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Editorial

n° 27 June 2009 - 1
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It hardly seems any time since I wrote an editorial for our spring issue in
which I mentioned our Annual Meeting to be held in Budapest this
October. And before we know it, October will be upon us and I hope that
all of you are planning to come so we may enjoy the sights of Budapest
and to be together again to exchange news, learn new skills and update
our knowledge.
Therefore I encourage you to consider giving a presentation on how your
information centre or library contributes services that help those with
addictions whether on drugs, alcohol, gambling, the internet or any new
addictions that is emerging. Giving a presentation is rewarding and helpful
in one's career and can open the door to other opportunities. The deadline for submission is July 31st, 2009 and a draft programme is available
on the conference wiki: http://2009elisadmeeting.pbwiki.com2009.
We are also looking for ideas for workshops on information issues so
please send your suggestions to me at [email protected].
Finally please do consider attending the annual meeting as it is an excellent professional development opportunity and provides the opportunity
to meet colleagues from around Europe working in the same area.
The future of Elisad depends on its members so the Board are keen to
have your views to help us plan future activities. We have designed an
online survey which will only take a few minutes to complete and it can
be found at: http://surveys.polldaddy.com/s/09A9A295988D2856/.
I look forward to seeing you all in October,
Christine Goodair
Elisad Chair
Some pictures of my garden
in Spring. As you can see
I have some nice poppies:
normal when you are
working in the drug field
since 15 years!
The well is collecting rain
water for the plants...
Anne Singer
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Setting sail:
best practices for the next decade
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The theme was “Setting sail best practices for the next
decade” and was intended
to examine the use of social
networking technology by
information professionals,
current and historical context in
substance use, and explore the
concept of best practice. The
conference was attended by
over 30 participants, and
Europe was well represented
by Christine Goodair, Vaughan
Birbeck, Jorunn Moen and
Anne Welsh.
T
he first day was taken up by
presentations which gave an
insight into drug and alcohol
policies in Canada. First, the Chair
of SALIS, David Man, presented a
view of the work of SALIS which
takes place outside conferences. He
emphasised the importance of these
on-going activities and their role in
maintaining the relevance of SALIS
as a professional organisation.
The first outside speaker was
Carolyn Davison, Director of
Addictions Servi-ces for Nova
Scotia, who gave an overview of
the development of the new
National Treatment Strategy for
Canada. This includes a continuum
of services and supports based on a
tiered model representing different
levels of service ranging from 'open'
sources (e.g. web pages) to highlevel rehabilitation services.
Knowledge exchange and research
capacity is being developed to
ensure that evidence-informed practices are adopted.
This was followed by a presentation
on alcohol policies in Nova Scotia
by Greg Marquis (University of
New Brunswick). Nova Scotia has
an interesting history of prohibition
and government control of the sale
of alcohol and licensing of drinking
31stst Annual SALIS Conference
Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 5-9 2009
Vaughan Birbeck, EMCDDA & Christine Goodair, Elisad Chair
Boats in the Maritime Museum, Halifax. Funny: sails in plural is an anagram of SALIS!
premises, based on an assumption
that people could not be trusted
with unrestricted access to alcohol.
Public policy could therefore create
“better drinkers”.
The final presentation of the day
was based around the challenge of
developing prevention strategies
for Canada's “First Nations” native populations including
Indians and Inuit peoples. It was
given by Robert Denniston of the
White House Office of National
Drug Control Policy who informed
us about a campaign to prevent the
use of methamphetamines by native
Americans. Particular care was
given to making the messages of the
campaign culturally relevant, providing a sense of empowerment, and
using Native networks and channels
for dissemination, including youth,
adults and elders.
The first presentation of the second
day was The influence of research
on policy and practice, by Mark
Asbridge of Dalhousie University.
Superficially, policy adoption
should be a matter of identifying a
topic, then evaluating evidence on
the best way forward. In reality, of
course, the adoption of policy involves social and economic factors.
Research and “evidence” is often a
minor or secondary feature of the
process. Research was most likely
to inform policy when it was integrated into decision-making. Good
information products with articulate
findings were also necessary, as
well as a sense of context which
would engage policy-makers.
naire. We look forward to seeing the
results of the survey at future conferences.
We then had a presentation on setting up a user-survey by Jorunn
Moen. Jorunn explained the background to her work, then demonstrated the Questback system which
had been used to design the survey
questionnaire. SIRUS's public information role requires a complex,
interactive questionnaire which can
be used online to gather varied
levels of information. Questback
provides this, allowing the response
to one question to lead to the most
appropriate follow-up. Using a live
link to Questback, Jorunn illustrated
the journey various respondents
would make through the question-
Jorunn was followed by Anne
Welsh talking about “Web 2.0” for
AOD librarians. Anne looked at the
current state of the art in the drug
sector's use of Web 2.0 and suggested ways forward for the future. As
we know, Anne is a particular advocate of networks for sharing and
developing sources of knowledge
and information. The need for the
development of taxonomies and
search vocabularies for ensuring the
accurate indexing and accessibility
of information resources is a task
ideally suited to librarians and one
we should be actively pursuing.
Andrea Mitchell, Anne Welsh and Christine Goodair
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The afternoon of the second day
was taken up by a series of short
(15 minutes) presentations centred
on specific Web 2.0 technologies.
Julie Murphy of the Pacific Institute
for Research and Evaluation, for
example, was a strong advocate of
LinkedIn as a means of “building
your brand”. This may be true but
this approach - making detailed
summaries of careers and personal
interests available - in an era of
identity theft could be dangerous.
Other interesting contributions
included Dan Lawrence, Director
RMC Health Prevention Information
Center, Colorado, who described
putting illustrations of the teaching
aids available from his centre on
Flickr which led people to his other
information services.
Jessica Desmarais demonstrated a
mind-mapping software called
MindManager which shows the
relationships between concepts, ideas
and information sources. Finally, the
SALIS Membership and Outreach
Committee demonstrated the steps
they will be taking to develop SALIS's
cyber presence. Sheila Lacroix,
CAMH, Canada, gave a brief five
minute slot on how to set up a wiki
newsletter which demonstrated how
straight forward it is.
Above: Vaughan Birbeck,
Librarian at the EMCDDA.
Below: Bette Reimer, University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, and Christine
Goodair, ICDP, UK.
On the right side: The Board
meeting was held in an office
overlooking the harbour.
The final day was a varied programme of presentations, starting with
Christine Goodair discussing
evidence-based librarianship. The
evidence-based approach is accepted
in other professions (particularly
medicine) but can it be made applicable to information services? The
conclusion was that as we deal with
less tangible results from our work
(in medicine a treatment is either
effective or it isn't, or is effective in
different ways) it is difficult to transfer this approach to our discipline
(it is hard to evaluate the impact
providing a specific piece of information has on decision-making or
policy development, the effect could
be subconscious).
