Ce livre aborde, au travers d'un périlleux voyage, un tabou : la légalisation
des drogues. Cultivateurs de coca,
apprentis chimistes, familles de
marins transporteurs, « mules », dealers européens, consommateurs parisiens, tous parlent sans détours du plus
gros négoce illégal au monde. Des
troupes héliportées débarquent dans la
forêt tropicale, des portes de prison
claquent derrière les passeurs tombés
dans un pays inconnu. Un avion
s'écrase dans le Sahel, des immigrants
clandestins sont torturés jusqu'à la
mort par les cartels mexicains. Dans le
port colombien de Tumaco, où débute
ce voyage, un médecin-légiste erre en
moto entre les tombes et compte les
morts. Policiers et militaires s'essoufflent. Cette guerre dure depuis 40 ans
et des milliards de dollars y ont été
engloutis pour rien : le nombre de
consommateurs de stupéfiants augmente dans le monde entier.
L'interdiction ne les protège pas. Des
personnalités politiques se joignent
aux économistes et aux médecins pour
demander la décriminalisation des
drogues pour mettre fin au massacre
mené en leur nom. Loin de faire l'apologie de la cocaïne, les auteurs posent
une question lancinante : la prohibition des drogues ne tue-t-elle pas
davantage que les drogues ellesmêmes ?
Christine Renaudat & Vincent
Taillefumier - Éd. Florent Massot,
février 2011, 288p - ISBN : 9782916546841
www.florentmassot.com/
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Coke à bord : En voilier, en
hors-bord, en sous-marin, j'ai
transporté la drogue des cartels
Coke on board: In sailing,
speedboat, submarine, I carried
the cartels' drugs
En 1977, l'auteur a 20 ans : il est parti
à la recherche d'aventures en Amérique
du Sud, et va petit à petit mettre ses
talents de navigateur au service des
narcotrafiquants. Voiliers, hors-bords
surpuissants, il ouvre la plupart des
routes de la drogue, commençant avec
la marijuana, pour très vite passer à la
cocaïne. D'aventures en aventures, il
sillonne la Colombie, le Mexique,
l'Amérique Centrale et les États-Unis.
Il côtoie entre autres : Pablo Escobar,
les frères Ochoa, les membres du cartel de Medellín et de Cali, les dirigeants des FARC… Au début des
années 2000, il a une idée qui va révolutionner le trafic et faire la fortune
des narcos : il invente des sous-marins
invisibles aux radars capables de transporter plusieurs tonnes de cocaïne. Les
Américains craignent que les cartels
n'utilisent cette technologie pour acheminer une arme de destruction massive dans un port. L'auteur est alors
très recherché par la CIA. Il se rend
aux services secrets américains et livre
sa technologie. Il a fini de purger sa
peine de prison en France en 2008 où
il a écrit ce livre. Il vit aujourd'hui au
secret en Europe.
Yann Tassin - La Manufacture de
livres, avril 2011, 384p - ISBN : 9782358870252
www.lamanufacturedelivres.com/
El Sicario. The autobiography
of a Mexican assassin
El Sicario is the hidden face of
America's war on drugs: a contract
killer who functioned as a comandante
in the Chihuahuan State police, attended an FBI training course in the US,
and who, for 20 years, kidnapped, tortured, and murdered people targeted
by the Mexican drug cartels. Then he
left the killing fields alive and turned
to Christ. Now, living as a fugitive
with a cartel contract on his life, he
tells his story. He describes not only
torture and murder, but also the total
corruption of the Mexican State. In
this world, terror and slaughter are
simply tools in implementing policy
for both the cartels and the police.
When he headed the state police antikidnapping squad in Juárez, he was
also running a kidnapping ring in
Juárez. When he was killing people
for money in Juárez, he was sharpening his marksmanship at the Federal
Police range. He speaks as a free man
and of his own free will: there are no
criminal charges against him in the
US or Mexico. He speaks the truth no
one wants to hear.
Charles Bowden, Molly Molloy Nation Books, May 2011, 224p - ISBN:
978-1568586588
www.nationbooks.org/
Narco business. L'irrésistible
ascension des mafias mexicaines
Narco business. The irresistible rise
of the Mexican mafia
L'entreprise la plus prospère du
Mexique n'est pas inscrite au registre
légal du commerce. C'est un consortium de cartels de la drogue qui inonde
le marché mondial de produits illicites, de la cocaïne aux drogues de synthèse en passant par l'héroïne, et dont
l'argent a infiltré 81 % du tissu économique et social du pays. En quatre
générations, les petits contrebandiers
mexicains des années 1920 se sont
transformés en puissances mafieuses
et financières. Ils ne sont plus des artisans mais des patrons de multinationales, en costume-cravate, qui habitent
les quartiers huppés. Cette enquête
nous plonge au cœur du narco-business mexicain. L'auteur dresse le portrait de ces hommes devenus des hommes d'affaires millionnaires qui éliminent de sang-froid ceux qui les gênent
: juges, policiers, procureurs, journalistes, hommes politiques et concurrents. À travers ce récit, c'est aussi un
pays qui se dessine : la violence quotidienne, l'immigration, la pauvreté, la
corruption, la politique et la question
de son avenir : narco-dictature ou État
de droit ?
Babette Stern - Max Milo Éd., avril
2011, 256p - ISBN : 978-2315002825
www.maxmilo.com/
La guerre des paysans en
Colombie. De l'autodéfense
agraire à la guérilla des FARC
The peasant war in Colombia. From
the agrarian self-defense to the
FARC guerrillas
Cet ouvrage fait le point sur la guérilla
des FARC en la replaçant dans le contexte des luttes agraires et du faible
développement du mouvement ouvrier.
Il montre comment elles sont le produit des luttes des petits paysans
contre les grands propriétaires dans le
contexte de la guerre civile des années
1950 et comment, après avoir failli
disparaître, elles sont parvenues au
faîte de leur puissance à la fin des
années 1990, en s'impliquant de
manière croissante dans l'économie de
la cocaïne tout en soutenant les luttes
paysannes contre les paramilitaires.
L'ouvrage montre aussi comment l'intervention des États-Unis (Plan Colombie), en conférant une supériorité à
l'État sur le plan militaire, plonge les
FARC dans une crise ininterrompue
depuis quelques années, qui risque
d'aboutir à leur éclatement. Il met en
évidence les contradictions d'une
guerilla victime de choix de luttes
discutables inspirés de son idéologie
stalinienne et de compromis douteux
avec la narcocriminalité.
Michel Gandilhon - Les Nuits rouges,
mai 2011, 216p - ISBN : 9782913112452
http://les.nuits.rouges.free.fr/
Drugs and culture. Knowledge,
consumption and policy
Current approaches to drugs tend to be
determined by medical and criminal
visions that emerged over a century ago.
Pathologization and criminalization
are the dominant perspectives on psychoactive drugs. This book presents
other understandings, highlighting the
socio-cultural features of drug use and
regulation in modern societies. It examines the cultural dimensions of drugs
and their regulation, with special
attention to questions of how consumption of specific psychoactive substances
becomes associated with particular
social groups; the social dynamics
involved in our coming to think of
these phenomena as we do; and the
factors that determine the political and
policy responses to drug use. Adopting
approaches from anthropology, sociology, history, political science and
geopolitics to challenge the prevailing
pathologization and criminalization of
drug use, this book provides international and comparative perspectives
on drug research, based on the latest
research in Europe, the USA, the
Middle East and Hong Kong.
Geoffrey Hunt, Henri Bergeron,
Maitena Milhet - Ashgate, May 2011,
324p - ISBN: 978-1409405436
www.ashgate.com/
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Illicit drugs in the environment:
Occurrence, analysis, and fate
using mass spectrometry
Illicit drugs are an emerging class of
environmental contaminants and mass
spectrometry is the technique of choice
for their analysis. This book discusses
the techniques used to detect illicit
drugs in wastewater and surface water,
details how to estimate the levels of
contaminants in the environment, and
explores the behavior, fate, and toxic
effects of this new class of contaminants. It details how an estimate of
illicit drug consumption in a given
population can be developed from an
analysis of the residues of illicit drugs
in wastewater. A resource for analytical
chemists, environmental researchers,
scientists, biologists, and toxicologists.
Sara Castiglioni, Ettore Zuccato &
Roberto Fanelli - Wiley-Blackwell, May
2011, 368p - ISBN: 978-0470529546
http://eu.wiley.com/
Inhibitory control and drug
abuse prevention. From
research to translation
Some recent findings about drug
abuse come from research into behavioral inhibitory control processes:
individuals with substance use disorders have inhibitory control deficiencies compared to non-abusers, and the
impulsivity associated with adolescence may account for young people's
vulnerability toward drug-taking behavior. But while this neurobiological
approach has influenced the treatment
of addiction, it has had only minor
effect on prevention efforts. This book
aims to correct this situation, synthesizing what we know about the neuromechanics of risk-taking, and mining
its ample potential in addiction prevention. It reviews neurobehavioral
studies regarding inhibitory control in
humans and laboratory animals, discuss their implications for age groups
at risk for impulse control deficits, and
apply these findings to the development of innovative, effective prevention strategies.
Michael T Bardo, Diana H Fishbein,
Richard Milich - Springer, June 2011,
335p - ISBN: 978-1441912671
www.springer.com/
Substance abuse among
adolescents and adults
This book examines certain cases
where social and psychological issues
are present among adolescents and
adults with substance abuse problems.
Topics discussed include cross-cultural parent-child relations; prevention
strategies for parents on adolescent
smoking; the national youth anti-drug
media campaign; cocaine-dependent
patients with antisocial personality
disorder and cognitive performance in
chronic street drug users.
Isabelle Giordano - Nova Science Pub.,
April 2011 - ISBN: 978-1611229332
Crystal death: North America's
most dangerous drug
A hard-hitting look at the most dangerous illegal drug in North America. A
fact-based account featuring up to the
minute interviews and life stories from
users, dealers and doctors, with a
Canadian perspective on the problem
and its potential solutions. A book for
teachers, parents and anyone interested
in this devastating drug. Includes
advice on how to talk effectively to
your children and students about
methamphetamine - and how not to!
Nate Hendley - Five Rivers Chapmanry,
June 2011, 132p - ISBN: 978-0973927832
www.5rivers.org/
Cocaine's impact on affect,
activity & reward is dosedependently impacted by age
This book examines the impact of
different doses of cocaine on three
interrelated measures related to affective behaviours between adolescent
and adult in order to assess the range
of rewarding responses, measure of
despair, activity, and reward were used.
Such methods included the forced
swim test (FST), motor activity (MA),
and the conditioned place preference
(CPP) tests, respectively. Cocaine was
selected because of its robust psychostimulant properties, its use by millions
odf abusers, and its well understood
mechanism of action. This study helps
to explain some of the neurobiological
underpinnings of these finding because
cocaine was especially effective in
reducing despair-related behaviour in
adolescence compared with adults, yet
less effective in as an euphoric agent.
Brian M Kelley, Candace E Perry,
Hillary A Hershey & Adrianna L
Baird - Nova Science Pub., June 2011
- ISBN: 978-1611227444
La France face a la cocaine:
Dispositif et action exterieurs
France facing cocaine: External
procedure and action
Depuis la fin des années 1990, la
cocaïne est une drogue de plus en plus
disponible sur le marché français : elle
a un prix attractif et une image positive,
celle d'une drogue festive et peu dangereuse. Sa consommation s'est démocratisée, touchant aussi bien la haute
bourgeoisie que le chômeur de longue
durée. La Colombie, la Bolivie et le
Pérou en exportent des quantités croissantes sur un marché français en pleine
expansion, alors que sa consommation
semble désormais stagner aux ÉtatsUnis. Face à des réseaux de mieux en
mieux structurés et profitant pleinement du processus de mondialisation
des échanges, le dispositif français de
lutte contre le trafic international de
cocaïne s'est adapté, en orientant ses
structures répressives vers plus de
coopération bilatérale et, depuis peu,
multilatérale. Ce livre permet de mieux
comprendre la lutte contre le trafic de
cocaïne et les politiques publiques
mises en oeuvre pour y répondre.
Aurélien Llorca - L' Harmattan, fev.
2011, 134p - ISBN : 978-2296542686
www.editions-harmattan.fr/
Cognitive-behavioral
interventions for emotional and
behavioral disorders: schoolbased practice
Evidence based and practical, this
book presents state-of-the-science
approaches for helping K-12 students
who struggle with aggressive behaviors, anxiety, dependency, depression, ADHD, and autism. It explains the
fundamentals of cognitive-behavioral
intervention and reviews exemplary
programs that offer powerful ways to
reach at-risk children and adolescents.
Leading authorities thoroughly describe
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the process of assessment, treatment
implementation, and program evaluation. What makes the book unique is
its focus on the nitty-gritty of schoolbased intervention, including how to
integrate mental health services into
the education system, and provide
skills to school personnel.
Matthew J Mayer, Richard Van Acker,
John E Lochman & Frank M Gresham
- Guilford Press, March 2011, 420p ISBN: 978-1609184810
www.guilford.com/
Steroids and other performanceenhancing drugs
Discusses performance-enhancing
drugs, explaining their history, effect
on the body, reasons for use, laws that
control their use, their use by amateur
and professional athletes, their medical benefits when used properly, the
addiction they create, the damages
they do when abused, and how to stop
using them. Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Suellen May - Chelsea House imprint
(Series: Understanding Drugs), June
2011, 112p - ISBN: 978-1604135527
www.infobasepublishing.com/
Psychische Störungen
bei Mitarbeitern
Drogues : Pourquoi
la légalisation est inévitable
Mental disorders at the work place
Psychische Störungen wie Ängste,
Depressionen oder Abhängigkeiten
sind heute einer der häufigsten Gründe
für Fehltage und Berufsunfähigkeiten
von Arbeitnehmern. Dieses Buch liefert verständliches Grundwissen zu
psychischen Störungen für Führungs
kräfte und Personalverantwortliche,
hilft bei der Früherkennung von
Fehlbelastungen und gibt handfeste
Tipps zum Umgang mit gefährdeten
Mitarbeitern, zur Prävention im Unternehmen und zur Wiedereingliederung.
Gedanken-Experimente und Reflexionsfragen helfen, den Blick zu schärfen;
ausführliche Checklisten unterstützen
bei der Implementierung der Maßnahmen. Der Betrieb entwickelt leistungsfähige und engagierte Mitarbeiter mit
geringen Fehl-zeiten, die Träger der
Sozialversicherung werden entlastet,
die Beiträge bleiben stabil und die
Lohnnebenkosten geringer.
Ina Riechert - Springer, April 2011,
246 S. - ISBN: 978-3642169793
www.springer.com
Drugs: Why legalisation is inevitable
Géopolitique des drogues
The geopolicy of drugs
La prévention de l'usage des drogues
et la lutte contre leur trafic international
doivent être replacées dans le contexte
plus vaste de la géopolitique. Gouvernements, groupes insurgés ou organisations criminelles et terroristes se disputent les ressources des zones de culture du pavot, de la coca et du cannabis,
ainsi que les routes d'acheminement
des substances illicites auxquelles se
sont ajoutées les drogues de synthèse.
Ce livre offre les clés pour déchiffrer
ces enjeux économiques et stratégiques
et pour comprendre comment la guerre
à la drogue est devenue un instrument
au service de politiques sécuritaires,
commerciales ou expansionnistes.
Alain Labrousse - PUF, février 2011,
128p - ISBN : 978-2130586128
www.puf.com/
Pour en finir avec les dealers
The Emperor's new drugs.
Exploding the antidepressant
myth
Let's get it over with dealers
In this book, the author argues that
antidepressant drugs are not effective
and that the idea of depression as a
chemical imbalance in the brain is
pure myth. Antidepressants are significantly more dangerous than other
forms of treatment and are only marginally more effective than placebo
pills. Based on 15 years of research,
this book makes an overwhelming
case that what the medical community
considered a cornerstone of psychiatric treatment is little more than a
faulty consensus. But the author does
more than just criticize: he offers a
path society can follow to stop popping pills and start proper treatment.
Aujourd'hui, en France, on tue pour
quelques euros. Le marché du cannabis génère plusieurs milliards d'euros
de chiffre d'affaires. L'argent facile
dans un monde en crise, attire des jeunes prêts à tuer. Comment en sommesnous arrivés à cette folie ? Après 30
années d'abandon du politique dans les
banlieues, Stéphane Gatignon, maire
de Sevran, et Serge Supersac, ancien
flic de terrain, donnent les raisons de
ce chaos. Rester dans la logique
actuelle, c'est s'acheminer vers une
véritable guerre des gangs. Pour en
finir avec les dealers, il faut sortir de
la prohibition. La délinquance surmédiatisée, les enjeux de santé publique
et d'économie, doivent inciter à agir
avant qu'il ne soit trop tard.