Christine's presentation was complemented by Bette Reimer from
the University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, who explored the concept
of knowledge management and how
librarians and information specialists
are crucial in knowledge exchange
activities.
Patrick Ellis of Dalhousie University
described the creation of a virtual
library of health information for
Canada. Issues such as accessibility,
gaps in collections, incoherent policy
making and uneven service delivery
all made the task fraught with problems. On April 15 this year a trial
began which made the Cochrane
Library available to all Canadians (by
identifying Canadian IP addresses)
for 9 months as “a proof of concept”.
We then had a disturbing presentation on ritual abuse and torture
(the type of situation that existed
with Josef Fritzl). The speakers said
that enforced alcohol and drug use
were a feature of these cases, and
were used by victims in later life as
a coping mechanism.
Geoffrey Hunt Senior Scientist,
Institute for Scientific Analysis,
Alameda, CA, gave a dual perspective on the use of drugs in the club
cultures of San Francisco and
Hong Kong. By refusing to concentrate on one particular culture, he
believes, researchers can gain a better understanding of the motivations
for, and the desired consequences
of, drug use by different groups of
young people.
Vaughan's presentation about his
work and role at the EMCDDA closed
the conference. He gave an interesting presentation describing his
approach to developing the role of
the information service at EMCDDA.
The new current awareness services
he has introduced were described.
In essence he was sharing how he is
building relationships with users
through setting standards, managing
expectations and establishing trust.
The presentation was well received
and generated several questions.
This was Vaughan's first SALIS
conference and Christine's sixth!
Clearly the content and relevance of
the presentations at this conference
(and previous ones) made it a memorable and profoundly interesting
experience and would recommend
attendance at future conferences.
The Board meeting
In addition to the Conference a
SALIS Board meeting was held which
was attended by both Christine and
Jorunn, and a business meeting for
all members was also held.
The Board meeting was held in an
office overlooking the harbour. The
meeting was taken up with similar
business to that of an Elisad Board
meeting.
Lively discussions took place about
the use of social networking by
SALIS as a means of communication
and marketing.
Andrea presented a report on SALIS
activities highlighting the success of
being able to join/renew one's membership online; the facility to purchase books via Amazon and
Hazelden producing income for
SALIS; Elisad's Conference wikis
were mentioned and it was suggested that SALIS should set up wikis
for future events.
Andrea also commented on the
value of Elisad's Journal recommending it as an excellent source of
bibliographic information.
This provided an opportunity to
promote our Annual Meeting in
October and hopefully encourage
people to attend.
Reports from the committees and
special interest groups were shared
at the business meeting and below
are some items of interest.
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Visiting the Legislative Library of Nova Scotia
International Networking
The International Networking
Committee promotes awareness of
SALIS worldwide and global networks for ATOD information
exchange. It aims to increase SALIS
membership globally, strengthen
international networking and foster
a global perspective within SALIS. It
also works to foster a strong relationship and support common goals
with Elisad.
Last year it produced a joint SALIS
Elisad business card template. This
aims to promote both Elisad and
SALIS together and can be used
when we attend international meetings. It reflects our joint cooperation and serves to promote both our
organizations. These were distributed at the following meetings: by
Sheila Lacroix at EAHIL, Helsinki,
2008; and by Andrea Mitchell who
took them to the ISAJE meeting in
September.
Meg Brunner, Information Specialist
Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute,
University of Washington is Chair
elect. Julie Murphy, Manager of
Library & Information Services,
Pacific Institute for Research and
Evaluation Prevention Research
Center is the new Chair of SALIS
senting SALIS; it assists members in
the use of new information technologies; supports resource sharing
and communication; and promotes
the design and application of new
technologies to further SALIS goals.
A new section listing conferences
has been set up.
Information Technology
The Advocacy Committee works to
promote matters of common interest
and other information issues of the
Alcohol and Other Drug Libraries
and Information Centers. It is currently promoting the need for digitization and preservation of alcohol
and other drug materials and literature currently owned by our member libraries
The Information Technology Committee advises on the SALIS website
and other electronic resources repre-
Julie Murphy, new Chair of SALIS
The Conference was held at the
National Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
so we were able to enjoy the art
during our breaks.
Nova Scotia is also well known for
its seafood and Ruth Hart the host
had organised a Lobster Dinner at
the Immigration Museum. We were
treated to a tour of the Research
Centre and learnt about the genea-
Governance
In 2008 the bylaws and constitution
were updated and adopted.
Elections for Secretary and Chair
elect took place - Christine Goodair
was elected as Secretary again and
The lobster dinner
2009 Salis Membership by Country Breakdown
as of April 2009
5
15
1
1
1
1
3
- Australia
- Canada
- Greece
- Israel
- Norway
- Sweden
- United Kingdom
1
1
1
1
1
1
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- Belgium
- Cayman Islands
- Ireland
- Italy
- Portugal
- Switzerland
- USA
10 Elisad members also belong to SALIS.
Next year's conference
will be held in
New York
from 27th to 30th April
logy resources available for those
whose families had immigrated to
Canada to tap into.
This was followed by a fascinating
and informative tour of the museum
by George Zweegstra, a Dutch émigré originally from Friesland, who
was able to tell us about his own
experiences of being an émigré. The
evening was round off to the sound
of us cracking into our lobster!
We also visited the Legislative
Library for the Government of Nova
Scotia. This was an interesting visit
where we learnt about the role that
librarians have in a political setting.
They provide information and
research services to the members of
the Nova Scotia Government in a
discrete, non-partisan way.
Finally we would like to thank Ruth
Hart and Sheila Lacroix for hosting
the conference and ensuring that we
had an informative and social few
days.
Christine Goodair
Vaughan Birbeck
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World drug campaign website
As part of its campaign to raise awareness about illicit drugs use, UNODC
launched, 22 May 2009, a dedicated
campaign website. It provides information on various drugs, and health
tips for parents, teachers and youth.
The site is available in English,
Spanish and French.
It also invites individuals, non-profit
organizations, the private sector and
Member States to get involved. Those
interested can join the campaign by,
for example, using the campaign slogan and logo in promotional products,
websites and social media.
Its visitors will also get a chance to
take a stand against drugs by joining a
Facebook group, adding their Drug
Day pictures to the UNODC Flickr collection or following actions on Twitter.
www.unodc.org/drugs.
New UNODC e-newsletter
UNODC has launched, 26 May 2009,
eNews@UNODC, a new electronic
newsletter to inform about the latest
news on UNODC and international
drugs and crime issues. This is the
latest addition to a growing collection
of information options that UNODC is
making available to its many audiences. The e-newsletter contains links to
news items and other current drugs
and crime information. Other links
include latest publications and upcoming events. Available in English at:
www.unodc.org/unodc/en/enewsunodc/index.html
European Action on Drugs
On the International Day against Drug
Abuse and Trafficking (26 June 2009),
the European Action on Drugs (EAD)
is to be launchd in Brussels at an
event, at which declarations will be
made by the Action's first signatories.
After this event, other organisations
will have the opportunity to sign up to
the European Action on Drugs. The
initiative is open to NGOs, representatives of national and local authorities,
state institutions, leisure and sports
associations, and companies such as
insurance and transport, as well as
individuals who wish to take practical
action in their own areas and to make
a direct contribution to the goals of
the European Action on Drugs.
Our 21st annual Elisad meeting
is hosted by ESKI
National Institute for Strategic Health Research
in Budapest, 8-10 October
The aim of EAD is to seek a European
response to a growing problem which
is no respecter of borders and to the
potentially devastating economic and
social consequences of drug abuse.
The EAD initiative is designed to provide European civil society with a
platform to increase awareness and
commitment as regards to drug abuse
and related risks, and to promote dialogue and exchanges of best practice.
It works around a simple idea: since a
huge number of people and organisations have a role to play in disseminating information and raising awareness
about the risks of drug abuse, particularly among young people, the European
Commission is proposing that anyone
who carries formal responsibility of
some kind, has decision-making powers
or acts in an economic, social or
representative capacity, should make a
commitment on a specific action that
he/she will undertake. It will be based
on the principle of "shared responsibility", a responsibility shared by all
members of society, i.e. ordinary people as well as professionals.
www.euactiondrugs2009.eu/docs.jsp
The theme of the meeting
Addictions in Society: what information services contribute
will explore issues to do with addictions and young people
and families, including behavioural addictions such as
gambling and the internet.
We will also discuss the contribution made by information and
documentation services to those with addictions.
We invite researchers, librarians and information specialists in
the addiction field to submit presentations on the theme. We
warmly encourage your active participation in this event,
be it with a formal presentation or a workshop.
Thanks to our members, Beatrix Kovacs and Maria Palotai for
having built a wiki on our meeting, accessible at :
http://2009elisadmeeting.pbwiki.com/
Its pages provides a call for papers form,
as well a registration form for attending the meeting.
Biblio-drogues:
A new database online
UNICRI’S new building in Turin
This new online database is putting
together the description of all the
documents available (books, articles,
prevention tools…) in the three main
documentation centres on addictions
working in the French-speaking
community of Belgium: Prospective
Jeunesse, Nadja and Infor-Drogues.
The two first are Elisad members.
The database covers illicit and licit
drugs of abuse, behavioural addictions
(gambling, Internet…), history, sociological, anthropological and economical data, legislation, prevention, treatment, harm reduction, and more...
www.biblio-drogues.be/index.php
End of May, UNICRI Italia (an Elisad
member) inaugurated the new Vieira
de Mello building - kindly offered by
the City of Turin and dedicated to
Sérgio Vieira de Mello and the other
21 victims of the Canal Hotel bombing
attack in Baghdad on 19 August 2003.
This building is now hosting the
UNICRI Documentation Centre on
crime prevention and criminal justice
which is one of the largest in the world.
Its Director, Sandro Calvani, opened
the inauguration. “Turin is the world
capital of UN Training. This documentation centre will be a milestone in
building knowledge, innovation and a
Please, do participate in the web survey on the future of Elisad!
A short web survey has been created by Daniela Zardo to involve all Elisad
members in the process of drafting a 3 year Action Plan for the association.
The survey is meant to collect members' opinions, ideas and points of view
on how Elisad can grow and develop a new vision in the 21st century and its
21st year of existence. The survey includes the three following questions:
• Please list the main issues that concern you, that you think Elisad should
address in the upcoming 3 year Action Plan.
• What developments or changes in the addiction information sector interest
or excite you?
• The third and last question regards the status of your institute/association.
The survey is totally anonymous and answering each question is mandatory.
The deadline is July 31st, 2009.
Your answers will help the Board take good decisions for our association.
The future of Elisad also depends on the commitment of all its members!
Link to the survey: http://surveys.polldaddy.com/s/09A9A295988D2856/
valuable resource for a future built on
human rights.”
This new centre will include more
than 18000 monographs, 1100 journals
and yearbooks, documents from the
UN system, and other international
and regional organisations, institutions
and NGOs, multimedia material, and
grey literature on crime prevention
and criminal justice issues.
Moreover, the Centre will be able to
provide an online access to all its services, such as the library catalogue,
the criminological thesaurus, bibliographic databases, directories, journals'
tables of contents, full-text articles,
abstracts of monographs and personalised alerts targeted to the needs of its
users.
www.unicri.it/news/0929_vieira/0929
_vieira.php
Pompidou Group new website
Graphical improvements, easy navigation, structured content, documents
and multimedia resources are making
the Pompidou Group website more
accessible, and has changed its image
to offer a better service to users.
This new website has as its objective
to be more ergonomic and more
attractive, it is hoped that it will also
be a useful work tool. It will constantly
be changed, new information will be
added regularly.
www.coe.int/T/dg3/pompidou/
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A new Elisad member :
The Glasgow
Addiction services
Christine Cather BA MSc MCLIP, Outreach Librarian
As Outreach Librarian for Glasgow Addiction Services (GAS), my role is to
provide a library service and a training programme for all staff in GAS throughout Greater Glasgow & Clyde areas in NHS Scotland.
The staff of the Glasgow Addiction Services is a combination of both NHS
and Council social care employees.
The objective of the Addiction Service Partnership is to provide a joined up
system of care for people with alcohol and drug problems and their families
in Glasgow.
The GAS website is under development at the moment, this is the present
URL: www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/Residents/Care_Support/Drugs_Alcohol/
Christine.Cather
The library resource has a small collection of 75 core texts held centrally in
the Claremont Centre HQ. This is also available for staff and students in our
NHS Mental Health and Partnership library, the Maria Henderson Library in
the Gartnavel Royal Hospital. They provide our access to print journals, inter
library loans, library training, and other services. URL:
www.nhsggc.org.uk/content/default.asp?page=home_LibraryServices
Our core online search resource is the NHS Scotland e-library:
www.elib.scot.nhs.uk
My personal interest in bibliotherapy has led me to become involved in an
innovation for promoting reading for pleasure to service users. This is in the
early stages of being delivered. Background information can be found here:
http://reachingout.thereader.org.uk/get-into-reading.html
The idea is that shared reading groups can improve wellbeing, build community, and extend reading pleasure.
A Current Awareness service and Literature Search service are proving popular
with the staff and I look forward to improving the online access to resources.
Contact details
Postal address:
Glasgow Addiction Services
Unit 10-12 -Claremont Centre
39 Durham Street
Glasgow - G41 1BS
Tel : 0141 276 6668
Contact for Elisad:
Christine Cather
[email protected]
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Transnational organized crime
In this book former police officer
Frank Madsen provides a short introduction to transnational organized
crime, explaining its history, the key
current issues and examining the economics and practices of crime in the
era of globalization. Key issues discussed include: The war on drugs; Antimoney laundering efforts; The relationship between organized crime and
terrorism; Development of Internet
based criminal activity; International
response to organized crime. With case
studies from around the world.