Irving Kirsch - Basic Books reprint /
Perseus Group, March 2011, 240p ISBN: 978-0465022007
www.perseusbooksgroup.com/
Stéphane Gatignon & Serge Supersac
- Grasset & Fasquelle, avril 2011,
224p - ISBN : 978-2246783596
www.grasset.fr/
De nombreux responsables de la lutte
antidrogue l'affirment : cette guerre est
irrémédiablement perdue. Les drogues
sont aujourd'hui moins chères et plus
faciles à trouver. La prohibition n'a
qu'un bénéficiaire incontestable : le
trafiquant, dont elle est l'alliée objective. Mais alors, faut-il légaliser les
drogues ? Et si oui, à quelles conditions ? Ce livre apporte une réponse
très documentée, lucide, sans polémique ni provocation.
Michel Henry - Éd. Denoël, janvier
2011, 240p - ISBN : 978-2207101209
www.denoel.fr/
Philosophie pratique de la drogue
Practical philosophy on drug use
Comment devient-on dépendant aux
drogues et autres produits psychoactifs ? Comment s'en sortir ? Que
valent les politiques publiques de la
drogue ? Telles sont les questions
abordées dans cet ouvrage, traitées à
partir de témoignages d'usagers,
recueillis à Paris et à New York.
Témoins privilégiés des conditions
individuelles, sociales et neuropsychiques d'entrée dans un parcours addictif, les anciens usagers revendiquent
leur liberté d'avoir consommé, pour
leur bien-être, des produits dangereux,
tout en rendant compte des dégâts qui
ont pu en découler. À l'éthique de la
drogue succède une éthique de la sortie qu'on cherche à garantir par de
nouvelles habitudes et de nouveaux
engagements. La philosophie pratique
de la drogue qui ressort de ces témoignages est libertaire sur un plan individuel, mais collectivement responsable, en termes notamment de prévention, de réduction des dommages et
d'accompagnement des usagers. Cette
posture implique une reconsidération
des politiques répressives mais largement impuissantes devant le phénomène social de l'addiction, qui n'a
cessé de croître avec le développement des sociétés marchandes.
Patrick Pharo - Éd. du Cerf, avril
2011, 402p - ISBN : 978-2204093026
www.editionsducerf.fr/
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The essential guide to problem
substance use during pregnancy
Circles of recovery. Self-help
organizations for addictions
A reference guide for practitioners
who provide care to women who use
drugs or alcohol before or during their
pregnancy. It establishes a 'framework
for care' synthesising the latest good
practice advice, guidelines and research
knowledge, so that all women who use
drugs and/or alcohol can be offered
appropriate support before, during and
after the birth of their baby. Information
and intervention strategies are provided
on topics such as antenatal care, the
management of substance use during
pregnancy, Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS), breastfeeding, postnatal
care, management of risk, and child
welfare concerns during pregnancy.
Self-help organizations such as AA,
The Links, Moderation Management,
Narcotics Anonymous, SMART Recovery,
have attracted millions of individuals
seeking to address addiction problems
with drugs or alcohol. The book provides an integrative, international review
of research on these organizations,
focusing in particular on the critical
questions of how they affect individual members and whether self-help
groups and formal health care systems
can work together to combat substance
abuse. It reviews over 500 studies into
the efficacy of self-help groups as an
alternative and voluntary form of
treatment. In addition, it provides
practical strategies for how individual
clinicians and treatment systems can
interact with self-help groups in a way
that improves outcomes for patients
and for communities as a whole.
Anne Whittaker - DrugScope, 3rd ed.,
June 2011, 224p - ISBN: 978-1904319535
www.hit.org.uk/
Philanthropy of George Soros.
Building open societies
Any professional working in the illicit
drugs field knows George Soros as the
founder of the Drug Policy Alliance.
In fact, he is one of the world's leading
philanthropists: over the past 30 years,
he has provided more than $8 billion
to his network, known as the Open
Society Foundations for many projects
around the world. This book details
his philanthropy, and explains the
innovative ways his Foundations have
supported the concept of open society,
the cornerstone of Soros's commitment
to democracy, justice, and human rights.
Chuck Sudetic - Public Affairs, May
2011, 384p - ISBN: 978-1586488222
www.publicaffairsbooks.com/
DRUGS & ALCOHOL
Alcohol & drug use among youth
The book presents new research findings in the study of alcohol and drug
use among youth. Topics discussed
include the quantity and frequency of
alcohol use among underage drinkers;
findings from surveys on drug use;
young people who tend to drink how
they are obtaining alcohol, and rural
middle school counselors' competency
for addressing student substance abuse.
Agatha M Pichler - Nova Science Pub.,
June 2011 - ISBN: 978-1612090849
Keith Humphreys - Cambridge Univ.
Press, March 2011, 240p - ISBN: 9780521176378
www.cambridge.org
ALCOHOL
Alcohol nation:
How to protect our children
from today's drinking culture
We are a nation that loves to drink,
and we're passing the habit on to our
children. But a growing body of new
evidence about the dangers of alcohol
consumption at a young age will force
us to reconsider the way we view
alcohol and young people. As parents,
we need to talk to our children about
alcohol but many of us are not sure
what to say. This book ties up all the
latest research and puts them into
context. He addresses drinking not just
as a teenage problem but as an integral part of our history and culture. It
will lead us to understand how the
way we view alcohol impacts directly
upon our children's present and future
health, and academic success, and it
will answer the question, “how can I
reconcile my enjoyment of drinking
with ensuring my child grows up
knowing how to drink sensibly?”.
Aric Sigman - Piatkus Books, June
2011, 288p - ISBN: 978-0749954284
www.piatkus.co.uk/
Generation Alkopops.
Jugendliche zwischen
Marketing, Medien und Milieu
Generation of alcopops. Young people
between marketing, media and environment
Sie sind arbeitslos, gewaltbereit, ohne
jede Moral und vor allem sind sie
Komasäufer und nehmen Drogen - so
ist das Bild von Kindern und Jugendlichen, das medial vermittelt wird. Die
Autoren geben mit ihren Beiträgen
Impulse, die Lebensbedingungen von
Kindern und Jugendlichen differenzierter wahrzunehmen und darzustellen.
Sie eröffnen darüber hinaus Perspektiven für die Weiterentwicklung und
Gestaltung von Präventionsund
Hilfeangeboten.
Gabriele Bartsch & Raphael Gaßmann
- Lambertus, Dec 2010, 136 Seiten ISBN : 978-3784120065
www.lambertus.de/
Young people & alcohol
This volume aims to be a practical
reference for professionals in the field
of alcohol misuse who work with people aged 12 to 25 years. It provides
from a range of professional backgrounds with up to date information
about the effects of alcohol use in the
young and its management, with an
emphasis on interventions whose
effectiveness is supported by evidence.
Written by an internationally renowned
team of contributors, chapters span
five key sections: the phenomenon
and impact of youth drinking; neurobiology; prevention and early intervention; assessment and diagnosis;
and treatment.
John Saunders & Joseph Rey - WileyBlackwell, May 2011, 384p - ISBN:
978-1444335989
Alcohol, pregnancy
and the developing child
This is a re-edition of a book published
in 1996, which was the first to review
the relationship between maternal
alcohol abuse during pregnancy and
the resulting in utero damage to the
child, and the results of this damage
during the development of affected
children. The first part of the book
discusses clinical issues of alcohol
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teratogenicity, the clinical picture of
fetal alcohol syndrome, and the epidemiology of maternal alcohol abuse
and the developmental outcome of the
children. The second part addresses
pathogenesis and neuropathology, whilst
part three reviews developmental
issues in the growing child. The final
part evaluates approaches to rehabilitation and intervention, and reviews
social and public health issues.
Hans-Ludwig Spohr, Hans-Christoph
Steinhausen et al. - Cambridge Univ.
Press, June 2011, 326p - ISBN: 9780521282345
www.cambridge.org
Recovery A to Z:
A handbook of twelve-step key
terms and phrases
This recovery-oriented compendium
written by people in recovery for people in recovery, defines words, phrases, and slogans commonly used in
twelve-step programs. Also included
are chapters on: Meeting and fellowship etiquette.- FAQs. - Character
defects and manifestations. Useful for
people in twelve-step recovery.
Central Recovery Press, 2nd ed., June
2011, 256p - ISBN: 978-1936290048
www.centralrecoverypress.com/
TOBACCO & ALCOHOL
Trade and public health. The
WTO, tobacco, alcohol, and diet
Non-communicable diseases, associated with risk factors such as tobacco
consumption, poor diet and alcohol
use, represent a growing health burden
around the world. The seriousness of
non-communicable diseases is reflected in the adoption of international
instruments such as the WHO
Framework convention on tobacco
control, the WHO Global strategy on
diet, and the WHO Global strategy to
reduce the harmful use of alcohol. In
line with these instruments, states are
beginning to use measures such as
taxes, restrictions on marketing, product regulation and labeling measures
for public health purposes. This book
examines the extent to which the law
of the World Trade Organization
(WTO) restricts domestic implementation of these types of measures. The
relationship between international
health instruments and the WTO
Agreement is examined, as are the
WTO covered agreements themselves.
Benn McGrady - Cambridge Univ.
Press, May 2011, 340p - ISBN:: 9781107008410
www.cambridge.org
GAMBLING / INTERNET
Get rid of gambling.
Overcome one of the most
difficult addictions today
All problem gamblers believe that
prolonged gambling provides them
with a chance to get out of debt with
that ever elusive 'one big win'. This
erroneous belief is one that a problem
gambler has to drop from a great
height if they're to have any chance of
success. This eBook offers a solution
that will help gamblers to stop their
addiction. It covers: Why we get into
bad gambling habits.- Why gambling
won't fix debt.- What occurs.- Steps to
overcome the habit.- Abstention or
command and the journey.- And more!
Mya Diaz - Kindle eBook / Amazon
Media EU, 248 KB - ASIN: B005286I3S
www.amazon.co.uk/
Prévenir le jeu excessif dans
une société addictive : D'une
approche bio-psycho-sociale à
la définition d'une politique de
santé publique
Preventing excessive gambling in an
addictive society: From a bio-psycho-social approach to the definition
of a public health policy
Qu'est-ce que le jeu excessif ? Quelle
compréhension pouvons-nous en avoir
dans une perspective bio-psychosociale ? Ces connaissances aurontelles un impact sur nos interventions ?
Nos sociétés ne contribuent-elles pas à
favoriser les conduites addictives dans
leur paradigme consumériste ? Cet
ouvrage, qui regroupe les principaux
acteurs dans ce domaine au niveau
européen et international, permet d'appréhender cette problématique tant au
niveau historique, que diagnostique ou
épidémiologique, pour les différents
types de jeux, et ce depuis les neurosciences jusqu'à la santé publique,
décrivant les différentes politiques
nationales, les interactions avec l'industrie du jeu en termes de développement durable, les programmes de prévention et de thérapie, et les nouvelles
approches.
Olivier Simon, Margret Rhis-Middel,
Caroline Dunand - Groupe Médecine
et Hygiène (Suisse), nov. 2010, 320p ISBN : 978-2880492915
www.medhyg.ch/
Gefangen im Netz? Onlinesucht:
Chats, Onlinespiele, Cybersex
Caught in the net? Online addiction:
chats, online games, cybersex
Das Internet hat neue Formen von
Suchtverhalten hervorgebracht, die
sich schnell ausbreiten. Erstmals werden in diesem Buch Onlinechat-,
Onlinespiel- und Onlinesex-Sucht und
deren Facetten beleuchtet. Was ist
das? Bin ich süchtig? Was genau sind
die Symptome? Was können Angehörige, Eltern, Lehrer und Fachpersonal
dagegen tun? Nicht jeder, der lange
Zeit am PC verbringt, muss gleich
onlinesüchtig sein. Dennoch lohnt sich
ein zweiter Blick, denn oft wird die
Onlinesucht zunächst von Angehörigen
und Freunden erkannt. Aber noch
immer ist die Onlinesucht nicht als
Krankheit anerkannt. Hier berichten
die Betroffenen selbst über ihr Leid,
und Fachleute bieten konkreten Rat
und Hilfe an.
Gabriele Farke - Huber Hans, Juni
2011, 154 S. - ISBN: 978-3456849430
www.verlag-hanshuber.com/
Glücksspiel und Spielerschutz in
Österreich. Empirische Erkenntnisse
zum Spielverhalten der Bevölkerung
und zur Prävention der
Glücksspielsucht
Gambling and prevention in Austria.
Empirical findings on the gambling
behaviour and the prevention of
gambling addiction
In Österreich lagen bisher kaum empirische Erkenntnisse über die Glücksspielteilnahme und -probleme der
Bevölkerung sowie spezieller Spielergruppen vor. Deshalb wurde eine
mehrmodulare Studie durchgeführt, in
der unter anderem die Allgemeinbevölkerung, Automaten- und Onlinespieler
sowie das Personal von Glücksspielanbietern befragt worden sind. Auf der
Grundlage dieser empirischen
Ergebnisse werden Empfehlungen für
verhaltens- und verhältnispräventive
Maßnahmen für das Glücksspielwesen
in Österreich formuliert.
Jens Kalke, Sven Buth, Moritz Rosenkranz, Christian Schütze, Harald
Oechsler, Uwe Verthein - Lambertus,
Mai 2011, 338 Seiten - ISBN : 9783784120416
www.lambertus.de/default.asp
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Forthcoming books July/December 2011
ALL ADDICTIONS
Addictions
This 2nd edition builds on the success
of the first one, incorporating advances
in research and practice over the last
ten years. The book includes material
on: the nature of addiction and who
becomes addicted; health consequences of alcohol and other drug dependence; theories and causes of addition.
The authors also include new material
on the controversy surrounding the
possible positive effects of alcohol
and cannabis use, the increased risk of
interpersonal violence, and new
research on theories of addiction.
Maree Teesson, Wayne Hall, Heather
Proudfoot & Louisa Degenhardt Psychology Press, Oct. 2011, 176p ISBN: 978-0415583008
www.psypress.com/
Neuroimaging in addiction
Approaching addiction from a conceptual rather than a substance-specific
perspective, this book integrates broad
neuropsychological constructs that
consider addiction as a neuroplastic
process with genetic, developmental,
and substance-induced contributions.
Following a general introduction, an
overview of neural circuitry and
modern non-invasive imaging techniques provides the framework for subsequent chapters on reward salience,
craving, stress, impulsivity, and cognition. Additional topics include the use
of neuroimaging for the assessment of
acute drug effects, drug-induced neurotoxicity, non-substance addictive
behaviors, and the application of imaging genetics to identify unique intermediate phenotypes. The book concludes with an exploration of the future
promise for functional imaging as
guide to the diagnosis and treatment
of addictive disorders.
Bryon Adinoff & Elliot A Stein Wiley-Blackwell, Aug 2011, 368p ISBN: 978-0470660140
Addiction neuroethics. The
promises and perils of neuroscience research on addiction
Addiction is a significant health and
social problem and one of the largest
preventable causes of disease globally.
Neuroscience promises to revolutionise
our ability to treat addiction, lead to
recognition of addiction as a 'real'
disorder in need of medical treatment
and thereby reduce stigma and discrimination. However, neuroscience raises
numerous social and ethical challenges:
• If addicted individuals are suffering
from a brain disease that drives them
to drug use, should we mandate treatment? • Does addiction impair an individual's ability to consent to research
or treatment? • How will neuroscience
affect social policies towards drug use?
This book addresses these challenges
by examining ethical implications of
emerging neurobiological treatments,
including: novel psychopharmacology,
neurosurgery, drug vaccines to prevent
relapse, and genetic screening to identify individuals who are vulnerable to
addiction. Essential reading for academics, clinicians, researchers and policymakers in the fields of addiction, mental health and public policy.
Adrian Carter & Wayne Hall Cambridge Univ. Press, Dec. 2011,
416p - ISBN: 978-1107003248
www.cambridge.org/
Treating addiction:
A guide for professionals
This practitioner reference book focuses on how to provide effective help
to clients with substance use disorders.
The authors present a state-of-the-art
framework for assessment and treatment. They describe and illustrate evidence-based treatment methods, including cognitive-behavioral, 12-step,
motivational, pharmacological, and
family approaches. Also addressed are
such crucial clinical issues as resistance, maintenance of change, treating
co-occurring disorders, and spirituality.
Clinical tools can be photocopied
from the book or downloaded from
www.guilford.com/p/miller11. This
companion web page features additional widely used assessment tools,
together with the authors' guidance for
using them throughout the process of
treatment.
William R Miller, Alyssa Forcehimes
& Allen Zweben - Guilford Press, Sept
2011, 446 p - ISBN: 978-1609186388
www.guilford.com/
Perioperative addiction:
Clinical management
of the addicted patient
This volume addresses an issue that
every anesthesiologist can encounter:
the patient who arrives for operative
care under the influence of legal or
illegal drugs. It provides a guidance
on how to identify and manage the
addicted patient, approaching the subject from the vantage points of the
specific drug and of special patient
populations. Topics: • Guidance for
managing addicted patients.• All common and important drugs of addiction,
from opioids, cocaine, club drugs, and
alcohol, to tobacco, marijuana, nitrous
oxide, inhalants, and propofol.• Special
populations, including pregnant women,
pain patients, adolescents, older
patients, and healthcare professionals.Fascinating overview of the long history of addiction.• Genetic basis of
addiction, and the range of pharmacological treatments for addiction.