Frank Madsen - Routledge, May 2009,
144p - ISBN: 978-0415464994
www.routledgelaw.com/
The politics of cocaine. How
U.S. foreign policy has created
a thriving drug industry in
Central and South America
Drawing on declassified documents
and painstaking research, the book
contends that by conflating anti-communist and counternarcotics policies,
the US helped establish and strengthen
the drug industry that thrives in Central
and South America. Increased militarisation, destabilisation of governments,
uncontrollable drug trafficking, violence
and death resulted. The book explores
how the counternarcotics policies of
the 1970s collapsed during the 1980s
when the War on drugs became part of
Reagan's struggle with Nicaragua and
Cuba. The US invasion of Panama further militarised the conflict against
narco-traffickers. Finally, it explains
why the US remains unable to control
the flow of cocaine into the country.
The book fills in historical gaps and
provides a controversial analysis of a
seemingly unsolvable problem.
William L. Marcy - Lawrence Hill, Feb.
2010, 336p - ISBN: 978-1556529498
www.chicagoreviewpress.com/
The Infiltrator. My secret life
inside the dirty banks behind
Pablo Escobar's Medellín Cartel
Federal Agent, the author spent five
years undercover as a money launderer
to the international underworld, gaining access to the zenith of a criminal
hierarchy safeguarded by a circle of
dirty bankers and businessmen who
control drug-trafficking empires, running their organisations like public
companies. Accountants, attorneys,
and financial advisors, their roots run
deep in their communities, and they
are laundering billions of dollars a
year, manipulating complex international finance systems to serve drug lords,
corrupt politicians, tax cheats, and terrorists. In 1987, the author began infiltrating bankers behind the Medellín
cartel. He meticulously gathered evidence for years until, during a fake
wedding, federal agents arrested over
40 high-ranking criminals, who were
found guilty and sent to prison.
Robert Mazur - Arcade Pub., July
2009, 312 p - ISBN: 978-1559709033
www.arcadepub.com/
Merchants of madness: The
methamphetamine explosion
in the Golden Triangle
For decades, the Golden Triangle has
been infamous for its opium and
heroin production. But in the 1990s,
the drug gangs began to produce
methamphetamine. The drug has
become known as ya ba in Thailand
(madness medicine). The drug makes
users hyperactive and often aggressive,
breaking them down mentally as well
as physically. It has led to murders,
and the kidnappings of innocent people. Who are the merchants of this
madness? The authors' answer is based
on two decades of research including
first-hand accounts of the drug trade
from law enforcement officers, intelli-
gence officials, and sources close to
the drug traffickers. The book reveals
how the Golden Triangle drug trade
has grown to become a multi-billion
dollar criminal enterprise.
Bertil Lintner & Michael Black - Univ.
of Washington Press/Silkworm Books,
March 2009, 176p - ISBN: 9789749511596
www.washington.edu/
Tac: Young people, gender and
neighbourhood drug markets
This book explores the relationship of
young people to the local drug market
from a gendered perspective and illustrate how their drug behaviours should
be understood in both localised and
gendered terms. It draws on a twoyear ethnographic study of children
and young people growing up in a
small housing estate located on the
edge of a large Northern City in
England. This book provides a critical
examination of the popular image of
the contemporary British housing
estate by exploring the political economy of drug dealing and crime at the
local level. It focuses on the nature of
boys' and girls' engagement with the
local drug market and describes and
analyses the gendered nature of their
drug taking practices and rituals.
Kate O'Brien - Willan Publishing, Dec
2009, 256p - ISBN: 978-1843922063
www.willanpublishing.co.uk/
Putting out the fire:
Smoking and the law
Everyone knows that tobacco is a heavily regulated industry. But it hasn't
always been that way. The road to
regulation has been a long one, with
twists and turns that are on the level of
the best Hollywood blockbuster. This
book tells the story of the many
attempts - those that failed and those
that succeeded - to regulate the
tobacco industry. It describes the reasons behind regulation, the industry's
attempts to keep their findings secret
and how they tried to 'spin' negative
research findings into either positive,
or at least less damaging, reports, and
examines the government's complex
relationship to tobacco and the government role and how it has affected
tobacco regulation.
Joan Esherick - Mason Crest, June
2009, 112p - ISBN: 978-14222-02340
www.masoncrest.com/
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Forensic chemistry of substance
misuse. A guide to drug control
This book builds on an earlier publication: The misuse of drugs act: A guide
for forensic scientists. Its content has
been fully updated and the scope has
been expanded. It provides a chemical
background to the international legal
controls on drugs of abuse and includes coverage of designer drugs and
generic/analogue controls from the UK,
US and New Zealand perspectives.
More general chapters cover the recent
history of the drug classification debate
and a proposal for consolidating a wide
range of legal controls on chemical
substances. An account is provided of
the Early Warning System on New
Psychoactive Substances in operation
in the EU. With 20 appendices, a glossary and a bibliography.
Leslie A. King - Royal Society of
Chemistry, 2009, 270p. - ISBN: 9780854041787 - www.rsc.org/
Forensic social work.
Psychosocial and legal issues in
diverse practice settings
This book focuses on social work
practice that intersects with the legal
system. An emphasis is placed on the
knowledge and skills of collaboration
that is needed across the field of practice. A conceptual model, entitled the
Social Justice Systems perspective,
places an emphasis on the two approach
to practice: to increase well-being and
social functioning, and to improve
social justice outcomes. All social
work fields are implicated: social services, education, child welfare, mental
health and substance abuse, juvenile
and criminal justice, and immigration.
This book takes a generalist approach
to forensic social work that moves
beyond a narrow definition that involves only victims and offenders in the
juvenile and criminal justice system.
Tina Maschi, Carolyn Bradley, Kelly
Ward - Springer, July 2009, 392p ISBN: 978-0826118578
www.springerpub.com/
Night clubbing.
Drugs, clubs and regulation
The book opens up the world of the
night-time economy in modern urban
Britain, exploring the workings of a
criminal door firm working in a large
night club. The mechanics of the
drugs trade within nightclubs are described from the perspective of key
actors, and new light is shed on the
way users of these clubs perceive and
justify their often risk leisure choices.
The book seeks to rework our understanding of the night-time economy
and the role drugs play within it.
Instead of characterising these trends
as uniformly negative, it argues that
this dance drug subculture presents a
risky, but less violent alternative to the
mainstream. It explores the strategies
of regulation taken towards these
developments and the problems associated with other current approaches.