Ethan Bryson & Elizabeth Frost Springer, Dec 2011/Jan 2012, 388p ISBN: 978-1461401698
www.springer.com/
Handbook of applied behavior
analysis
Describing the state of the science of
applied behavior analysis (ABA), this
handbook provides detailed information about theory, research, and intervention. Contributors present current
best practices in behavioral assessment and demonstrate evidence-based
strategies for supporting positive
behaviors and reducing problem behaviors. Conceptual, empirical, and procedural building blocks of ABA are
reviewed and specific applications
described in education, autism treatment, addiction treatment, and other
areas. The volume also addresses crucial professional and ethical issues,
making it a training tool for ABA practitioners.
Wayne W Fisher, Cathleen C Piazza
and Henry S Roane - Guilford, Aug
2011, 544p - ISBN: 978-1609184681
www.guilford.com/
Healing the addictive personality: freeing yourself from addictive patterns and relationships
This ebook presents ways of healing
addictive thinking, behavior, and destructive relationship patterns with forgiveness, compassion, and the potential for limitless opportunity through
an 11-week action plan. This book
goes deep to expose the profile of the
addictive personality, and then broadens from there to show us how to
recognize the characteristics of the
addictive personality and understand
why it develops in the first place. This
edition of a self-help classic presents a
spiritual approach to changing addictive behaviors and destructive relationship patterns. Updates include new
findings on the effects of neurochemistry on addiction.
Lee Jampolsky - Ten Speed Press,
imprint of Celestial Arts / Crown
Publishing Group (2008) / Amazon
Kindle eBook, Aug 2011, 192p - ASIN:
B004QX05W0
www.ebooksshop.org.uk/
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The interventionist
The author, an average suburban mother
was secretly addicted to multiple forms
of opiates and amphetamine. Through
the life-changing intervention of Dr.
Phil, she not only committed to getting help for her addiction, but she
also went on to become a professional
interventionist, helping many others in
distress. In this book she intertwines
her experiences with depictions of her
often harrowing and always inspiring
interventions of the addicts and families she's worked with. In each chapter
she recounts details of a client's unique
battle with addiction and the devastation that led to a request for her help.
Her book demonstrates how it is possible to emerge from the seemingly
hopeless world of out-of-control drug
use and not only regain one's sanity,
but actually discover that life clean
and sober can be more meaningful
than it ever was before.
Joani Gammill - Hazelden, July 2011,
336p - ISBN: 978-1592858941
www.hazelden.org/
The intervention book: Stories
and solutions from addicts,
professionals, and families
In this book, the author offers a comprehensive guide to understanding and
staging interventions. She begins by
explaining the concept of intervention
- the critical waking up point when the
addict accepts that addiction has taken
over his life. She takes readers through
the different types of interventions,
and offers advice from professional
counselors and family members who
have used interventions successfully.
The book includes about 20 accounts
from recovering addicts and alcoholics,
along with their friends and families
who have been through interventions
and started recovery.
Kathy L - Red Wheel/Weiser / Conari,
Sept 2011, 256p - ISBN: 978-1573244954
www.conari.com/
Moms to moms. Shared
wisdom from moms in recovery
In this book, the author shares stories,
advice, and inspiration from nearly
100 mothers in recovery from across
the US who have struggled with
addiction. These are women of all
ages, races, and religious affiliations
who candidly share their experiences:
the challenges of being a mom in
recovery, the values they want to teach
their children, and their fears, struggles,
and accomplishments.
Barbara Joy - Red Wheel/Weiser/
Conari Press, Sept 2011, 192p - ISBN:
978-1573244831
www.conari.com/
Addiction and virtue: Beyond the
models of disease and choice
What is the nature of addiction?
Neither of the two dominant models
(disease or choice) adequately accounts
for the experience of those who are
addicted or of those who are seeking
to help them. In this interdisciplinary
work, the author brings the neglected
resources of philosophical and theological analysis to bear on the problem
of addiction. Drawing on the insights
of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, he
formulates an alternative to the usual
reductionistic models. He maintains
that addiction is not just a problem
facing individuals. Its pervasiveness
sheds prophetic light on our cultural
moment. Moving beyond issues of
individual treatment, this study also
outlines significant implications for
ministry within the local church context.
Kent Dunnington - IVP Academic, Sept
2011, 208p - ISBN: 978-0830839018
www.ivpress.com/
AA to Z: An addictionary
of the 12-step culture
AA to Z is the first book to document
the richness and diversity of the lives
of recovering people and to provide an
encyclopedic look at this unique subculture. Less self-help than enlightenment, AA to Z is comprised of reallife stories of recovering addicts as
well as an "addictionary" of recovery
terminology. Everything from the wellknown slogan “One day at a time” to
more esoteric terms like “pigeon” (a
lovingly insulting term for a newcomer to the program) and “wharf rats”
(sober deadheads) is explained with
clarity, insight, and humor. The book
offers the uninitiated a fascinating
firsthand look at one of the most
influential yet least-documented cultural movements of our time.
Christopher Cavanaugh - Main Street
Books/Amazon Kindle eBook, Aug
2011, 208p - ASIN: B004FYZK2A
www.ebooksshop.org.uk/
How to defeat harmful habits:
Freedom from six addictive
behaviors
This book provides a compassionate
biblical guidance to help readers recognize addictive impulses and habits,
set boundaries, seek help, and trust the
power of Christ to release them from
the hold of addictions. The book
covers: overeating; alcohol and drug
abuse; sexual addiction; co-dependency; anorexia and bulimia and
more…
June Hunt - Harvest House
Publishers, Oct 2011, 384p - ISBN:
978-0736923293
http://harvesthousepublishers.com/
DRUGS
Criminal dilemmas: Understanding and preventing crime
Fighting crime breeds emotional responses which often lead to counterproductive government policy. To
allow a rational analysis of these
concerns, this book employs the thinking of economics, political science,
and game theory to develop new perspectives on crime and its causes. A
basic assumption is that the criminal is
a rational actor who makes decisions
based on his personal expected gains
and costs. By using this assumption,
predictions about behaviour as well as
emotional concerns such as prostitution and gun control are given a theoretical perspective. By understanding
the strategic variables which cause, for
example, gang wars and drug sales,
we are better equipped to design
effective public policy. In this 2nd edition, a chapter on police corruption
has been added. The Gangs chapter
has been updated and focuses more on
evaluating competing hypotheses
about gang organization and activity.
Katri K Sieberg - Springer (Series:
Studies in Economic Theory, Vol. 12)
July 2011, 199p - ISBN: 978-3642063114
www.springer.com
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New developments in drug
abuse, trade and policies
This book presents current research in
the study of drug abuse, drug trade
and various policies. Topics discussed
include NIDA informational facts on
steroids; anabolic steroid use and
federal efforts to prevent and reduce
the use of steroids among teenagers;
international drug control policy; illicit drug trafficking and US counterdrug programs in Latin America and
the Caribbean; illegal drug trade in
Africa and the background; effectiveness and policy issues for Congress
regarding drug courts.
Gustavo L Suarez - Nova Science Pub.,
ebook, end 2011 - ISBN: 978-1614704164
Border junkies: Addiction and
survival on the streets of Juarez
and El Paso
The author - who survived years of
heroin addiction and failed attempts at
detox and finally cleaned up in 2003 describes his life between the disparate Mexican and American cultures
and among the fellow junkies, drug
dealers, hookers, thieves, and killers
who were his friends and neighbors in
addiction - and the social workers,
missionaries, and doctors who tried to
help him escape. He shows how homelessness, poverty, and addiction fuel
the use of narcotics and the rise in
their consumption on the streets of
Juárez and contribute to the societal
decay of this Mexican urban landscape.
He also offers significant insights into
the US-Mexico borderland's underground and the ways in which the
region's inhabitants adapt to the local
economic terrain.
Scott Comar & Howard Campbell Univ. of Texas Press, Oct. 2011, 242p
- ISBN: 978-0292726833
www.utexas.edu/
Policing methamphetamine:
Narcopolitics in rural America
Methamphetamine has become one of
the most dangerous drugs in America.
As a result, there has been a concerted
effort at the local level to root out the
methamphetamine problem by identifying the people who are suspected to
be involved with methamphetamine.
Government anti-methamphetamine
legislation has enhanced these local
efforts, encouraging rural residents to
identify meth offenders. The book
shows what happens in everyday life
when methamphetamine becomes an
object of collective concern. Drawing
on interviews with users, police officers,
judges, parents and friends of addicts
in one West Virginia town, the author
finds that this effort to confront the
problem changed the character of the
community as well as the role of law
in creating and maintaining social
order. Ultimately, this work addresses
the impact of methamphetamine and,
more generally, the war on drugs, on
everyday life in the US.
Anybody who wishes can buy drugs.
The price has never been lower. Drugrelated criminal activity costs the nation
billions of pounds a year and clogs up
the courts and our prisons. Hundreds
of millions of pounds are spent trying
to prevent drugs reaching our shores,
with very little success, and the NHS
spends millions of pounds on drug
related illness. The only way to take
the drug business away from the criminal gangs is to make drugs legal.
Simultaneous international legalisation
of all drugs, with robust measures to
control access to them, will not be
easy to achieve, but it holds out the
best chance of taming and controlling
the menace of drugs.
William Campbell Garriott - New York
Univ. Press, July 2011, 201p - ISBN:
978-0814732403
http://nyupress.org/
Drugs, brain, and behavior
Implementing evidence-based
practices in community corrections and addiction treatment
Community corrections programs are
emerging as an effective alternative to
incarceration for drug-involved offenders. Since evidence-based practice is
gaining recognition in both community
systems and substance abuse treatment,
a merger of the two seems logical. But
integrating evidence-based addiction
treatment into community corrections
is no small feat - costs, personnel
decisions, and appropriate interventions
are all critical considerations. Featuring
the first model of implementation strategies linking these fields, this text
sets out criteria for identifying practices
and programs as evidence. It is based
on extensive research into organizational factors and external forces (e.g.,
funding, resources) with the most
impact on the adoption of evidencebased practices, and implementation
issues ranging from skill building to
quality control. With this knowledge,
organizations can set attainable goals
and achieve treatment outcomes that
reflect the evidence base.
Faye S. Taxman & Steven Belenko Springer (series: Evidence-based
crime policy), Nov 2011, 280p - ISBN:
978-1461404118
www.springer.com/
Legalize. The only way
to combat drugs
From very modest beginnings 40 years
ago, illegal drugs have become a major
concern in every country. Led by
America, governments have introduced
prohibitionist policies, but the legal
sanctions have failed to make any
impression on the problem and the
streets of our cities remain awash with
drugs. The international drug industry
is second only to the arms trade in
value, and it pays no tax. It has spawned corruption which threatens the
stability of nations, and its scale
makes it ineradicable. Evidence of the
failure of prohibition is everywhere.
Max Rendall - Stacey, July 2011, 200p
- ISBN: 978-1906768652
www.stacey-international.co.uk/
The goal of this book is to provide an
introduction to psychoactive drugs and
behavior. It focuses on the interrelationship between psychological and
physiological processes. With the
increased interest in neuroscience, the
authors pay particular attention to
behavioral and nervous system processes as they relate to drug use. Using a
unique approach, the authors integrate
relevant examples from history, popular culture, and literature that help
illustrate concepts. Color diagrams of
neurons, neurotransmitters, and brain
anatomy will provide students with
structural representations that will
enhance their understanding of the
psychological and physiological processes involved in drug interaction.
This text offers students both a scientific examination of the effects of
drugs on behavior and an understanding
of the contemporary issues related to
drug use and abuse.
Scott Bailey & Cathy Grover - John
Wiley & Sons, Oct 2011, 448p - ISBN:
978-1405132251
Brain imaging in substance
abuse. Research, clinical and
forensic applications
In this book, clinical researchers from
diverse fields describe in detail the use
of electroencephalography, emission
tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and neuropsychology to study
the neural effects of substance abuse.
They extensively review research findings these powerful methods have
yielded. The authors detail the effects
of drugs, including alcohol, benzodiazepines, marijuana, opiates, cocaine,
amphetamines, hallucinogens, and solvents on brain electrical activity, metabolism, hemodynamics, receptor and
neurotransmitter levels, neurochemistry, and structure. The striking findings
they report emerge from more than
1350 articles in some 320 journals,
and are organized by method, abused
substance, and drug use state.
Marc J Kaufman, et al. - Humana
Press/Springer, July 2011, 448p - ISBN:
978-1617371806
www.springer.com/
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Memoirs of an addicted brain:
A neuroscientist examines his
former life on drugs
Our minds are governed by a cycle of
craving: what we don't have, finding
it, using it up or losing it, and then
being driven by loss, need, desire, or
insecurity to crave it all the more. This
cycle is at the root of all addictions...
But why are we so driven, often at
great cost to ourselves? For many
years the author was a drug addict
himself, dependent on a series of substances. His narrative moves back and
forth between the long, dark, ultimately triumphant story of his relationship with drugs, and a revelatory analysis of what was going on in his brain.
He shows how drugs speak to the
brain - itself designed to seek rewards
and soothe pain - in its own language.
He details the different neurological
effects of a variety of drugs, from
oxycodone to heroin, from drink to
love. He freed himself from addiction
and took up studying it. He is now
professor of neuroscience since 12 years.
Marc Lewis - Doubleday Canada, Oct
2011, 352 p - ISBN: 978-0385669252
for hardcover book, and 9780385669269 for eBook
www.randomhouse.ca/
Handbook of drug interactions.
A clinical and forensic guide
Adverse drug interactions are still a
major headache for healthcare professionals. The US Food and Drug
Administration's database recorded
almost 300,000 serious adverse events
in 2009 alone, of which 45,000 instances proved fatal. This updated edition
incorporates fresh research completed
since its first publication in 2004.
Additions include a new section on
pharmacogenomics, a rapidly growing
field that explores the genetic basis for
the variability of responses to drugs. It
reviews important polymorphisms in
drug metabolizing enzymes and
applies the findings to forensic interpretation, using case studies involving
opiates as exemplars. Chapters from
the first edition have been reworked to
reflect new data. The book also features extra material on illicit drug use,
with a new chapter tackling the subject that covers cocaine, amphetamines and cannabis, among others. The
section on the central nervous system
deals with a number of drugs that are
abused illicitly, such as benzodiazepines, opiates flunitrazepam and GHB,
while 'social' drugs such as alcohol
and nicotine are discussed in the section on environmental and social pharmacology.
Vincenzo Marzo - Springer, 2nd ed.,
July 2011, 228p - ISBN: 9781441934338
www.springer.com/
Ashraf Mozayani & Lionel Raymon Springer, 2nd ed., Aug 2011, 500p ISBN: 978-1617792212
www.springer.com/
In the last three years more than
23,000 people have been murdered in
Amexica - the area of land that forms
the border between the US and
Mexico. This is both the busiest and
most deadly frontier in the world,
studded with guard-posts, infra-red
searchlights and heavily armed
patrols. Across it unfolds a war that is
scarcely reported - a war that's being
fought, with thousands dying and millions of lives blighted, so that Europe
and America can get high. The author,
journalist, explores his own love-hate
relationship with the place and its people, while investigating the causes and
consequences of the war and its
impact on the everyday life which
somehow carries on around it.
Medical toxicology of drugs
abuse: synthesized chemicals
and psychoactive plants
The book covers in part 1 (Synthetic
and semisynthetic chemicals): amphetamines and phenethylamine derivatives; club drugs; eating disorders and
appetite; erogenic agents and supplements; ethanol; lysergic acid diethylamide; older sedative hypnotic (lSD);
opioids; phencyclidine; volatile substance abuse; anesthetics; fluorinated
alkanes; industrial hydrocarbons;
nitrogen compounds. Part 2 covers
psychoactive plants such has caffeine,
peyote and psilocybin. It covers the
chemical structures, analytical
methods, clinical features, and treatments of these drugs of abuse.
Donald G Barceloux - Wiley-Blackwell,
Oct 2011, 904p - ISBN: 978-0471727606
Cannabinoids
The 21st century will witness the
unprecedented marketing of therapeutic drugs developed from cannabinoids
and the endocannabinoid system. This
book presents a review of important
issues in cannabinoid research as well
as those of most therapeutic relevance.
For the first time, the multi-faceted
aspects of cannabinoid chemistry, biology and medicine are presented in
one volume. Key topics: • Families of
phytocannabinoids • Pharmacological
activity of phytocannabinoids • Interactions of phytocannabinoids with
their proposed molecular target •
Components of the endocannabinoid
system • Molecular mechanisms of the
endocannabinoid system • Physiological
and pathological role of endocannabinoids • Industrial applications of studies on the cannabinoids • Therapeutic
uses of agonists and antagonists of
cannabinoids receptors.
Amexica:
War along the borderline
Ed Vulliamy - Vintage imprint, Oct
2011, 320p - ISBN: 978-0099546566
www.amazon.co.uk/
Drugs and society
This 11th updated edition contains the
current information available concerning drug use and abuse. Written in an
user-friendly manner, this text continues to captivate students by taking a
biological approach to the impact of
drug use and abuse on the lives of
ordinary people. It incorporates the
authors' combined expertise in pharmacology, drug abuse, and sociology
and extensive experience in research,
teaching, drug policy-making, and
drug policy implementation and includes hundreds of new citations that
reflect the current state of drug abuse
issues and the rapidly changing issues
of substance abuse/addiction.