Daniel Silverstone - Willan Pub., Nov
2009, 240 p - ISBN: 978-1843922094
www.willanpublishing.co.uk/
Techno. Voyage au cœur des
nouvelles communautés festives
Techno. In the heart of the new
festive communities
Jeunes de moins de 30 ans, musiques
syncopées, treillis, ecstasy, LSD, teknivals, fêtes illégales, camions, baffles,
contestations silencieuses et affrontements souvent feutrés, parfois ouverts
avec les pouvoirs publics : bienvenue
dans le monde très codé des tribus
techno. Qui sont ces « organisés en
communautés », ainsi qu'ils se nomment, majoritairement issus des classes
moyennes et supérieures, qui vivent
pour un idéal, « faire la teuf » et accéder à la transe collective, rythmée par
les pulsations électroniques et les
mouvements de la danse ? Pourquoi, à
l'heure de la mondialisation, un tel
modèle de vie à la fois communautaire
et semi-nomade ? C'est en sociologue
que l'auteur a suivi ces « teuffeurs », a
observé leurs rites et partagé leur quotidien. Une enquête édifiante qui aide
à décrypter le nouveau sens de la
« fête » et la recherche d'un sens
essentiel, fondé sur l'économie du don.
Une plongée dans la culture techno
qui, en se racontant ici comme jamais,
raconte la culture contemporaine.
Lionel Pourtau - CNRS Éd., janvier
2009, 200 p - ISBN: 978-2271067326
www.cnrseditions.fr/
Two worlds of drug consumption in late modern societies
This book reports on the findings of
an empirical study on the situation of
drug users and their consumption patterns for the five most common illegal
drugs: heroin, cocaine, amphetamines,
ecstasy and cannabis. The research is
based on a new survey instrument
developed for the UN Office for
Drugs and Crime (UNODC). A state-ofthe art review from additional sources
complements this comparison of the
drug situation in six European cities London, Amsterdam, Turin, Prague,
Vienna and Warsaw - which represent
a wide range of drug problems and
public policies. Per capita consumption
and prices were assessed by face-toface interviews with 100 frequent
consumers of heroin, cocaine and
amphetamines per city and 100 occasional consumers of cannabis, ecstasy,
amphetamines and cocaine (socially
integrated drug users), including questions on the the drug combinations
consumed, on the mode of consumption and on expenditures.
Irmgard Eisenbach-Stangl, Jacek
Mos-kalewicz, Betsy Thom - Asghate,
June 2009, 298p - ISBN: 9780754677758
www.ashgate.com/
Men and addictions:
New research
Various studies have found that a
majority of men over 12 years of age
(82.6%) had used alcohol at least once
in their lifetime. The data indicate that
9% of men reported heavy alcohol use
compared to 2% of women. Approximately 34% of the samples reported
using illicit drugs. Studies also indicate that drug use patterns vary significantly by racial and ethnic groups.
Men are more than twice as likely to
develop substance use disorders as
women. Men begin using substances
earlier than women and have more
opportunity to try drugs. Men suffer
far more adverse consequences of
substance abuse than women. Clearly,
the social construction of masculinity
plays a significant role in these statistics. Men's attitudes toward alcohol
and drugs tend to be less negative than
women's attitudes.
Lyman J. Katlin - Nova Science Pub,
June 2009 - ISBN: 978-1606920985
www.novapublishers.com/
Cont_xts? Media,
representation and society
Papers from a conference organised at
the University of Chester, November
2006. The papers discuss the complex
relationships between mediation,
representation and public attitudes on
social issues such as domestic violence,
drug use, racism, stigma and surveillance.
Meriel d'Artrey et al. - Chester Academic Press, Dec. 2008, 203 p. - ISBN:
978-1905929689
www.chester.ac.uk/academicpress/
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Addiction. A disorder of choice
In this book sure to inspire controversy,
The author argues that conventional
wisdom about addiction - that it is a
disease, a compulsion beyond conscious
control - is wrong. Drawing on epidemiology, addicts' autobiographies,
treatment studies, and advances in
behavioral economics, he makes a
powerful case that addiction is voluntary. He shows that drug use, like all
choices, is influenced by preferences
and goals. Addiction is the psychiatric
disorder with the highest rate of recovery. But what ends an addiction? At
the heart of his analysis is a startling
view of choice and motivation that
applies to all choices, not just the
choice to use drugs. The conditions
that promote quitting a drug addiction
include information, cultural values,
and the costs and benefits of further
drug use. This analysis of well-established but frequently ignored research
leads to unexpected insights into how
we make choices, all rooted in our
deep-seated tendency to consume too
much. As wealth increases and technology advances, the dilemma posed by
addictive drugs spreads to new products.
However, this radical book points to a
solution. If drug addicts beat addiction,
then non-addicts can learn to control
their tendency to take too much.
Gene M. Heyman - Harvard Univ Press,
June 2009, 216p - ISBN: 9780674032989
www.hup.harvard.edu/
Substance abuse and emotion
There is a recurring debate over the
causes of substance abuse that divides
along two common assumptions: people either abuse drugs and alcohol out
of sheer pleasure-seeking drives run
amok or to escape aversive states of
comorbid anxiety or depression. This
book goes beyond this dichotomy in
its exploration of recent observations,
research and theory construction, to
advance working models for a new
paradigm on substance abuse and
comorbidity. Notably, the relationship
between drugs and emotion is emerging as paramount in understanding
drug abuse etiology, maintenance, and
relapse. Part I examines various perspectives on the relationship between
substance abuse and emotion, such as
craving and positive/negative reinforcement; cognitive theories; relapse;
and developmental and sociobiological
perspectives. Part II explores new
assessment methodologies, such as
"ecological momentary assessment"
and the linkage between affect and
cognitive deficits among drug users. It
concludes with a research agenda to
expand this new paradigm in understanding and treating substance abuse.
Jon D. Kassel - American Psychological Association (APA), Aug 2009, 312p
- ISBN: 978-1433805349
http://books.apa.org/
Alcohol, other drugs, and
behavior. Psychological
research perspectives
Providing a psychological perspective
on the use and abuse of alcohol and
other psychoactive drugs, this second
edition includes more coverage on the
theories of why alcohol and other
drugs are used, as well as conceptual
issues related to the nature of addiction.
Research on smoking, caffeine, and
simultaneous multiple drug use, including combinations with antidepressant
drugs and nonmedical use of prescription drugs is also covered.
John Jung - Sage, Aug. 2009, 616 p ISBN: 978-1412967648
www.uk.sagepub.com
Methamphetamine addiction.
Biological foundations, psychological factors, and social
consequences
Covers: Socio-historical contexts and
epidemiological patterns; the chemistry and biology of methamphetamine
use; illegal production of methamphetamine in the US; biopsychosocial
consequences of methamphetamine
addiction; methamphetamine, sex, and
sexual risk taking; motivations and
antecedents of methamphetamine use;
treatment considerations for methamphetamine addiction; prevention
efforts to address methamphetamine;
working with the methamphetamine
addicted client in medical settings;
working with addicted client in mental
health settings; future directions for
research and practice.
Perry N. Halkitis et al. - American
Psychological Association, April 2009,
264p - ISBN: 978-1433804236
Addiction à la cocaïne
L'augmentation de la consommation
de cocaïne depuis le début des années
2000 en France et dans bon nombre de
pays européens est l'un des défis
majeurs de santé publique pour les
années à venir. Outre son caractère
illégal, l'usage de cocaïne s'accompagne de risques pour la santé et pour le
comportement loin d'être anodins. Sa
diffusion rapide dans différentes couches de la société se traduit par la survenue de dommages sociaux portant
atteinte tant à autrui qu'à la collectivité.
L'ouvrage rassemble les données
scientifiques les plus actuelles sur
cette addiction : causes, effets, complications psychiatriques, somatiques
et sociales qu'elle entraine, modalités
de sevrage et de prise en charge.
Laurent Karila & Michel Reynaud Flammarion Médecine-Sciences, mars
2009, 128 p. - ISBN: 2257000675
http://medecine.flammarion.com/
Addiction au cannabis
La France est le premier pays consommateur de cannabis en Europe : sa
consommation a doublé entre 1990 et
2000. On estime que plus de 50 % des
jeunes de 18 ans ont expérimenté ce
produit et qu'environ 25% sont des
fumeurs réguliers. D'où l'augmentation
des complications liées à son usage et
une prise en charge plus adaptée de
ses dommages. L'accent est mis sur
l'aspect passionnel de cette addiction,
le cannabis venant cristalliser des
représentations contradictoires : d'une
part, la fête, la liberté, la jeunesse, de
l'autre l'insécurité, la toxicomanie, la
délinquance. Il apparaît nécessaire de
faire un point aussi argumenté que
possible sur les dommages du cannabis, les moyens de repérage et d'évaluation, les possibilités de traitement
mais aussi sur les modalités sociales
de consommation. C'est là l'objet de
cet ouvrage qui rassemble les données
scientifiques les plus récentes et les
pratiques cliniques les plus validées.
Michel Reynaud & Amine Benyamina
- Flammarion Médecine-Sciences,
mars 2009, 160p - ISBN: 2257000774
http://medecine.flammarion.com/
The Praeger international
collection on addictions
In these four volumes, experts from
around the world present the newest
research, and insights into addictions
of all kinds. Topics range from drug
addiction among male, female, teen
and aging populations, and among
various cultural groups, to behavioral
addictions including gambling, excessive buying, and eating disorders. They
also address issues including addiction
as a public health problem and the
drug treatment policies and methods.
Angela Browne Miller - Praeger, April
2009, 1700p - ISBN: 978-0275996055
www.greenwood.com/
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College drinking.
Reframing a social problem
This book examines college drinking
as an important social problem within
higher education, based on interviews
with many leading figures addressing
the issue. It explains how high-risk
drinking is defined, and assesses the
evidence about how many students are
binge drinkers and the behavioral and
health problems they have as a consequence. It also looks at the causes of
binge drinking. The complex links to
campus crime and sexual assault are
discussed as well as key questions
about effective prevention programmes
and countermeasures. With recommendations on what can be done about it.
George W. Dowdall - Praeger, Jan.
2009. 288p - ISBN: 978-0275999810
www.greenwood.com/
I giovani e l'alcol.
Il fenomeno del binge drinking
Young people and alcohol: the binge
drinking phenomenon
Binge drinking is the English term
used to define the behaviour of somebody who drinks until he/she gets
intoxicated or drunk. In dealing with
this increasingly common phenomenon,
the volume adopts a perspective of
developmental psychology and interpretation of the concept of risk.
Statistic data are provided, as well as
comparison between the Italian situation and that of other countries. Wide
space is given to risky contexts and
possible targeted interventions that
take into account the more or less
serious young people's situations.
Roberto Baiocco, Maria D'Alessio &
Fiorenzo Laghi - Carocci, 2008, 189p ISBN: 978-8874665396
www.carocci.it/
The multiplicities of Internet
addiction: The misrecognition
of leisure and learning
Overuse of the internet is often characterized as problematic, disruptive,
or addictive, with stories frequently
claiming that online use interferes
with relationships, or that 'excessive'
time in front of computer screens is
unhealthy. The book contests the
claim that computers - specifically
Internet use - are addictive, arguing
that use of the Internet is now a form
of everyday leisure engaged in by
many people in Western society.
Offering an analysis of the nature of
addiction alongside a detailed empirical study of home computer use, this
book will be of interest not only to
sociologists, but also to scholars of
media, ICT and education.
Nicola F. Johnson - Ashgate, Feb. 2009,
166p - ISBN: 978-0754674962
www.ashgate.com/
Craving for ecstasy and natural
highs. A positive approach to
mood alteration
People from all walks of life often lose
themselves in pursuing counterfeit
pleasures: cigarettes, alcohol, drugs,
thrill seeking, sex, food, gambling and
online fantasies to name just a few.
How does the pursuit of pleasure result
in compulsion and loss of control?
This book addresses this fundamental
question and then explores positive
ways to achieve lasting happiness and
fulfillment. It provides an insight on
how to improve the quality of life and
on how to offer support to clients, students, family, and friends whose lives
may be compromised by hedonic
dependencies.
Harvey B. Milkman & Stanley G.
Sunderwirth - Sage, June 2009, 496p ISBN: 978-1412956734
www.sagepub.com/
Absinthe & flamethrowers.
Projects and ruminations on
the art of living dangerously
Want to add more excitement to your
life? This book will show you how.
Written for smart risk takers, it explores why danger is good for you and
details the art of living dangerously.
Risk takers are more successful, more
interesting individuals who lead more
fulfilling lives. Unlike watching an
action movie or playing a video game,
real-life experience changes a person,
and the book will help you discover
the true thrill of making black powder
along with other edgy activities. All of
the projects - from throwing knives,
drinking absinthe, and eating fugu to
learning bartitsu and building a flamethrower - have short learning curves,
are hands-on and affordable, and
demonstrate true but reasonable risk.
William Gurstelle - Chicago Review
Press, June 2009, 224p - ISBN: 9781556528224
www.chicagoreviewpress.com/
Divertiti! Imperativo presente.
Psicoanalisi, abuso di sostanze
e ”discorso del capitalista”
Enjoy yourself! Psychoanalysis, drug
abuse and the “capitalist's discourse”
The imperative guiding civilization's
hypermodern programme is an imperative of pleasure. Starting from this
theoretical assumption, the book
investigates one of the most widespread forms of present-day enjoyment:
the one connected with substance
abuse. A new form of slavery seems to
emerge, that no longer has the same
characheristics as in the past. As Pier
Paolo Pasolini mentioned, in modern
times power no longer requires submissive subjects, but active consumers.