Glen Hanson, Annette Fleckenstein &
Peter Venturelli - Jones & Bartlett, July
2011, 624p - ISBN: 978-1449613693
www.jblearning.com/
Handbook of child and adolescent drug and substance abuse.
Pharmacological, developmental, and clinical considerations
More than 90% of adults with current
substance use disorders started using
before age 18, engaging in behaviors
that affect healthy neurological and
psychological development. This
handbook provides a comprehensive,
up-to-date overview of the nature and
extent of substance use by children
and adolescents. Discussion is included on the direct impact on health,
safety, and well being, as well as that
of families and communities. It will
enable mental health professionals,
students, and policy makers to develop
effective prevention and treatment services for children and adolescents
affected by substance abuse.
Ann Marie Pagliaro & Louis Pagliaro
- John Wiley & Sons, 2nd edition, Nov
2011, 512p - ISBN: 978-0470639061
http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/
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parties to identify - and help - each of
these distinct groups.
Gary L Fisher - Praeger, July 2011,
190p - ISBN: 978-0313387074
www.abc-clio.com/
Reinforcement-based treatment
for substance use disorders
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Sex, drugs & techno
As a DJ, the club/party scene showed
Paul a world he thought only the rich
and famous could taste. But that
seductive, drug-induced scene took
him to the very edge. Visiting the
mystical island of Bali he found a tribal community, offering Paul a way.
Severing the lifestyle he loved and
cherished was only the beginning:
severing the pain of the past was a
journey to the brink - and beyond.
Paul Eldridge - John Hunt Publishing,
imprint of Soul Rocks Books, Aug
2011, 214p - ISBN: 978-1846945113
www.whsmith.co.uk/
Understanding why addicts are
not all alike: Recognizing the
types and how their differences
affect intervention and treatment
A new understanding of drug abuse
explores treatment issues based on
subtypes of addicts. This book provides
an in-depth, research-based analysis of
three specific subtypes of substance
abusers: addicts who fit the disease
model, addicts with antisocial personality disorder, and functional addicts
- those who lead otherwise successful
lives. Particular attention is paid to the
latter two groups, which have not been
adequately studied previously. Characteristics of the three subtypes are illustrated through case studies that clearly
demonstrate how subtype impacts prevention, intervention, and treatment.
Most important, the book recommends
practical intervention and treatment
strategies that will enable concerned
This book is a clinician manual for
implementing Reinforcement-Based
Treatment (RBT), an evidence-based
model for treating substance use disorders in community settings. RBT integrates effective behavioral techniques
with motivational interviewing, highly
individualized treatment plans, and
case management. The goal is to help
clients avoid substance use triggers
and develop recreational outlets and
support systems that are incompatible
with substance use. Additionally, the
model emphasizes customer service a concept underemphasized in most
programs - to ensure that clients
receive positive reinforcement for
attending treatment. The book provides clear, detailed, and practical case
illustrations and a variety of useful
forms and therapist scripts.
L Michelle Tuten, Hendree E Jones,
Cindy M Schaeffer & Maxine L Stitzer
- American Psychological Association
(APA), Aug 2011, 256p - ISBN: 9781433810244
www.apa.org/
Infamous players. A tale of
movies, the mob (and sex)
In 1967, the author decided to enter
into the dizzying world of motion pictures. The book tells the story of his
whirlwind journey at Paramount, and
his role in its triumph and failures.
This book is a recollection of the icons
he met there, with behind-the-scenes
details and an insightful analysis. This
golden era at Paramount was fraught
with chaos and company turmoil.
Drugs, sex, runaway budgets, management infighting, and even the Mafia
started finding their way onto the
Paramount backlot, making it surely
one of the worst-run studios in the history of the movie industry.
Peter Bart - Perseus Books, May
2011, 288p - ISBN: 978-1602861398
Addiction & grief: Letting go
of fear, anger, and addiction
Working a 12-step programme helps
keep many recovering addicts and
alcoholics sober, but not necessarily
Titles for teens in the “Dealing with drugs series”:
A series for teens 9-12 years old will be published in Aug. 2011, by Crabtree
Publishing, 48p. at www.crabtreebooks.com/ (no images yet)
• Marijuana - Troon Harrison Adams - ISBN: 978-0778755098
• Party and club drugs - Marguerite Rodger - ISBN: 978-0778755173
• Street Pharma - Jessica Wilkins - ISBN: 978-0778755128
• Inhalants and solvents - Jon Eben Field - ISBN: 978-0778755159
• Crystal Meth - Carrie L. Cross - ISBN: 978-0778755074
• Steroids - Erin Knight - ISBN: 978-0778755111
www.perma-bound.com/ViewDetail/1043026-dealing-with-drugs-crabtree
happy. This book looks at the emotional “bottom” of recovery. Just as one
needs to hit bottom with drinking or
using in order to begin recovery, eventually one will also hit an emotional
bottom of fear, anger, and grief. The
book challenges readers in recovery to
investigate the unresolved grief, and
the negative emotions that can lead
back to using. It begins with a “grief”
list that helps readers understand
where, when, and how fear and anger
took control of their lives, and then
provides a set of questions to identify
how these negative emotions continue
to hold them back in recovery. It shows
that authentic recovery is more than
an attitude: it is based on emotional
work that involves an honest appraisal
of one's life, and the willingness to
change.
Barb Rogers - Red Wheel/Conari Press,
Oct 2011, 144p - ISBN: 978-1573245166
www.conari.com/
The anatomy of addiction:
Recognizing the triggers
standing in the way of recovery
The relapse rate for addicts in conventional treatment programs is a
shocking 70-90%, despite the efforts
of family members, doctors, and the
addicts themselves. Drawing on the
latest addiction research, the authors
argue that the reason so many addicts
fail to make headway is because, too
often, they focus on the addiction
only, and not the many factors that
contribute to it. Readers will learn
how to:
• Recognize what people and situations drive their addiction. o Peel back
the layers of their life to understand
the roots of helplessness and dependency.
• Rewrite family dynamics and end
the cycle of addiction.
This is an eye-opening look for
addicts and family members that will
show them how to discover the heart
of problem, and overcome it.
Morteza Khaleghi, Karen Khaleghi Palgrave Macmillan, Oct 2011, 240p ISBN: 978-0230107090
www.bookdepository.co.uk/
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The drug effect.
Health, crime and society
This book offers new perspectives on
critical debates in the field of alcohol
and other drug use. Drawing together
work by esperts in Australia, the US,
the UK and Canada, it explores social
and cultural meanings of drug use and
analyses law enforcement and public
health frameworks and objectives related to drug policy and service provision. In doing so, it addresses key
questions of drug use and addiction
through interdisciplinary, predominantly sociological and criminological,
perspectives, mapping and building on
recent conceptual and empirical
advances in the field. These include
questions of materiality and agency,
the social constitution of disease and
neo-liberal subjectivity and responsibility. This book provides a fresh
scholarly perspective on drug use and
addiction by collecting top quality original work, written by a mix of international leaders in the field and emerging scholars working at the cutting
edge of research.
Graham John Trout & Rymantas Kazlauskas - Royal Society of Chemistry,
Nov 2011, 250p - ISBN: 9781849731720
www.amazon.co.uk/
Drugs in sport. Perspectives on
doping in the world of sport
This book is a multi-author title designed to help athletes, coaches, lawyers,
doctors and sports officials get to grips
with a complex and sometimes explosive topic. It provides a collection of
pieces, some controversial and not all
in agreement by the leading minds in
the field. Beginning with a preface by
Dick Pound, controversial ex-head of
the World Anti-Doping Agency, the
book includes chapters by: the late
Wilf Paish; Linford Christie and Dwain
Chambers; Prof. Julian Savalescu of
Oxford University; Michele Verroken,
the former Director of Ethics at UK
Sport; and Tony Fitton, who was once
a prolific supplier of drugs to athletes.
The result is this book that is academically sound and hugely informative, as
well as wide-ranging and refreshingly
open.
Suzanne Fraser & David Moore Cambridge University Press, Dec
2011 - ISBN: 978-0521156059
www.cambridge.org
Geoffrey K Platt - A & C Black Pub.,
Sept 2011, 304p - ISBN: 978-1408147184
www.bookdepository.co.uk/
Drugs in sport:
Science and detection
Performance explosion in
sports: An anti-doping concept
Seldom does a day go by without the
topic of drugs in sport being mentioned in the media. Athletes, sports
administrators, scientists and the general public all take an interest in this
controversial subject. The issues
involved are complex. Whilst the
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)
provides much knowledge, information is lacking on the technical aspects
of drugs in sport - for example, what
drugs do what, and what methods are
used to detect various classes of drugs.
This book starts with a brief history of
drugs in sport before going on to describe why drugs are banned and by
whom, sample collection, which drugs
are banned, effects on performance,
misuse of pharmaceuticals and designer drugs, metabolism as the key to
detection, detection methods, and relevant developments in medicine and
biology. It finishes with a chapter on
future challenges.
This book offers new findings in the
area of inividual micronutrient therapy
in top and recreational athletes that
has lead to the preservation of connective tissue function (ligaments, tendons, cartilage), thereby facilitating
injury-free training. The new findings
and practical help will be a significant
milestone for future generations and a
good source of advice for athletes,
trainers, physical therapists and physicians.
Elmar Wienecke - Meyer & Meyer
Sport UK, Aug 2011, 288p - ISBN: 9781841263304 - Also in German, under
the title “Leistungsexplosion im Sport”
ISBN: 978-3898996525
www.m-m-sports.com/
Towards a social science
of drugs in sport
The debate around the role of drugs in
sport is vibrant. There is a wealth of
evidence from the hard end of science,
telling us how drugs work, how drug
testing works, and how many athletes
have fallen foul of the system. The
evidence from social science is still
building momentum. For example,
what makes an athlete use a performance enhancing substance? “To win”
fails to explain their drug use behaviour. This book provides a foundation
for anyone trying to understand the
drugs in sport problem beyond the
hard science by looking at the “people
factor” from different perspectives.
After building a case for the social
science of drugs in sport, it is examined from the ethical, sociological,
economic, legal and psychological
points of view. The book concludes
with a definitive statement about what
researchers, policy makers, sports
administrators, and athletes can do to
achieve a social science of drugs in
sport that puts people firmly in the
centre of the debate.
Jason Mazanov - Routledge, Sept
2011, 192p - ISBN: 978-0415685863
www.routledge.com/
The age of anxiety. A history of
America's turbulent affair with
tranquilizers
Anxious Americans have increasingly
pursued peace of mind through pills.
In 2006, the National Institute of
Mental Health estimated that 40 million adults suffer from an anxiety
disorder: more than double in 2001.
Anti-anxiety drugs are a billion-dollar
business. Since 1995, the tranquilizer
Miltown became the first psychotropic
blockbuster in US history. Its financial
success and cultural impact revolutionized perceptions of anxiety and its
treatment, inspiring the development
of other lifestyle drugs including
Valium and Prozac. This book draws
on a broad array of original sources to
provide the first account of the rise of
America's tranquilizer culture. It transports readers from the bomb shelters
of the Cold War to the scientific optimism of the Baby Boomers, to the
“just say no” puritanism of the late
1970s and 1980s.
Andrea Tone - Basic Books, Jan. 2012,
320p - ISBN: 978-0465025206
An anatomy of addiction:
Sigmund Freud, William Halsted,
and the miracle drug cocaine
This book gives an astonishing
account of the decades long cocaine
use of Sigmund Freud and William
Halsted. It describes the physical and
emotional damage caused by the
constant use of the then heralded wonder drug, and how both men ultimately changed the world in spite of it,
or because of it. One became the
father of psychoanalysis; the other, of
modern surgery. Using themselves as
subjects in their research - Freud
experimented with cocaine as a means
of treating depression, fatigue, and
morphine addiction; Halsted, as a new
and safe form of anaesthesia - each
became caught up in the drug's grip,
nearly destroying his life, and unwittingly becoming the first participants
in the birth of modern addiction.
The book traces the drug's effects on
the thoughts and path finding work of
each man. Historians and biographers
have ignored or glossed over the dayby-day archival and medical records
of the chronic cocaine abuse of each
doctor, as well as the psychological
and physical darkness it brought them
and their struggles to rid their lives of it.
Howard Markel - Pantheon Books,
July 2011, 352p - ISBN: 978-0375423307
www.randomhouse.com/
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The book of drugs. A memoir
The author came to prominence as the
leader of the band Soul Coughing then
did an abrupt sonic left turn, transforming into a solo performer of stark,
dusky, but strangely hopeful tunes. He
battled addiction, gave up fame when
his old band was at the height of its
popularity, drove thousands of miles,
alone, across America, with just an
acoustic guitar. This candid, hilarious,
self-lacerating memoir - featuring
cameos by Redman, Ani DiFranco, the
late Jeff Buckley, and others - is the
story of his band's rise and bitter collapse, the haunted and darkly comical
life of addiction, and the perhaps even
weirder world of recovery.
Mike Doughty - Da Capo Press, Jan
2012, 256p - ISBN: 978-0306818776
substance abuse in the past two decades. In fact, these peaks mirrored the
global trend of abusing non-opiate
psychotropic substances and the growing belief among young people that
psychotropic substance abuse is nonaddictive and it is a trendy choice of
life. Evidence-based practice is still
very primitive in the fields of youth
work and adolescent prevention in
Hong Kong and there are many obstacles involved. This book examines
how adolescent prevention and positive youth development programs can
be developed in different Chinese
contexts.
Daniel TL Shek, Rachel CF Sun &
Joav Merrick - Nova Science Pub.,
Sept 2011 - ISBN: 978-1613244913
Eating smoke: One man's descent into drug psychosis in
Hong Kong's triad heartland
Chris Thrall left the Royal Marines to
find his fortune in Hong Kong, but
instead found himself homeless and
addicted to crystal meth. Soon he
began working for the 14K, Hong
Kong's largest triad group, as a doorman in one of their night-clubs in the
Wanchai district. Dealing with crime,
violence and the 'foreign triad' - a
secretive expat clique which, unbeknown to the world, works hand-inhand with the Chinese mafia - he had
to survive in the world's most unforgiving city, addicted to the world's most
dangerous drug.
Portrait of an addict as a young
Chris Thrall - Blacksmith Books, July
man. A memoir
The author had a thriving business as
a literary agent, representing a growing list of writers. He had a supportive partner, trusting colleagues, and
friends when he walked away from his
world and embarked on a two-month
crack binge. He had been released
from rehab nine months earlier, and
his relapse would cost him his home,
money, career, and very nearly his life.
What is it that leads an exceptional
young mind to want to disappear? The
author makes stunningly clear the
attraction of the drug that had him in
its thrall, capturing in scene after
scene the drama, tension, and paranoiac nightmare of a secret life - and
the exhilarating bliss that came again
and again until it was eclipsed almost
entirely by doom.
Bill Clegg - Back Bay Books, Aug
2011, 256p - ISBN: 978-0316054669
www.hachettebookgroup.com/
Drug abuse in Hong Kong.
Development and evaluation of
a prevention program
Adolescent substance abuse is a growing concern in Hong Kong and there
has been several peaks in adolescent
2011, 348p - ISBN: 978-9881900296
www.blacksmithbooks.com/9789881
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ALCOHOL
Alcohol dependence
and addiction
Alcoholism is a quantitative and multifactorial disorder, where the combined incidence of environmental
aspects and multiple genetic factors
varies from one individual to another.
In this book, the authors present topical research in the study of alcohol
dependence, including: alcohol induced impairment of the cardiac autonomic nervous system; alcohol
consumption and its relation to psychiatric symptoms and sexual behavior patterns; the genetics of alcoholism; alcohol-use disorders; gamma
hydroxybutyric acid (GHB) as a pharmacological treatment for alcohol
dependence and physical aggression in
alcohol dependence.
Jeffrey V Maars - Nova Science Pub.,
Nov 2011 - ISBN book: 978-1613247198
& ebook: 978-1613247969
TOBACCO
After tobacco: What would
happen if Americans stopped
smoking?
States have banned smoking in workplaces, restaurants, and bars. They have
raised tobacco tax rates, extended
“clean air” laws. Nevertheless, tobacco
use remains high among Americans,
with one out of five adults smoking.
Health professionals now realize that
significantly reducing these rates
requires bolder measures, including a
direct confrontation with the fear that
controlling tobacco more strictly carries enormous social and economic
consequences. Retail and hospitality
businesses worry that smoking bans
and excise taxes will cripple profit,
and policymakers fear the impact on
the regional economy. These concerns
are not necessarily unfounded. This
book considers the economic impact
of reducing smoking rates on tobacco
farmers, cigarette factory workers, the
southeastern regional economy, state
governments, tobacco retailers, the
hospitality industry, and nonprofit
organizations who might benefit from
the industry's philanthropy. It also
weighs how reduction in smoking will
affect mortality rates, medical costs,
and Social Security. Concluding essays
consider the implications of more
vigorous tobacco control policy for law
enforcement, smokers who face social
stigma, the mentally ill who may cope
through tobacco, and disparities in
health by race, social class, and gender.