In revealing the mere essence of
consumption, the people abusing psychoactive substances isolate themselves
in their enjoyment - as artists typically
do - and move away from the circle of
symbolic exchanges with other people.
Francesco Giglio - Franco Angeli,
2009, 160p - ISBN: 978-8856803600
www.francoangeli.it/
Adolescent health:
Understanding and preventing
risk behaviors
Drawing on experts in the field, this
book provides a survey and assessment of adolescent health risk behaviors, such as smoking, violence, teen
pregnancy, AIDS, and other problems.
Also described are trends and changes
in risk behaviors over time; important
theoretical models for developing
interventions; prevention strategies for
each risk behavior; and effective treatment modalities.
Ralph J. DiClemente, John S. Santelli,
Richard A. Crosby - Jossey Bass, June
2009, 608 p - ISBN: 978-0470176764
www.josseybass.com/
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Come faccio a sapere se mio
figlio si droga? Manualetto per
genitori preoccupati
How do I know if child is taking
drugs? A guide for worrying parents
The book addresses parents of teenagers,
often worried because they are afraid,
or already know, that their child is
taking drugs. Tests are very fashionable
nowadays. But what is the price of
arriving at that stage where you depend
on that type of instruments to find out
if a youth takes drugs? In this situation
the relationship with the child is most
at stake, at least initially. How could
mutual trust be recovered after it was
certainly damaged by the imposition
of a test meant to “discover the truth”
about a youth who lies to his parents?
Reading these pages will help fathers
and mothers to consider the problem
with more equanimity and tackle it with
better awareness and effectiveness.
Solution-focused substance
abuse treatment
The book describes the standard of
care for substance abuse treatment,
demonstrates how solution-focused
brief therapy exceeds this standard,
and shows how it can effectively be
used in substance abuse evaluation,
case management, and both individual
and group treatment. Beginning and
advanced concepts are provided to
address the questions of even the most
advanced clinician, all placed in the
context of cultural awareness. Most
importantly, the author answers the
many questions professionals may
have about how solution-focused brief
therapy can be successfully integrated
into the field of substance abuse. It
provides a thorough understanding of
the issues that therapists face when
working with this at times challenging
population, and demonstrates how the
use of solution-focused brief therapy
can minimize power struggles and
enhance client success. Sample forms
and handouts are included, as are
additional resources for effective evaluation and treatment.
Teri Pichot, Sara A. Smock Routledge, March 2009, 254p - ISBN:
978-0789037237
www.addictionarena.com/
Pharmacology and treatment of
substance abuse. Evidence and
outcome based perspectives
Given the prevalence of substance
abuse in general clinical populations,
it is important for healthcare providers
to have knowledge in the treatment of
these problems. Evidence-based practice involves the integration of the
best evidence with clinical expertise
and patient values. This text is designed as a bridge for practitioners that
will provide up-to-date evidence
reviews as well as information on how
to best keep up with emerging trends
in the field.
Social work with
drug and substance misusers
This student text covers all aspects of
working with drug and substance
misusers, including the history and
changes in policy on substance misuse
and the differences between working
with young and adult clients. Recent
government initiatives and legislative
changes are carefully outlined, while
discussions on why people take drugs,
the policy implications of harm reduction and abstinence approaches to
substance use/misuse are related back
to practice so that readers understand
how to engage with the client group
and the reasons for varying success
across treatment approaches.
Anthony Goodman - Learning
Matters, 2nd ed., Sept 2009, 176p ISBN: 978-1844452620
www.learningmatters.co.uk/
Lavorare con tossicodipendenti.
Complessità, sfide e rimozione
sociale
Working with drug addicts. Complexity, challenges and social removal
Collection of review articles highlighting the top science and recent developments in the field of addiction.
This book consolidates current information on the dopamine transporter
(DAT) in relation to medicinal chemistry and synthesis, biology, pathology,
and pharmacology. Because of DAT's
role in diseases such as Parkinson's,
schizophrenia, attention deficit, hyperactivity, Tourette syndrome, and drug
abuse (in particular, cocaine addiction),
DAT research is an exploding field.
Tremendous advances have been made
toward understanding how it impacts a
variety of neurological disease states
and disorders.
By adopting a technical-methodological
approach in a multi-perspective analysis of the operators' professional experience, this volume aims at providing
those working in the field, as well as
policy-makers, with suitable guidance
in implementing urgent policies for
the qualification and development of
the sector. In particular, the findings
on the perception of work conditions
on personal satisfaction and the level
of psycho-physical stress - always
referred to specific subjective and
organisational situations - emphasize
the “human factor” as the essential
and strategic element to focus on
when considering the quality of the
offers made also in this specific sector.
This means promoting practice and
tools enhancing self-esteem and inherent satisfaction, a feeling of “success”
and effectiveness of the work done.
These appear to be the most relevant
expressions of a helping profession
whose risk of decline seriously questions the Services' capacity to respond
to the evident recrudescence of the
pathological use of legal/illegal substances among the young population.
George R. Uhl - Wiley (Annals of the
New York Academy of Sciences), Dec.
2008, 400p - ISBN: 978-1573317276
http://eu.wiley.com/
Mark L. Trudell & Sari Izenwasser Wiley, Aug 2009, 444p - ISBN: 9780470117903
Maurizio Coletti & Francesco Gaudio
- Franco Angeli, 2009, 192p - ISBN:
978-8856803860
Maurizio Coletti - Antigone, 2008,
90p - ISBN: 978-8895283180
www.bonadonnalibri.it/
Malati di droga
Affected by drugs
From a medical point of view, drug
addicts are patients who must be treated, but the attraction towards drugs
can be noticed in everybody's life, in
the need to overcome distress, both
physical and mental, or to rise above
other people and win their consideration, or to escape from the boredom of
everyday life. Hence the need to
understand, know, distinguish among
the different substances and their
effects, clear up the real meaning of
words often misused.
Bruno Silvestrini - RED, Jan. 2009,
160 p - ISBN: 978-8874479672
http://libreriarizzoli.corriere.it/
Addiction reviews 2008
Lee M Cohen, Frank L Collins Jr,
Alice Young, Dennis E McChargue,
Thad R Leffingwell, Katrina L Cook Routledge, June 2009, 710p - ISBN:
978-0805859690
Dopamine transporters:
Chemistry, biology, and pharmacology
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Understanding and treating
addictions
Psychological approaches are commonly used to treat addictive disorders
in conjunction with, or separate from,
other therapeutic paradigms. This
book focuses on psychological assessments and interventions. There is particular emphasis on evidence-based
treatments and practical strategies.
Case studies will be used throughout
to illustrate different approaches.The
book will enable readers to select the
most suitable assessments and interventions for their clients.
Alex Copello - WileyBlackwell, Sept.