Peter Shawn Bearman, Kathryn Neckerman and Leslie Wright - Columbia
University Press, July 2011, 456p ISBN: 978-0231157773
http://cup.columbia.edu/
Tobacco capitalism: Growers,
migrant workers, and the changing face of a global industry
The author tracks the development of
tobacco farming since the plantation
slavery period and the formation of a
powerful tobacco industry presence in
North Carolina. In recent decades,
tobacco companies that sent farms
into crisis by aggressively switching
to cheaper foreign leaf have coached
growers to blame the state, public
health, and aggrieved racial minorities
for financial hardship and feelings of
vilification. Economic globalization
has exacerbated racial tensions in
North Carolina, but the corporations
that benefit from it have rarely been
considered a key cause of harm and
instability, and have now adopted
social-responsibility platforms to elide
liability for smoking disease. Parsing
the nuances of history, power, and
politics in rural America, the author
explores the cultural and ethical ambiguities of tobacco farming and offers
concrete recommendations for the
tobacco-control movement in the
United States and worldwide.
Peter Benson - Princeton University
Press, Dec. 2011, 304p - ISBN: 9780691149202
http://press.princeton.edu
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GAMBLING / INTERNET
Internet addiction and online
gaming
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The Internet is available anywhere,
anytime thanks to a host of wireless
communications and mobile computing devices. This accessibility makes
it difficult for people with online
addictions to avoid the object of their
fixation. Any excessive online activity
that leads to personal, family, or community problems can be considered an
Internet addiction, and compulsive
behaviors can be in the form of online
and electronic gaming, compulsive
shopping, or frequenting chat rooms
and social-networking sites. This book
for youth discusses the nature of these
problems, their impact on society, and
how they can watch out for emerging
addiction in themselves and in others.
Aside from the damage addictions can
do, there are also technological risks
from malware, viruses, and malicious
hackers. Young people will learn how
to use information technology wisely
and how to protect themselves from
these damaging behaviors.
Samuel Mcquade, Sarah E Gentry,
James P Colt, Marcus K Rogers Chelsea House imprint (Series:
Cybersafety), Nov 2011 - ISBN: 9781604136968
www.infobasepublishing.com/
Gambling as an addictive
behaviour: Impaired control,
harm minimisation, treatment
and prevention
In this revised 2006 edition, the
authors present research into gambling, showing the psychological
variables that govern the erosion or
maintenance of self-control over gambling behaviour. These studies provide
an empirical basis for a model of
impaired control of gambling.
Impaired control, in its broadest sense,
is considered to be the defining psychological construct of all the addictive behaviours and occupies a central
position in conceptualising the addictive aspects of gambling.
John O'Connor, Mark Dickerson Cambridge University Press, July
2011, 204p - ISBN: 978-0521399197
www.cambridge.org
High stakes: The rising cost of
America's gambling addiction
America is becoming hooked on gambling. It's become a $94 billion industry. Revenues have shot up 70% in the
last decade alone. Politicians and
industry officials assert that gambling
is an effective way to raise revenues
and create jobs. But a hidden story
needs to be told. Studies are showing
that fast-rising numbers of addicted
gamblers are causing higher indebtedness and bankruptcy rates, as well as
increased divorces, suicides and gambling-related crime. As elected officials across the country are urging
voters to expand gambling's reach,
millions of Americans are being asked
to decide: Are the benefits worth the
costs? Through dogged investigative
reporting combined with gripping stories of gambling addiction, the author,
a poker player himself, attempts to
find the answer. His book explores the
consequences of the gambling boom
and surveys everything from the
impact of Internet gambling and the
politics surrounding gambling legalization, to the casino industry's targeting of Asian-Americans, and the reality of Las Vegas, a community fundamentally distorted by gambling.
Sam Skolnik - Beacon Press, July
2011, 256p - ISBN: 9780807006290
www.beacon.org/
Virtual worlds and criminality
The fusion between virtuality and reality has created a new quality of experience establishing metaverses and virtual worlds. Second Life, Twinity, or
Entropia Universe have experienced
rapid growth in recent years. Not only
have countless companies discovered
these “virtureal worlds” as marketplaces, but so have fraudsters and other
criminals. In this book, European
experts from different academic disciplines show how to meet the new
challenges arising from virtual worlds.
They discuss the reasons for and the
impacts of these new forms of criminality as well as the necessity and
means of combating them. Other fundamental issues are examined, such as
the addictive and violence potentials
of these virtual worlds.
Kai Cornelius & Dieter Hermann Springer, Aug. 2011, 140p - ISBN: 9783642208225
www.springer.com/
DANOREXIA / BULIMIA
The young adult's guide to
breaking a food addiction:
Recover from emotional eating
today
Is food always on your mind? Do you
find it difficult to stop eating once you
start? Do you eat to relieve painful
emotions? If you answered yes to any
of these questions, you may suffer
from a food addiction, but you are not
alone. This guide will unleash those
pent-up emotions and give you the
steps to set you free from your food
addiction. Beginning with an explanation of the chemical reactions that
create a food addiction, the guide
covers its health consequences (obesity, diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, and arthritis), explains how
food addiction starts, how to overcome this problem, and to get back in
shape, both physically and mentally. It
also includes some stories from recovering addicts who reveal their strategies for getting over a food addiction
without depriving themselves of food.
Atlantic Publishing Group, Dec 2011,
288 p - ISBN: 978-1601386342
www.amazon.com/
SEX ADDICTION
Mending a shattered heart: A
guide for partners of sex
addicts
Experts now know that discovering a
loved one's sex addiction is a traumatic event, requiring specialized guidance. This second edition reframes
the therapeutic discussion around how
to decide to stay with or leave a sex
addict and how to address common
questions that partners have.
Stefanie Carnes - Gentle Path Press,
2nd ed., Sept 2011, 220p - ISBN: 9780982650592
https://gentlepath.com/node/2060
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EUROPE
EMCDDA-Europol 2010 annual
report on the implementation
of Council decision
2005/387/JHA
This report presents the results and
outlines the key achievements for
2010 on the information exchange,
risk-assessment and control of new
psychoactive substances. In 2010, 41
new substances were officially notified
for the first time in the EU through the
Early-Warning System (EWS). Of
those, 15 were synthetic cathinones
and 11 were synthetic cannabinoids.
Substances belonging to more established chemical families were also
reported - five phenethylamines, one
tryptamine and one piperazine. The
list of newly notified substances was
rather diverse and also included a
plant-based substance, a synthetic
cocaine, a ketamine derivative, a
phencyclidine derivative, an indane, a
benzofuran, and a substance which
can be seen as a designer medicine.
The report also describes the increased
availability of 'legal highs' and the
EMCDDA's activities in monitoring the
online shops selling these products, as
well as the risk assessment of mephedrone, which was submitted to control
measures and criminal penalties throughout the European Union.
EMCDDA-Europol, Lisbon, May 2011,
24p.
www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/
implementation-reports/2010
Risk assessment report of
a new psychoactive substance:
4-methylmethcathinone
(mephedrone)
This publication presents the summary
findings and the conclusions of the
risk assessment on mephedrone, carried out by the EMCDDA's extended
Scientific Committee, with participation of additional experts from the
European Commission, Europol and
the EMA. The risk assessment report,
which was submitted to the European
OnlineDocs
Commission and the Council of the
European Union 26 May 2010, examines the health and social risks of the
drug, as well as information on international trafficking and the involvement of organised crime. Furthermore,
the report considers the potential
implications for placing the drug
under control in the EU. On the basis
of this report - and on the initiative of
the European Commission - on 2
December 2010, the Council decided
that mephedrone is to be subject to
control measures.
EMCDDA, Lisbon, May 2011, 200p.
www.emcdda.europa.eu/html.cfm/in
dex116639EN.html
Drugnet Europe 74
In this issue: over 40 new drugs reported in 2010; HIV in the European
region; mapping 'drug squads' in
Europe; khat use in Europe; new
EMCDDA products and services.
EMCDDA, Lisbon, May 2011, 8p.
www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/
drugnet/74
The heroin shortage in the UK
and Europe
Increasingly throughout 2010, observers of the UK heroin scene noticed
signs of disruption in the normally
well-supplied UK market. From around
September, it became clear that something unusual was taking place, and
the following months confirmed the
impression. By November, illicit
heroin had become practically impossible to access, even in major distribution centres such as London and
Liverpool. On the street, supplies sold
as heroin were largely made up of
inert bulking agents combined with
substances such as paracetamol and
benzodiazepines, the latter including
powerful sedatives such as alprazolam. John Ramsey, toxicologist at St
George's Hospital in South London,
reported exceptional levels of demand
for the testing of street heroin samples, while seasoned heroin users
reported seeing nothing like it in drugusing careers spanning 30 years. IDPC
has been monitoring the situation clo-
sely, and began liaising across its global network of NGOs in order to ascertain to what extent the situation was
local to the UK, or whether similar
developments were taking place in
continental Europe. This briefing
paper provides an overview of the
European situation, describes the responses of authorities and users, and
analyses its possible causes and future
development.
Christopher Hallam - IDPC Briefing
paper, March 2011, 8p.
www.idpc.net/publications/idpcbriefing-heroin-shortage
Green paper on on-line gambling in the internal market
Livre vert sur le jeu en ligne dans le
marché intérieur
The purpose of this Green paper on
on-line gambling is to launch an
extensive consultation on all public
policy challenges and possible Single
Market issues resulting from the rapid
development of both licit and unauthorised on-line gambling offers
directed at citizens in the EU. The
Commission invites interested parties
to contribute by 31.07.2011. Are
welcomed contributions from: citizens,
gambling operators, providers of
media-related services, data storage
centres, internet service providers,
payment service providers, sport event
organisers, good causes beneficiaries,
public authorities and other interested
stakeholders.
European Commission, Green paper
SEC (2011) 321 final, March 2011,
36p.
http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/services/gambling_en.htm
RedNet newsletter
The April issue of the RedNet (Recreational Drugs European Network)
newsletter (4 pages) is available at :
www.rednetproject.eu/documents/ne
wsletters/Rednet_News_APR11.pdf
FRANCE
Les carrières de consommation
de cocaïne chez les usagers
« cachés »
The careers of cocaine use among
“hidden” users
Alors que les enquêtes quantitatives
récentes ont montré que l'usage de la
cocaïne se développait dans des
milieux sociaux de plus en plus diversifiés, l'Observatoire français des drogues et des toxicomanies (OFDT) a
souhaité à travers son dispositif TREND
(Tendances récentes et nouvelles drogues) être en mesure de mieux décrire
ces populations. Cette enquête qualitative dont les données ont été recueillies dans 8 agglomérations françaises
repose sur l'analyse de 50 entretiens
conduits avec des consommateurs de
cocaïne qui ne sont pas en contact
avec les structures sociosanitaires ou
les institutions répressives. D'où le
terme « cachés ». Ce rapport permet
de dresser un portrait complexe et
nuancé de cette population largement
polyconsommatrice.
Catherine Reynaud-Maurupt &
Emmanuelle Hoareau - Observatoire
français des drogues et des toxicomanies (OFDT), déc. 2010, 274p.
www.ofdt.fr/ofdtdev/live/publi/rapports/rap10/epfxcrqc.html
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Estimation des achats transfrontaliers de tabac 2004-2007
Estimation of cross-border purchases
of tobacco 2004-2007
En France, divers travaux ont estimé
l'envergure de l'évasion fiscale sur les
produits du tabac selon différentes
méthodologies. L'OFDT a évalué l'ampleur des achats transfrontaliers de
tabac entre 14 et 20 % du marché
national pour les années 2004 à 2006.
Pour 2004, l'Insee a évalué le phénomène à 6 % du marché national par
rapport à l'état du marché en 2002.
Ces importantes différences d'estimation s'expliquent par les méthodologies
empiriques retenues et les hypothèses
posées. Leurs divergences démontrent
la nécessité d'un cadre d'estimation
plus élaboré. Dans ce but, ce numéro
de Tendances développe une approche
méthodologique plus complexe. Pour
des raisons de disponibilité des données
mais surtout parce que la demande de
cigarettes a subi d'importantes distorsions dues aux dispositifs de lutte
contre le tabagisme, la période étudiée
s'étend de 2004 à 2007. Le modèle
économétrique estimé permet de donner une idée du devenir de l'évasion
fiscale sur les produits du tabac pour
les années plus récentes. En parallèle,
une enquête a été menée auprès de
fumeurs pour les interroger sur leur
comportement d'achat de tabac. Elle
complète l'analyse en soulignant les
caractéristiques des consommateurs de
tabac acheté à l'étranger.
de plus de 400 produits collectés auprès
d'usagers sur sept sites en France et de
leur analyse en laboratoire, elle permet
d'observer l'évolution de l'offre des
produits de synthèse en espace festif
depuis 2005. Tendances : désintérêt
pour le comprimé d'ecstasy au profit
de la forme poudre (MDMA) ; intérêt
pour la BZP qui a été interdite en 2008 ;
diffusion de la kétamine hors du groupe
restreint qui la consommait déjà ; essor
de produits nouveaux qualifiés de
legal highs. Pour tous ces produits,
l'enquête permet de répondre aux
interrogations relatives aux modes de
consommation des usagers, à leurs
perceptions des produits en la comparant avec le contenu réel et fournit des
informations sur les prix. Alors qu'Internet commence à modifier l'offre de
produit de synthèse, l’intérêts d cette
enquête est de répondre aux questions
portant sur la nature de ces substances
(méphédrone, fluoroamphétamine,
mCPP, PMMA, 2C-E) et de décrire l'intérêt qu'elles suscitent du fait de leur
nouveauté et de leur non classement
au moment de leur apparition face aux
substances de synthèse traditionnelles
(amphétamine et ecstasy notamment)
habituellement consommées dans
l'espace festif. Elle permet aussi d'appréhender leur dangerosité potentielle.
Emmanuel Lahaie - Observatoire
français des drogues et des toxicomanies (OFDT), avril 2011, 48p.
www.ofdt.fr/ofdtdev/live/publi/rapports/rap11/epfxemr4.html
Rapport du groupe de travail
sur la mission « Soirées
étudiantes et week-ends
d'intégration »
Report of the working group about
“Student festive evenings and integration weekends”
SINTES survey 2009 on the composition of synthesis products
Divers accidents survenus en début
d'année universitaire ont concerné des
étudiants qui assistaient à des soirées
festives dans le cadre d'intégrations en
établissements. Dans ce contexte, l’auteur a été chargée d'une mission de
réflexion sur les actions pouvant être
menées afin de protéger les étudiants
des dérives qu'occasionne ce type de
rassemblements. Sur la base d'auditions
menées avec les acteurs impliqués dans
ce type d'évènements, l'auteur émet
des propositions autour de 3 axes :
faire évoluer le cadre juridique (obligation pour les responsables d'événements à en déclarer les modalités aux
établissements de tutelle, aux mairies
et/ou préfectures des lieux) ; organiser
des contrôles afin de vérifier le respect
de la loi HPST (Hôpital, patients, santé
et territoires) qui concerne la vente
d'alcool à prix réduit pendant une
période donnée ; accompagner les
chefs d'établissements avec des « boites à outils » qui les renseignent sur
les ressources disponibles pour la formation, la sensibilisation et la prise en
charge des événements.
Les enquêtes Sintes permettent d'apporter un éclairage sur la composition
des substances illicites consommées
par les usagers. L'enquête 2009 a porté
sur les produits de synthèse. À partir
Martine Daoust - Ministère de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche,
2011, 35p.
www.ladocumentationfrancaise.fr/ra
pports-publics/114000100/index.shtml
Christian Ben Lakhdar, Aurélie Lermenier, Nicolas G Vaillant - Observatoire
français des drogues et des toxicomanies, Tendances n° 75, mars 2011, 6p.
www.ofdt.fr/ofdtdev/live/publi/tend/t
end75.html
Enquête SINTES 2009 sur la
composition des produits de
synthèse
Rôles et fonctions des consommations de produits psychoactifs des jeunes adultes
Roles and functions of the consumption of psychoactive drugs among
young adults
À travers les témoignages de jeunes
adultes fortement consommateurs de
stupéfiants et/ou d'alcool, apparaissent
dans cette étude, les rôles et fonctions
de ces consommations au regard des
différentes dimensions et trajectoires
d'entrée dans la vie adulte. Elle s'intéresse au sens des consommations de
ces 18-30 ans et à leur variation au
cours du temps, en les replaçant dans
leurs contextes. L'étude fait apparaitre
plusieurs profils d'usagers intensifs,
analyse les logiques d’usages et identifie les figures « repoussoir » mobilisées dans les représentations de ces
consommateurs. La synthèse des
résultats propose enfin d'explorer des
pistes de réflexion pour une prévention des addictions contextualisée qui
s'appuierait sur le développement de
certains facteurs de protection.
Chloé Hamant - CIRDD Rhône-Alpes,
Conseil Régional Rhône-Alpes, janv
2011, 72 p.
www.cirdd-ra.org/publication.php
Consommations de substances
psychoactives chez les jeunes
polynésiens
Consumption of psychoactive substances among young Polynesians
La consommation de substances psychoactives par les adolescents polynésiens est un enjeu de santé publique
majeur dont la description épidémiologique reste parcellaire. Pour combler
ce manque, une enquête appuyée sur
des indicateurs internationaux validés
permettant des comparaisons avec la
métropole et d'autres territoires océaniens a été mise en œuvre auprès d'un
échantillon représentatif de l'ensemble
de la population scolarisée du secondaire. S'adressant à tous les professionnels de la santé et de l'éducation,
cet ouvrage présente les résultats de
l'enquête et dresse un profil complet
des adolescents polynésiens en
matière de comportements de santé. Il
renforce les connaissances sur leurs
addictions en termes de prévalence et
de facteurs associés et met l'accent sur
leur santé, leurs conditions de vie,
leurs préoccupations, leur sommeil,
leur niveau de bien-être et leurs centres d'intérêt. Il propose enfin des pistes pour la mise en place d'une politique de santé publique plus efficace car
mieux comprise.
François Beck, Marie-Françoise
Brugiroux & Nicole Cerf - Direction
de la Santé polynésienne & INPES,
2011, 202p - ISBN : 978-2916192253
www.inpes.sante.fr/CFESBases/catal
ogue/pdf/1341.pdf
Livre blanc de l'addictologie
française. 100 propositions
pour réduire les dommages des
addictions en France
White Paper for the French addictology. 100 proposals to reduce the
damage of addiction in France
Publié en mai 2011, coordonné par
Michel Reynaud et Alain Morel, ce
document a pour objectif d'interpeller
les décideurs politiques en dressant le
bilan du plan addiction 2007-2011 et
en formulant 100 propositions pour
définir les priorités en matière de
réduction des dommages liés aux
addictions.
Fédération Francaise d'Addictologie
(FFA), Juin 2011, 44 p.
http://courrier.cirddalsace.fr/10/FFA
_Livre_Blanc_2012.pdf
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Addictions :
s'en sortir, c'est possible
Addictions: getting away is possible
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Ce document dresse un état des lieux
sans concession de la consommation
de drogues, d'alcool ou encore de
médicaments en France. Il pointe aussi
les anomalies en termes de prise en
charge des personnes addictes, tout en
saluant certaines initiatives. Il comporte, en outre, une série de 12 propositions pour faire réfléchir et inciter à
agir. À l'heure où la France s'interroge
sur l'utilité d'ouvrir des « shooting
rooms » à travers le territoire, où 20 %
des accidents du travail, de l'absentéisme ou des conduites déviantes sur le
lieu de travail sont liés à des addictions,
ce document se veut tel un pavé dans
la mare et un brûlot dans la cour des
politiques, du corps médical et de tous
les acteurs du système de santé impliqués dans la prise en charge des personnes addictes.
Marie de Noailles, David Delapalme
& Gérard Chevalier - ActionAddiction,
mai 2011, 89p.
www.lepublieur.com/j/ouvrageT?idc
=599138&idd=45999&idf=1247
PORTUGAL
Guia de recursos da saúde e
dependências
Resources guide for health and
dependencies
A publicação, agora disponibilizada a
todos os intervenientes e interessados
na área das dependências, onde se
pode encontrar a história, a evolução
e o modelo português de intervenção,
visa ser um guia de : Respostas da
saúde e das dependências em Portugal;
Informação das instituições europeias
e mundiais ; Informação sobre as
substancias psicoactivas.
Equipa da Revista Depêndencias,
Maio 2011, 252p.
www.portaldasaude.pt/portal/conteu
dos/a+saude+em+portugal/noticias/g
uia+dep.htm
SPAIN
Cannabis social clubs in Spain:
A normalising alternative
underway
Los clubes sociales de cannabis en
España: Una alternativa normalizadora en marcha
Cannabis social clubs are noncommercial organisations of users who get
together to cultivate and distribute
enough cannabis to meet their personal
needs. They are based on the fact that
the consumption of illegal drugs has
never been considered a crime under
Spanish legislation. Taking advantage
of this grey area, these private clubs
have existed for years. Since their
appearance in 2002, they have enabled
several thousand people to stop financing the black market and to know the
quality and origin of what they are
consuming, whilst creating jobs and
tax revenue. This article outlines the
nature and functioning of these clubs.
It also proposes a better route for legalisation of drugs: rejecting the creation
of an open trade system, similar to
that of alcohol or tobacco and opting
instead for a consumer-focused, nonprofit model that avoids many of the
risks inherent in a market dominated
by the pursuit of economic profit.
Martín Barriuso Alonso -Transnational
Institute (Series on Legislative Reform
of Drug Policies Nr. 9) & Federation
of Cannabis Associations, Jan 2011,
8p in English and also in Spanish.
http://idpc.net/sites/default/files/libra
ry/dlr9.pdf
Habla con ellos de las nuevas
tecnologías. Guía para padres
Talking with youth about new
technologies. Guide for parents
Este material se dirige a las familias
interesadas en aprender pautas concretas de actuación con sus hijos con respecto al buen uso de las tecnologías.
Se pretende facilitar su tarea educativa
orientándoles hacia la prevención de
posibles comportamientos problemáticos. Es importante que este tipo de
actuaciones se lleven a cabo en edades
tempranas, pues los niños se inician
cada vez antes en el uso de las nuevas
tecnologías. En el caso de la presente
guía, las tecnologías pueden causar
problemas de abuso o adicciones
denominadas 'no tóxicas', es decir, que
determinadas personas sufren angustia, ansiedad, nerviosismo o irritabilidad una vez que dejan de jugar o utilizar el móvil o de usar Internet.
Juan del Pozo Irribarría, Ana González
- Gobierno de la Rioja, Dirección
General de Salud Pública y Consumo,
Servicio de Drogodependencias, abril
2011, 135p - ISBN: 978-8481253474
www.riojasalud.es/ficheros/guia_tecnologias.pdf
La metodología de la comunidad
terapéutica
Methodology for therapeutic communities
Este manual recupera la vieja noción
de comunidad terapéutica como metodología de trabajo adaptada a las necesidades y demandas actuales. Se trata,
por tanto, de un texto orientado hacia
los profesionales que trabajan en dispositivos residenciales, en los cuales,
la labor cotidiana del profesional está
bien fundamentada en su correspondiente disciplina, pero la institución
en cuanto tal funciona con un cierto
grado de espontaneidad y con referencias difusas. Se trata de aspectos que
se resuelven, bien mediante organigramas jerárquicos poco eficaces o
mediante aproximaciones generales al
“trabajo en equipo”, sin una adecuada
restitución al carácter residencial de la
institución y la condición de residentes
con diversos problemas de las personas
acogidas en el dispositivo.
Fundación Atenea Grupo GID, Mar
2011, 392p - ISBN: 978-8461468317
http://fundacionatenea.org/?p=1197
Manual de buenas prácticas
para la apertura de una sala
de consumo supervisado
Good practices manual for opening
a supervised consumption room
En 2010, Munduko Medikuak ha
publicado este manual con el objetivo
de analizar y difundir los elementos
clave del proceso de apertura de la sala
de consumo supervisado de Bilbao,
demostrando la necesidad de establecer
una colaboración entre la comunidad y
las administraciones públicas. Este
manual pretende contribuir al debate
sobre la ampliación de la agenda de
derechos ciudadanos para las personas
drogodependientes, desde una perspectiva de convivencia inclusiva.
María del Río & Alessandro Bua Munduko Medikuak / Gobierno Vasco,
2010, 100p
www.drogomedia.com/readnovedades.php?id_nov=391&id=2
Programas preventivos
de las drogodependencias:
Guía de evaluación
Drug use prevention programmes:
guide for evaluation
Esta guía quiere ser un instrumento de
fácil acceso para aquellas personas
que, habiendo llevado a cabo una
intervención preventiva en drogodependencias, se encuentren ante la
necesidad de conocer la eficacia y la
eficiencia de las acciones realizadas,
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Euskadi y Drogas 2010
The Basque country and drugs
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para que, en primer lugar, se adapten
lo máximo posible a las necesidades
de los grupos diana; en segundo lugar,
se puedan reorientar para conseguir
los objetivos previstos, y, en tercer
lugar, se haga un máximo aprovechamiento y una mejor distribución de los
recursos disponibles.
Sílvia Font-Mayolas, Eugènia Gras y
Montserrat Planes - Diputación de
Barcelona, 2010, 155p - ISBN: 9788498033748
www1.diba.cat/llibreria/pdf/46945.pdf
Protocolo de atención
a familiares de abusadores
o dependientes de drogas
u otras conductas adictivas
Care protocol for relatives of drug
users or of people having other
addictive behaviours
En este documento se expone la intervención terapéutica con los familiares
implicados por el problema adictivo
de uno de los miembros del sistema
familiar, para lo cual se parte de la
realización de una clasificación y descripción de los mismos; se aportan
instrumentos de evaluación, pautas
terapéuticas y sesiones de intervención.
La clasificación de los familiares se
realiza teniendo presente dos variables:
la colaboración en el proceso terapéutico del adicto, y los síntomas de
malestar que padece el familiar afectado.
De aquí, que el presente protocolo se
base en la existencia conjunta de dos
líneas de trabajo independientes, que
en determinados casos pueden ser
simultáneas, y casi siempre complementarias: • Una, consistente en facilitar pautas terapéuticas al familiar
como apoyo a la persona con adicción.
• Otra centrada en el apoyo y asistencia al propio familiar (su proceso terapéutico). En determinados casos, los
síntomas del familiar concluirán en un
diagnóstico propio, tema que ampliamente es tratado en este documento.
Servicio Extremeño de Salud,
Consejería de Sanidad y
Dependencia, Junta de Extremadura,
2011, 153p - ISBN: 978-8496958715
www.pnsd.msc.es/Categoria2/publica/
pdf/ProtocoloAtencionaFamiliares.pdf
Euskadi y Drogas es una encuesta
domiciliaria, de periodicidad bienal,
orientada a conocer los consumos de
diversas sustancias por parte de la
población vasca de 15 a 74 años de
edad, así como su percepción respecto
a diversas cuestiones relacionadas con
las drogas y las drogodependencias.
2010: Desciende el consumo de drogas ilegales pero el consumo de
tabaco se mantiene estable.
Gobierno Vasco, Departamento de
Sanidad y Consumo, abril 2011, 14p.
www.osakidetza.euskadi.net/r85cknoti03/es/contenidos/nota_prensa/
prensasanidad228/es_ps228/prensasanidad228.html
En movimiento.
Escribo mi propia historia
Moving. Writing my own story
La Dirección General de Atención a
las Drogodependencias de Islas
Canarias ha editado este DVD con seis
spots que inciden en las alternativas
de ocio frente al consumo de drogas.
El material va dirigido a la población
juvenil y está pensado para ser una
herramienta de trabajo con los jóvenes.
Con este material se busca desarrollar
una línea preventiva basada en la
creatividad a través e cinco mensajes:
'Usa tu química', 'Te sale de dentro',
'Marca tu ritmo', 'Escribe tu propia
historia' y 'Esto y más'; mensajes que
son reforzados con imágenes, música
y un montaje que buscan despertar el
gusto por la vida e invitan a disfrutar
de emociones y diversión a través de
actividades y espacios de relación
saludables. Spots:
www2.gobiernodecanarias.org/sanidad/dgad/estudios/mipropiahistoria/
Un lugar para otra vida: los
centros residenciales y terepéuticos del movimiento carismático y pentecostés en España
A place for another life: the therapeutic residential centres of the charismatic pentecostal movement in
Spain
Este texto, editado con la financiación
de la Delegación del Gobierno para el
Plan Nacional sobre Drogas, analiza,
de forma exhaustiva y combinando
varias líneas de investigación, los centros de internamiento del movimiento
pentecostal en España. Un tema del
cual, a pesar de su expansión y su
visibilidad en nuestras calles, no se ha
trabajado ni publicado demasiado. Su
autor es Domingo Comas Arnau, doctor en Ciencias Políticas y Sociología,
licenciado en Antropología Social y
presidente de la Fundación Atenea. Se
dedica a la investigación social siendo
sus líneas de trabajo principales, adicciones, religión y creencias, juventud
y cambio social.
Domingo Comas Arnau - Fundación
Atenea Grupo Gid, Mayo 2011, 159p
http://fundacionatenea.org/?p=1192
UNITED KINGDOM
Addiction to medicine
This report considers the problems
encountered by the use of psychotropic
and opioid analgesic medication (such
as diazepam and tramadol) in the
general population (including that
encountered by people reporting problems with illegal drugs) and the role
of health services, including specialist
addiction, pain and primary care services in order to address these issues.
It includes contribution from over 100
professionals from across England,
including: service commissioners and
medicine management leads from 88
local areas, lead clinicians, pharmacists,
GPs and specialist service providers.
Individuals who develop problems in
relation to prescribed or over-thecounter medicines are likely to need to
access a range of services whose
intensity of support reflects the severity
of the problems they experience. This
might range from low intensity information and advice through to higher
intensity treatment and rehabilitation
services. While the provision of information advice and support services is
considered, the main focus of this
study is the provision of structured
treatment services.
National Treatment Agency for substance misuse, May 2011, 32p.
www.nta.nhs.uk/addiction-to-medicine.aspx
The changing use of prescribed
benzodiazepines and z-drugs
and of over-the-counter
codeine-containing products
in England
People can become dependent on tranquilisers, sleeping pills and opiate based
painkillers, such as codeine, particularly
if taken at high doses for long periods.
Long-term dependence on substances
such as benzodiazepines has been
identified as a particular issue. Reports
reveal that the overall prescribing of
benzodiazepines is falling but that
their prescription to treat anxiety
continues to increase as do the sale
and prescription of opioid painkillers.
Benzodiazepines, z-drugs and codeine
products. This document presents a
structured review of published English
and international evidence and available data to inform consideration of the
extent of dependence and harm.
National Treatment Agency for substance misuse, May 2011, 122p.
www.kcl.ac.uk/iop/depts/addictions/
research/drugs/benzo.pdf
Taking drugs seriously: A Demos
and UK Drug Policy Commission
report on legal highs
The proliferation of new psychoactive
substances, or 'legal highs', in recent
years has thrown the existing regulatory
measures for drugs into sharp relief.
As quickly as policy makers seek to
control new substances through the
Misuse of Drugs Act, others are being
manufactured and put on the market.
The effects of these new substances
are unknown and untested; it is this
uncertainty combined with easy accessibility that presents major challenges
to public safety. However, these challenges also provide an opportunity to
look again at drug control policy
without a rerun of redundant debates
about whether to be 'tough' or 'soft' on
drugs. Instead, this report adopts a
systems approach and considers drug
policy as a 'wicked issue' to which
there is no solution, and no ultimate
winners or losers. It is 40 years since
the Misuse of Drugs Act became law,
and the 'drug problem' is no nearer
being solved. This report argues that it
is time for a new approach to policy
making, legislation and debate on
drugs issues, focusing on developing
consensus while building better evidence about what works.
Jonathan Birdwell, Jake Chapman,
Nicola Singleton - Demos & UKDCP,
May 2011, 155p - ISBN: 978-1906693688
www.ukdpc.org.uk/publications.sht
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UKDPC briefing on drug control
issues
This short briefing paper was prepared
for a House of Lords debate on proposal for a review of drug laws.
UKDPC, March 2011, 4p.
www.ukdpc.org.uk/resources/Lords
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Options for regulating new
psychoactive drugs: a review
of recent experiences
This background paper, which reviewed
international experiences of regulating
new psychoactive substances, was prepared by Professor Peter Reuter of the
University of Maryland.
Peter Reuter - UKDPC May 2011, 32p ISBN: 978-1906246327
www.ukdpc.org.uk/publications.sht
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A response to the Department
of health “Healthy lives, healthy people” consultation
The UK Drug Policy Commission
welcomes the approach in the strategy
document Healthy Lives Healthy
People, which places drug misuse and
dependence in a public health context.
It also support the strong focus on
using and developing the evidence
base in support of interventions, and
that the budget devolved to local
authorities will be ring-fenced.
However, UKDPC expresses a number
of concerns that specifically relate to
the provision of services. This document enumerates these key concerns.
UKDPC, March 2011, 10p.
www.ukdpc.org.uk/resources/Health
y_Lives_Healthy_People_Consultati
on.pdf
By their fruits...
Applying payment by results
to drugs recovery
This briefing reviews the possible
impacts of the introduction of payment
by results to fund treatment and recovery services for problem drug users.
It outlines how payment by results
works, examines how it has been used
elsewhere, and discusses the issues
and challenges that will affect its
introduction for drug treatment. This
work is part of a wider UKDPC project
considering the impact on drug services
of a move towards greater localism in
a period of financial austerity.
UKDPC, Feb 2011, 32p - ISBN: 9781906246310
www.ukdpc.org.uk/resources/UKDP
C_PbR.pdf
need to be addressed within both
mainstream and specialist services.
Greater understanding of cultural
issues is needed in the development of
alcohol services in mainstream and
specialist settings.
Mariana Bayley & Rachel Hurcombe In “Ethnicity and Inequalities in
Health and Social Care”, Vol. 3, Issue
4, Dec. 2010 - Pier Professional, 12p.
www.pierprofessional.com/eihscflyer/downloads/EIHSC-3.4.pdf
INTERNATIONAL
2011 International Narcotics
Control Strategy Report
The 2011 International Narcotics
Control Strategy Report (INCSR) is an
annual report by the Department of
State to Congress prepared in accordance with the Foreign Assistance Act.
It describes the efforts of key countries
to attack all aspects of the international
drug trade in Calendar Year 2010. The
report is published in two volumes :
I: Drug and chemical control activities, March 2011, 596p.
Drinking patterns and alcohol
service provision for different
ethnic groups in the UK:
a review of the literature
II: Money laundering and financial
crimes, March 2011, 191p.
www.state.gov/p/inl/rls/nrcrpt/2011/i
ndex.htm
This paper reports drinking patterns
among minority ethnic groups from
the UK literature over the past 15 years,
and considers the evidence for service
provision and support. Findings show
that drinking remains low among
minority ethnic groups, though with
evidence of increases in consumption,
particularly among Indian women and
Chinese men. South Asian men, particularly Sikh men, are over-represented
for liver cirrhosis, and some ethnic
groups have higher than national average alcohol-related deaths. People
from black and minority ethnic backgrounds have similar rates of alcohol
dependency as the white population;
however services do not appear to be
responsive enough to the needs of
minority ethnic groups as they are
under-represented in seeking treatment.
Help-seeking preferences vary for
drinking problems between and within
groups suggesting that drinking problems
Corruption in the western
Balkans: bribery as experienced
by the population
NTA support secures film awards
Two short films supported by the NTA (the UK National Treatment Agency)
have recently won awards.
• 'Better drug treatment in prison', a short animated film, was recognized at the
23rd International Visual Communications Associations awards in March 2011,
winning the bronze prize in the Best animation, graphics and special effects
category. Told through the words of offenders, this imaginative short follows
the personal stories of three users and the extensive support they received in
prison in their battle to kick their habit.
• Wolverhampton's Service User Involvement Team (SUIT) film was awarded
best service user film at the National Service User Conference, Birmingham,
February 2011. The film is available on YouTube and is split into six sections:
A guide to adult services, A guide to young peoples' services, Cannabis,
Solvents, Stimulants, and Blood borne viruses. Over 700 people from various
organisations have already used the film as a training tool to raise awareness of
the dangers of using illicit substances.
www.nta.nhs.uk/news-nta-support-film-awards.aspx
Corruption is often reported to be an
area of vulnerability for the countries
of the western Balkans. It is considered
one of the main causes hindering their
economic and social development as
well as their European Union accession
process. On the basis of a bilateral
agreement between the European
Commission and the relevant national
authorities of the western Balkans,
UNODC supported each area in conducting large-scale surveys on corruption
in 2010. This collaborative study is
based on a large-scale sample survey
of more than 28,000 interviewees. The
report analyzes the sectors most affected, the role of public officials and bribepayers, forms of bribery and other
relevant issues. This information will
aid in the development of effective
anti-corruption policies. It also provides
a benchmark to assess future progress.
United Nations Office on Drugs and
Crime (UNODC), May 2011, 71p.
www.unodc.org/documents/data-andanalysis/statistics/corruption/Wester
n_balkans_corruption_report_2011_
web.pdf
WHO Report on the global
tobacco epidemic, 2009:
Implementing smoke-free
environments
The report is the second in a series
about the extent of the global tobacco
epidemic and measures to stop it. It
includes the latest global and country
figures on the prevalence of tobacco
use and on the measures' impacts. Its
theme is "smoke-free environments".
WHO chose this theme because of the
serious harmful effects of second-hand
smoke, which include about 600,000
premature deaths per year, numerous
crippling illnesses and economic losses
in the tens of billions of dollars.
WHO, Genève, 2011, 568 p. - ISBN:
978-9241563918
www.who.int/tobacco/mpower/en/
The transatlantic cocaine market
This report looks at new trend in the
trafficking of cocaine to meet growing
European demand. The volume of
cocaine consumed in Europe has doubled in the last decade. While European
law enforcement agencies have hardened their defences, traffickers continue
to innovate, seeking novel ways of
getting their product to the consumer.
Around 2004, South American traffickers began to experiment with large
volume shipments of cocaine to West
Africa. In a few years, they had managed to undermine security and sow
high-level corruption in a number of
West African states. Understanding the
trafficking routes helps understand the
risks attached to the countries involved.
UNODC, April 2011, 66p.
www.unodc.org/
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Guidance for the measurement
of drug treatment demand
This document is a practical toolkit
designed to help countries compile
comparable data on the demand for
treatment of drug problems. It looks at
the issues to be addressed in order to
reach an internationally consistent
dataset on drug treatment demand.
The guidelines include a three-stage
model for building the foundations of
a treatment demand information system, a core set of standard data
items/codes and common definitions
of treatment, drug use, treatment centres, clients and units of measurement.
UNODC, EMCDDA, April, 58p - ISBN/ISSN:
9291682780
www.emcdda.europa.eu/html.cfm/ind
ex34283EN.html www.unodc.org/pdf
/gap_toolkit_module8.pdf
Bulletin on Narcotics:
Measurement issues in drug
policy analysis
Fifty years of the 1961 Single
Convention on Narcotic Drugs:
A reinterpretation
The present issue whose guest editor
is Martin Bouchard of Simon Fraser
University in Canada, is focused on
measurement issues in drug policy
analysis. It consists of a selection of
papers presented at the Third Annual
Conference of the International
Society for the Study of Drug Policy,
held in Vienna on 2-3 March 2009.
Fifty years on, it is time for a critical
reflection on the validity of the Single
Convention today: a reinterpretation
of its historical significance and an
assessment of its aims, its strengths
and its weaknesses. Indeed, while
there is often a tendency to interpret
the treaty as part of an unbroken
continuum dating back to the first
decade of the last century, the Single
Convention must rather be seen as a
significant change in way the international community approached drug
control. Furthermore, it should not be
forgotten that the original ambition for
the 'Single' Convention to become the
'convention to end all conventions'
failed when the control regime developed further with conventions in 1971
and 1988 giving rise to new inconsistencies within the current global drug
control treaty system. This policy briefing analyses the origins and negotiations of the Single Convention, examines the way it broke with the previous
drug control system by introducing a
more prohibitive ethos, penal obligations, controls on plants and abolition
of traditional uses of plants like coca,
and concludes that a revision of its
outdated provisions is required.
United Nations Office on Drugs and
Crime (Series: Bulletin on Narcotics),
Feb 2011, 112p - ISBN: 978-9211482614
www.unodc.org/documents/data-andanalysis/bulletin/2008/Bulletin2008_w
eb.pdf
War on drugs. Report of the
Global Commission on Drug
Policy
Considering that the global war on
drugs has failed, with devastating
consequences for individuals and
societies, this report of an independent
commission recommends a world
wide review of prohibitionary policies,
especially:
• End the criminalization, marginalization and stigmatization of people who
use drugs but who do no harm to
others
• Encourage experimentation by
governments with models of legal
regulation of drugs to undermine the
power of organized crime and safeguard the health and security of their
citizens.
• Offer health and treatment services
to those in need: implement syringe
access and other harm reduction measures
• Invest in activities that can both
prevent young people from taking
drugs in the first place and also prevent those who do use drugs from
developing more serious problems.
And more…
Global Commission on Drug Policy,
June 2011, 24p.
www.globalcommissionondrugs.org/
Report
Martin Jelsma - Transnational
Institute (TNI), Series on Legislative
Reform of Drug Policies Nr. 12,
March 2011, 20p.
www.tni.org/briefing/fifty-years1961-single-convention-narcoticdrugs-reinterpretation
Guidance on the WHO review
of psychoactive substances for
international control
This revised guidance governs the
evaluation of substances for WHO's
recommendations to the Commission
on Narcotic Drugs (CND). It provides
a overview for all those involved in
the evaluation process: the Expert
Committee on Drug Dependence, in
order to make the right recommendation while following correct procedures,
or representatives to the CND, in order
to better understand any recommendations made to the Commission by WHO.
Furthermore, it can help any interested
person to understand the scheduling
process in international drug control.
It contains the text in its final form as
it was adopted by the Executive Board,
including three appendices, of which
Appendix 3 is a visual representation
of the evaluation process in the format
of a Flow Chart. It also presents the
report by the Secretariat which contains
the elucidation of the document by the
WHO Secretariat to the Executive Board
and the part of the Summary Records
from the Executive Board session that
reflects the discussion on the proposal,
its amending and its adoption.
WHO, Jan. 2011, 36p - ISBN: 9789241500555
http://apps.who.int/medicinedocs/en/
m/abstract/Js17538en/
The WHO ASSIST package
The World Health Organization launched severals manuals for the Alcohol,
Smoking and Substance Involvement
Screening Test (ASSIST). The package
includes three different materials:
• The Alcohol, Smoking and Substance
involvement Screening Test: this
manual introduces the ASSIST and describes how to use it in health care settings - particularly community based
primary health care settings - to identify people who are using substances
and assess the health risks associated
with substance use, so that a brief discussion or a referral to specialist centre can be provided as appropriate.
• The ASSIST-linked brief intervention
for hazardous and harmful substance
use: this manual explains the rational
for providing brief discussion based
interventions in health care settings
and describe how health care workers
can conduct brief interventions for
clients whose substance use is putting
their health at risk.
• Self-help strategies for cutting down
or stopping substance use: a guide
developed to assist patients who are at
risk because of their substance use to
weigh up their substance use behavior
and to change it using self-help strategies.
World Health Organization (WHO),
March 2011
www.who.int/substance_abuse/publi
cations/media_assist/en/index.html
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Out of harm's way : Injecting
drug users and harm reduction
À l'abri du danger : consommateurs
de drogues injectables et réduction
des risques
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Ukrainian drug legislation and
the European Convention for
the Protection of Human Rights
and Fundamental Freedoms
In October 2010 Ukrainian Ministry
of Health issued a Resolution introducing amendments to the 'Table of drug
substance amount', which resulted in
significant (up to 20 fold) reduction of
drug amounts, possession of which
implies criminal responsibility. This
discussion paper was developed by
EHRN and Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal
Network in reaction to the changes in
the drug legislation in Ukraine. Paper
argues the incompatibility of Ukrainian
table of drug substance amount within
the framework of European Convention
for the Protection of Human Rights
and Fundamental Freedoms.
Mikhail Golichenko, Canadian
HIV/AIDS Legal Network & Simona
Merkinaite, Eurasian Harm Reduction
Network, 2011, 40p.
www.harm-reduction.org/ehrnpublications.html
Addressing the harmful use of
alcohol. A guide to developing
effective alcohol regulation
The legislation guide provides advice
on approaches to alcohol regulation to
support development of effective
legislation appropriate to each country.
It provides practical advice based on
international experience about the
implications of legislative options,
steps to be taken to implement legislation and best practice on how to
enforce legislation and support compliance. The policy options covered
are taxation and pricing, regulating the
sale of alcohol to the public, minimum
age restrictions, alcohol marketing and
drink driving.
WHO Regional Office for the Western
Pacific, 2011, 118p -ISBN: 9789290615033
www.wpro.who.int/publications/PU
B_9789290615033.htm
This report depicts the stark reality of
what it means to be an injecting drug
user and living with HIV. It examines
the prevention, treatment, and care
needs of this most at-risk population
and the IFRC response to their plight.
It also offers National Societies and
the reader an advocacy tool that can
be used for years to come. The aim?
To remind governments and national
societies of the obligation to respect
the human rights of injecting drug
users at risk of, or living with, HIV.
Although the focus is global, it places
a special emphasis on Eastern Europe
and Central Asia where the situation is
becoming increasingly dire.
International Federation of Red Cross
and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC),
Dec 2010, 24p. In English, French,
Spanish and Arabic.
www.ifrc.org/en/publications-andreports/general-publications/
A systematic review and metaanalysis of interventions to prevent hepatitis C virus infection
in people who inject drugs
High rates of hepatitis C virus (HCV)
transmission are found in samples of
people who inject drugs (PWID). The
objective of this paper was to analyze
the effects of risk-reduction interventions on HCV seroconversion and identify the effective intervention types.
Interventions using strategies that
combined substance-use treatment and
support for safe injection were most
effective at reducing HCV seroconversion. Determining the effective dose
and combination of interventions for
specific subgroups of PWID is a research
priority. However, this meta-analysis
shows that HCV infection can be prevented in PWID.
Holly Hagan, Enrique R Pouget &
Don C Des Jarlais - Oxford University
Press - In “The Journal of Infectious
Diseases” 2011, No 204: 74-83p.
www.idpc.net/sites/default/files/libra
ry/hep-c-idus.pdf
ASIA
HIV & Islam. Responsible
religious response to HIV & AIDS
in Malaysia
Since the HIV epidemic was established
in 1986, a total of 65,235 cases of HIV
have been reported in the Malay
Muslim community. Injecting drug use
is a factor that predisposes Muslim
Malays to the risk of HIV infection.
The profile of injecting drug users in
the country has been predominantly
male, young, of Malay ethnicity and
heterosexual. Strict and prohibitive
legal, religious and socio-cultural
environments also negatively impact
on access to appropriate education,
and treatment, care and support services in the Muslim Malay population.
Recognising the low level of engagement of Islamic religious authorities in
responses to HIV/AIDS, the Malaysian
AIDS Council took the pragmatic
approach of building strategic partnerships with religious organisations. The
HIV & Islam programme was born out
of this initiative in 2009. Partnership
with the religious policy-making
Department of Islamic Development
(JAKIM) has successfully opened doors
of opportunities for more meaningful
engagement with religious leaders and
other key players to effectively respond
to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. As a result,
principles previously founded on
staunch conservatism have now been
replaced with pragmatism.
Malaysian AID Council, 2011, 28p.
www.aidsalliance.org/includes/document/hivislambrief2010_1.pdf
Good practices in Asia :
Effective paradigm shifts
towards an improved national
response to drugs and HIV/AIDS
This report documents the good practices in harm reduction programmes in
Malaysia and the progress in addressing the transmission of HIV among
people who use drugs. It highlights
how policies and programmes have
addressed this through strong and
committed leadership, community participation, sustained partnerships, and
multisectoral collaboration. From a
punitive approach to drugs and HIV,
Malaysia’s efforts to scale down compulsory drug treatment and develop
comprehensive harm reduction services are elements of good practice that
deserve to be documented and shared.
The endorsement of harm reduction
by supportive leadership has been the
key element responsible for the success
of the programme. Evidence-based
harm reduction interventions, such as
needle and syringe programmes,
methadone maintenance therapy and
provision of antiretroviral therapy,
have been systematically expanded and
integrated into public health services.
While challenges remain, the consistent evolution of in the national response to HIV and drugs has been
encouraging and successfully mobilized large numbers of dedicated individuals and groups.
WHO Western Pacific Region and
Ministry of Health of Malaysia, April
2011, 61p - ISBN: 978-9290615194
www.who.int/hiv/pub/idu/idu_harm
_malaysia/en/index.html
Kratom in Thailand:
Decriminalisation
and community control?
This briefing is based on desk research
of documentation and research carried
out in October and November 2010 in
Thailand. Kratom (Mitragynia speciosa
korth) is a tropical deciduous tree that
is part of the Rubiaceae family (like
coffee). The tree produces big leaves
that have long been used for medicinal
and recreational purposes. Kratom use
acts on the central nervous system,
both as a stimulant and a depressant,
depending on the level of dosage.
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Kratom leaves contain over 25 alkaloids, among which the mitragynine is
the most important. Kratom has been
traditionally chewed by people in
Thailand, especially on the southern
peninsula, as well as in other countries
in Southeast Asia. In Thailand, its use
is not perceived as 'drug use' and does
not lead to stigmatisation of users.
People from the southern provinces, in
Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat provinces,
are predominantly Muslim and are
prohibited from drinking alcohol based
on the dictates of Islamic beliefs. With
strict controls on alcohol, kratom is an
alternative substitute, not specifically
prohibited by the clergy, but regulated
by the state. Recent drug use trends in
Thailand indicate that a second pattern
of kratom use is emerging. Five years
ago, young people started boiling kratom leaves to produce a tea as a base
for a cocktail coined 4x100. This
cocktail includes the kratom tea,
cough syrup, Coca-Cola, and ice
cubes. It is generally prepared twice or
more per day, depending on availability of leaves and money. Young people feel the need to drink it in hidden
settings due to fears of arrest by law
enforcement. Compared to traditional
use, its users are subject to some measure of community discrimination,
though community perceptions are far
milder than for yaba or heroin users.
Transnational Institute (TNI), Series on
Legislative Reform of Drug Policy 13,
April 2011, 16p.
www.tni.org/sites/www.tni.org/files/d
ownload/kratom-briefing-dlr13.pdf
On the frontline of Northeast
India. Evaluating a decade
of harm reduction in Manipur
and Nagaland
Northeast India is a region with
serious drug use problems. This briefing examines the drug-related problems and evaluates the policy responses in Nagaland and Manipur, two
sparsely populated states in that
region, bordering Burma. These states
have the highest prevalence of injecting drug users (IDUs) in India. Unsafe
practices, especially needle sharing
among IDUs, have been the main drivers of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the
region. By the end of the 1990s,
Manipur had become the “AIDS capital
of India”, and also Nagaland is suffering a high incidence of HIV among
injecting drug users. More recently,
there has been a shift from injecting
heroin to injecting pharmaceuticals
causing other severe health problems,
including abscesses leading to life
threatening infections, and eventual
amputations. Although antiretroviral
therapy is now accessible in Northeast
India, many drug users also suffer
from hepatitis C infection, now their
main cause of mortality, as affordable
treatment is not available.
Transnational Institute (TNI), Drug
Policy Briefing 35, 12p.
www.tni.org/briefing/frontline-northeast-india
AUSTRALIA
Injecting drug use and
associated harms among
Aboriginal Australians
This report highlights a number of key
findings. It indicates that the proportion of injecting drug users accessing
safe injecting services who are
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
has more than doubled in ten years
from a rate of 5% in 1995 to 10% in
2005. One of the main findings is the
lack of comparable, reliable national
data, with very little research available
that has explicitly attempted to assess
the prevalence of injecting drug use
among these people, at a national
level. The report also highlights the
need to improve service responses for
these people. Increasing training and
support for people working with them
is identified as an effective way of
achieving improving service responses. This includes the availability of
nationally accredited training for all
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
drug and alcohol workers, and cultural
sensitivity training for mainstream
health workers.
Australian National Council on Drugs
(ANDC) & National Indigenous Drug
& Alcohol Committee (NIDAC), April
2011, 138p - ISBN: 978-1877018251
www.nidac.org.au/images/PDFs/rp2
2_injecting_drug_use.pdf
BOLIVIA
Lifting the ban on coca
chewing. Bolivia's proposal
to amend the 1961 Single
Convention
January 31 marked the close of the
18-month period during which countries could submit objections to
Bolivia's proposal to remove from the
1961 Single Convention on Narcotic
Drugs the obligation to abolish the
practice of coca chewing. 18 countries
notified the UN Secretary General that
they could not accept the proposed
amendment: the US, the UK, Sweden,
Canada, Denmark, Germany, the
Russian Federation, Japan, Singapore,
Slovakia, Estonia, France, Italy,
Bulgaria, Latvia, Malaysia, Mexico
and Ukraine. The US convened a
group of “friends of the convention”
to rally against what they perceived to
be an undermining of the “integrity”
of the treaty and its guiding principle
to limit the trade and use of narcotic
drugs exclusively to medical and
scientific purposes. The UN Economic
and Social Council (ECOSOC) will
have to decide how to proceed, most
likely during its substantive session in
Geneva this July. This briefing paper
analyses the reasons behind the proposed amendment and the opposing
arguments that have been brought forward, and outlines the various options
to be considered as the fate of
Bolivia's proposal is determined.
Simply rejecting the amendment will
not make the issue disappear.
Martin Jelsma - Transnational Institute
(TNI), Series on Legislative Reform of
Drug Policies Nr. 11, March 2011, 8p.
www.tni.org/briefing/lifting-bancoca-chewing
CANADA
Alcohol and drug use among
drivers
In the spring of 2010, the Government
of British Columbia announced new
sanctions for drinking drivers. As part
of an evaluation of the impact of these
new sanctions, a random survey of
drivers was conducted at preselected
locations in British Columbia from
Wednesday to Saturday nights in June
2010. The primary purpose was to
gather information on the prevalence
of alcohol use among nighttime drivers to be used as a pre-legislation
baseline for the evaluation. Drivers
were randomly sampled from the traffic stream between 21:00 and 03:00
and were asked to provide a voluntary
breath sample to measure their alcohol
use and an oral fluid sample to be tested subsequently for the presence of
drugs. Of the 2,840 vehicles selected,
86% of drivers provided a breath sample and 71% provided a sample of oral
fluid. The results show that drug use
among drivers is not uncommon and
that the pattern of drug use by drivers
differs from that of alcohol use. For
example, whereas the prevalence of
alcohol use increases during late night
hours, particularly on Friday and
Saturday nights, drug use appears
more consistent across days and times.
The different patterns of alcohol and
drug use by drivers suggest that driving
after drug use presents a unique behaviour that differs from driving after
drinking, indicating the need for a
separate and distinct approach to
enforcement, public education, prevention, and research.
Douglas J Beirness & Erin E Beasley,
British Columbia Roadside Survey Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse,
2011, 25p - ISBN: 978-1926705644
www.ccsa.ca/Eng/KnowledgeCentre/
OurPublications/Priorities/Pages/def
ault.aspx
Secondhand smoke exposure
at building entrances: A public
health concern
This OTRU update (Ontario Tobacco
Research Unit) summarizes findings
that were published by Kaufman P,
Zhang B, Bondy SJ, Klepeis N,
Ferrence R: “Not just 'a few wisps':
real-time measurement of tobacco
smoke at entrances to office buildings”, in Tobacco Control 2011;
3:212-218
www.otru.org/
Online articles on the OTRU
website
A section of the OTRU website provides
a monthly list of selected journal articles and reports on tobacco topics,
with an emphasis on Canadian authors
and research. This list provides links
to abstatcts, and some articles are
downloadable such as :
• Children and youth perceive smoking
messages in an unbranded advertisement from a NIKE marketing campaign:
A cluster randomised controlled trial
• The relation between nicotine dependence and suicide attempts in the
general population
• State smoke-free laws for worksites,
resaturants, and bars - US, 2000-2010
• Moving ioward a tobacco-free Nova
Scotia: Comprehensive tobacco
control strategy for Nova Scotia
• Gender empowerment and female-tomale smoking prevalence ratios
www.otru.org/current_abstracts.html
n° 33 June 2011 - 30
UNITED STATES
National drug threat
assessment 2010
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This report provides policymakers,
law enforcement executives, resource
planners, and counterdrug program
coordinators with strategic intelligence
regarding the threat posed to the US
by the trafficking and abuse of illicit
drugs. The assessment highlights strategic trends in the production, transportation, distribution, and abuse of
illegal and controlled prescription
drugs. It also presents strategic intelligence regarding the operational trends
and tendencies of drug trafficking
organizations and street gangs that
distribute illegal drugs and highlight
drug trafficking trends along the
Southwest Border.
National Drug Intelligence Centre,
Feb 2011, updated in May, 84p Document ID: 2010-Q0317-001
www.justice.gov/ndic/
Oxymorphone abuse:
A growing threat nationwide
Law enforcement and public health
officials throughout the country are
reporting that oxymorphone abuse is
increasing. Oxymorphone is most
commonly known by the brand name
Opana®. The deaths of at least nine
Louisville area residents between
January and April 2011 have been linked to polydrug abuse of oxymorphone in combination with alprazolam
and/or alcohol; more oxymorphonerelated deaths are expected to be
confirmed as toxicology testing is
completed on other decedents.
SENTRY Watch No 00011, May 2011, 2p.
www.justice.gov/ndic/topics/sentry
Watch.htm
The economic impact of illicit
drug use in American society
This report looked at the most recent
year in which data was available and
examined expenses associated with
crime, health and medical treatment,
and lost productivity related to the use
of illegal drugs and the abuse of pharmaceuticals. It especially looked at
expenses involving the use of marijuana, heroin, cocaine, methamphetamines and improper use of several
categories of prescription drugs, including tranquilizers and pain relievers. It
provides the Office of National Drug
Control Policy and other federal officials with a broad and deep understanding of the full burden that illicit drug
use places on America. The assessment is conducted within a Cost of
Illness framework that has guided
work of this kind for several decades.
As such, it monetises the consequences of illicit drug use, thereby allowing its impact to be gauged relative
to other social problems.
National Drug Intelligence Centre (US
Department of Justice), April 2011,
123p - Product No. 2011-Q0317-002
Eastern Pennsylvania drug and
gang threat assessment 2011
This document discusses significant
trends in drug trafficking and gang
activity in eastern Pennsylvania.
Among the key findings in this assessment is that the influence of New York
area (New York City and northern
New Jersey) drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) and gangs reaches nearly
every sizable drug market in eastern
Pennsylvania.
March 2011, 38p - Product No. 2011Q0317-005
Epidemic: Responding
to America's prescription drug
abuse crisis
A new government strategy aims to
cut the use of prescription painkillers
by 15% in five years. The plan includes doctor training, promoting prescription databases in all states and
increased focus on rooting out illegal
'pill mill' clinics. The plan will include
a requirement that doctors who prescribe oxycodone and other opioids
undergo training on proper prescription practices. The plan also includes a
media campaign about the dangers of
opioids. A major part of the proposal
will be a push for prescription drug
databases in every state, the AP
reports. Now 35 states have prescription drug monitoring programs, and
eight more states, including Florida,
the epicenter of the pill mills, have
authorized databases that are not yet
running. A fourth part of the plan
focuses on aggressively enforcing
laws against pill mills.
Office of National Drug Control
Policy (ONDCP), April 2011, 11p.
www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/publ
ications/pdf/rx_abuse_plan.pdf
A response to the epidemic
of prescription drug abuse
This factsheet provides information on
ONDCP's Prescription Drug Abuse
Prevention Plan, and provides facts on
the subject and describes various classes of prescription drugs.
Office of National Drug Control
Policy (ONDCP), April 2011, 4p.
ications/pdf/rx_epidemic.pdf
Promising practices toolkit:
working with drug endangered
children and their families
This toolkit is a compilation of many
of those practices for your use, separated into three categories: (1) increasing awareness, (2) fostering community collaboration, and (3) creating a
more effective response (“Response”).
It aims to provide guidance and resources to professionals in identifying, responding to, and serving drug endangered children.
Federal Task Force on Drug Endangered Children, May 2011, 27p.
ications/
Young adults in the workplace:
a multisite initiative
of substance use
The Substance Abuse & Mental Health
Services Administration funded the
multisite Young Adults in the Workplace (YIW) initiative to study the
effectiveness of diverse approaches
to workplace-based prevention of
substance abuse. Six teams adapted
evidence-based programs to target
young employees and then implemented the programs in retail, restaurant,
health care, construction, skilled trade,
and transportation industry workplaces.
This book describes the programs, the
adaptation and implementation processes, and the YIW cross-site evaluation.
Jeremy W. Bray, Deborah M. Galvin,
and Laurie A. Cluff - RTI International, Publication No. BK-0005-1103
March 2011, 159p.
www.rti.org/publications/rtipress.cf
m?pub=16754
Trends in emergency
department visits for drugrelated suicide attempts among
females: 2005 & 2009
A new national study shows that from
2005 to 2009 (the most recent year
with available figures) there was a
49% increase in emergency department visits for drug related suicide
attempts by women aged 50 and older
- from 11,235 visits in 2005 to 16,757
in 2009. This increase reflects the overall population growth of women aged
50 and older. This report also shows
that, while overall rates for these types
of hospital emergency department
visits by women of all ages remained
relatively stable throughout this period,
visits involving particular pharmaceuticals increased. For example, among
females, emergency department visits
for suicide attempts involving drugs to
treat anxiety and insomnia increased
56% during this period - from 32,426
in 2005 to 50,548 in 2009.
SAMHSA, Center for Behavioral Health
Statistics and Quality, Dawn report,
May 2011, 6p.
www.oas.samhsa.gov/2k11/DAWN01
1/DrugRelatedSuicide_HTML.pdf
Alcohol dependence is more
likely among adults with mental
illness than adults without
mental illness
This report shows that alcohol dependence is four times more likely to
occur among adults with mental illness than among adults with no mental illness (9.6% versus 2.2%). It also
shows that the rate of alcohol dependency increases as the severity of the
mental illness increases. For example,
while 7.9% of those with mild mental
illness were alcohol dependent, 10%
of those with moderate mental illness
and 13.2% of those with serious mental illness were alcohol dependent.
SAMHSA Spotlight report, May 2011, 1p.
http://oas.samhsa.gov/spotlight/Spot
light027AlcoholDependence.pdf
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For more information:
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Journal chief editor
Annie Singer
Christine Goodair
ICDP, Uk
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OFDT, France
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Sirus, Norway
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Sociomedia, Finland
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for Drugs and Drug Addiction
La Plaine Saint-Denis (Paris)
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• 24 June 2010, Paris, FR
Corps & âme, les addictions. 40th
birthday of the Marmottan Hospital
www.hopital-marmottan.fr/
• 28 June 2011, London, UK
Drugs & Alcohol Today: Understanding and implementing the Government's new Drug Strategy
www.pavpub.com/p-384-drugs-andalcohol-today-2011.aspx?s=1
• 10-22 July 2011, Amsterdam, NL
Summer Institute on alcohol, drugs,
addiction of the Univ. of Amsterdam
www.graduateschoolofsocialsciences.uva.nl/sia/introduction.cfm
• 11-22 July 2011, Budapest, Hungary
Summer course on “Human Rights
and Drug Policy” org. by the Central
European University in Budapest
www.summer.ceu.hu/02-courses/
course-sites/drug/index-drug.php
Contributors:
Jose Del Val
Delegación del Gobierno
para el Plan Nacional
sobre Drogas, Portugal
Annual Conference
• 17-20 July 2011, Roma, Italy
6th IAS Conference on HIV pathogenesis, treatment and prevention org. by
IAS (International Aids Society)
www.ias2011.org/
• 27 July 2011, London, UK
Working within and between: couple
therapy and substance misuse, org.
by The British Psychological Society
www.nta.nhs.uk/bct-event-july.aspx
• 4-11 Sept. 2011, Barcelona, Spain
Primary care: Mental health issues
with a focus on drugs and behavior.
Mediterranean Cruise Conference
organised by Continuing Education
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• 4-11 Sept. 2011, Vienna, Austria
13th Congress of ESBRA (European
Society for Biomedical Research on
Alcoholism)
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• 6-10 Sept. 2011, Oslo, Norway
Addiction: science, politics, realities
ISAM annual meeting (International
Society of Addiction Medicine)
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• 12-16 Sept. 2011, Marseille, France
Université d'été sur l'édition électronique ouverte (Summer school on
open electronic edition), org. by Cleo
(Centre pour l'édition électronique
ouverte)
http://leo.hypotheses.org/5851
• 13-14 Sept. 2011, Mexico City, M
3rd Latin American conference and
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policy, org. by Intercambios &
CUPIHD (Colectivo por una política
integral hacia las drogas)
http://conferenciadrogas.com/2011/
• 15-16 Sept. 2011, Brussels, BE
2nd International Symposium on
Hepatitis care in substance users,
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Hepatitis in Substance Users (INHSU)
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• 17-21 Sept. 2011, San Diego, USA
National Conference on Addiction
Disorders, org. by NaADAC, NAATP,
INCASE AND NALGAP with the audience
of Addiction Professional and
Behavioral Healthcare magazines.
www.nationalconferenceonaddictiondisorders.com/
• 20-23 Sept. 2011, Oxford, UK
13th European Federation of Therapeutic Communities Conference
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• 23-26 oct. 2011, Trois-Rivières, CA
Prévenir et intervenir en dépendances : Interagir - 39e colloque de
l'Association des intervenants en toxicomanie du Québec
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• 2 Nov. 2011, London, UK
Rising to the challenge: DrugScope
conference
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• 6-9 Nov. 2011, Vancouver, Canada
Issues of substance 2011: Diversifying
our investments: capitalizing on
advances in health promotion, prevention and treatment - Canadian
Centre on Substance Abuse (Ccsa)
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• 8-11 Nov. 2011, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
24th IFNGO World Conference, organised by the International Federation
of NGOs for the prevention of drug
and substance abuse (IFNGO)
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• 3-4 October 2011, Prato, Italy
2011 Contemporary drug problems:
beyond the buzzword: Problematising
‘Drugs’ - National Drug Research
Institute, Curtin University, Australia
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2011/
• 17-18 nov. 2011, Nancy, France
Tabacologie sans frontières, Congrès
de la Société française de tabacologie
(SFT)
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• 5-8 oct. 2011, Barcelona, Spain
II International congress on dual
disorders: Addictive behaviors and
other mentals disorders. Org. by the
Society of Dual Disorders (SEPD)
www.patologiadual.es/cipd2011/en/
• 28-30 Nov. 2011, Bangkok, Thailand
Global Alcohol Policy Conference,
org. by Thai Ministry of Public Health,
the World Health Organization, the
Global Alcohol Policy Alliance and
the Thai Health Promotion Foundation
www.gapc2011.com/welcome.html
• 6-7 oct. 2011, Marseille, France
Ist European Harm Reduction
Meeting. Org. by EuroHRN
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• 11-14 oct. 2011, Biarritz, France
European & international congress
THS 10 (Addiction-Hepatitis-Aids)
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• 12-13 oct. 2011, Cardiff, UK
Tobacco and alcohol conference:
learning from each other, org. by
Alcohol Concern Cymru & ASH Wales
www.alcoholconcern.org.uk/events/
• 1-2 déc. 2011, Paris, France
L’alcool, la ville, la cité. Conférence de
la Société française d'Alcoologie (SFA)
www.sfalcoologie.asso.fr
• 5-7 Dec. 2011, Lisbon, Portugal
Global Addiction 2011 Conference.
Biennial conference organised by the
Global Addiction network
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European Society for Prevention
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