2009, 256p - ISBN: 978-1405124171
Substance abuse treatment
for youth and adults
Addressing substance abuse treatment
for youths and adults, this volume
helps busy practitioners by providing
the "how-to" and "what now" rather
than using the academic approach.
Each chapter follows a consistent
structure including an introduction; a
detailed step-by-step guide to the
intervention; indicators and contraindicators; cases; and additional
resources, making the book an essential resource for practitioners in social
work, counseling, psychology, and
students-in-training.
David W. Springer & Allen Rubin John Wiley & Sons, Aug. 2009, 432 p
- ISBN: 978-0470244531
Interventions
for amphetamine misuse
A practical guide for health professionals working in the field. It details the
physical and psychological problems
associated with the drug's abuse, provides an evidence-based assessment of
the interventions currently in use
worldwide, and offers an historical
and cultural overview. It includes
detailed case studies to illustrate the
experiences of a wide range of countries
including the UK, Japan, Australia,
Thailand, and the USA with the aim of
drawing together the evidence and
reaching a consensus.
Richard Pates & Diane Riley - WileyBlackwell, Oct 2009, 256p - ISBN:
978-1405175586
Living with co-occurring addiction and mental health disorders:
A handbook for recovery
Drug abuse and addiction in
medical illness: Causes, consequences, and treatment
Written by internationally recognized
pioneers in the field, this handbook is
designed to inform and empower the
more than 10 million people in the US
with dual disorders, allowing each one
to make decisions about his own treatment and sculpt a program that treats
both disorders together. Key topics
include: getting an assessment; balancing the brain's chemistry; finding the
ideal treatment; choosing and working
with a therapist; setting achievable
goals and making positive changes
within cognitive-behavioral therapy.
The book contains 62 chapters covering
drugs of abuse and the role they play
in a wide range of medical illnesses. It
discusses how, for some diseases, drug
use will cause or enhance the progress
of that disorder, while other diseases
may result in or enhance drug abuse.
The chapters deal with this crucial, bidirectional relationship. With contributions of experts, the content cover virtually every core, as well as contemporary, topic in the subject area, from
the established theories to the most
modern research in the field.
Scott Edelstein & Mark McGovern Hazelden, Nov. 2009, 240p. - ISBN:
978-1592857197
www.hazelden.org/
Joris C. Verster, Kathleen Brady, Marc
Galanter & Patricia J. Conrod Humana Press, Oct 2009, 750p - ISBN:
978-1603275156
www.springer.com/humana+press/
Addiction treatment
homework planner
This 4th revised edition features: Homework assignments reflecting clients'
stages of readiness and change.- New
appendices with exercises based on
the ASAM criteria.- 88 exercises covering the most common issues encountered by addicts, such as anxiety, impulsivity, childhood trauma, dependent
traits, and occupational problems.- A
quick-reference format: the interactive
assignments are grouped by behavioral
problems including alcoholism, nicotine dependence, and substance abuse,
as well as other addictions such as
problem gambling, eating disorders,
sexual addictions.- Guidance on how
and when to make the most efficient
use of the exercises. With a Cd-rom
containing all the exercises.
James R Finley, Brenda S Lenz - Wiley,
Aug 2009, 384p - ISBN: 9780470402740
Treating substance use disorders
with adaptive continuing care
More than 10% of the US population
meets DSM-IV criteria for substance
use disorders. Although effective
interventions have been identified for
substance abuse, a significant percentage of patients respond poorly to them.
This variability in patient response
highlights the need for adaptive models
of care - that is, tailored interventions
based on treatment algorithms that
specify treatment modifications triggered by the patient's initial response
and changes in symptoms. In addition,
because relapse is common, interventions should extend beyond the acute
phase of care and address functioning
over time. Continuing care solidifies
and sustains recovery by helping the
patient maintain recovery-oriented
behaviors and sources of support. This
book provides a review of the latest
research on standard approaches to continuing care and new adaptive models.
James R. McKay - American Psychological Association, June 2009, 264p ISBN: 978-1433804595
SerT e medici di medicina
generale nella cura dei pazienti
eroinomani
Addiction services and general
practitioners in the treatment of
heroin addicts
Starting from the description of a
cooperation project between Ser.T.
Pescara and the general practitioners
in the same province, the volume describes and analyses methods and instruments available to the operators,
such as: the relationship between
heroin addicts and those who look
after them, the usefulness of psychological support and the involvement of
the families, the central role of talks
and the introduction and diffusion of
pharmacological treatments across the
district. After a historical-cultural
summary on opium-derived substances and a description of the correct
use of methadone, the book reproposes the considerations of the operators
who collaborated in the project as well
as those the patients made on their
condition and the treatment received.
Nadia Della Torre - Franco Angeli,
2009, 114p - ISBN: 978-8856805895
Lust auf Abstinenz
Ein Therapie-manual bei Alkohol-,
Medikamenten- und Drogenabhängigkeit
Abstinence desire. A therapy manual
for alcohol and drug dependance
Aufgabenmaterialien und Infos rund
um die Psychotherapie substanzgebundener Abhängigkeitserkrankungen.
Die in diesem Arbeitsbuch zusammengestellten Arbeitsmaterialien strukturieren von Beginn bis Ende den Behandlungsablauf, stellen ein Gesamtkonzept
dar und finden in Einzel- und Gruppenverfahren Anwendung. So können Sie
sowohl Ihre Einzelsitzungen als auch
die Gruppentherapien sinnvoll vorbereiten und bekommen gleichzeitig
Materialien an die Hand, die Sie Ihren
Patienten weitergeben können.
Meinolf Bachmann, Andrada El-Akhras
- Springer, May 2009, 180 S - ISBN:
978-3540892250
www.springer.com/
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Responding to drug misuse.
Research and policy priorities
in health and social care
Reporting findings from research
linked to the British's drugs strategy
Tackling drugs to build a better Britain,
the book places these in the context of
policy, practice, and service development. It goes on to discuss the implications of these findings for the new
strategy Drugs: Protecting families
and communities. The book looks at
current debates on drug strategies and
social policy and consider the relevance of the findings for policy and
practice. Topics discussed include:
recent trends in drug policy and how
these link to crime; responses of dedicated drug treatment services; service
users' perceptions and suggestions for
improvement the impact of drug misuse
on children, families and communities.
Susanne MacGregor - Routledge, March
2010, 248p - ISBN: 978-0415474702
Sexual health
in drug and alcohol treatment
While great strides have been made in
treating women and men suffering
from addiction, their sexuality is too
often marginalized. When sexuality is
not directly and positively addressed
in drug and alcohol treatment, it can
contribute to treatment failure, relapse,
and untold costs in the lives of addicts
and their families. The book introduces a pioneering evidence-based curriculum, designed to integrate concepts
of sexual health, current sex research,
and recent developments in relapse
prevention research. Complete with
suggested group activities, guided discussions, role plays, and more, the
program can reduce the risk of relapse
and increase client retention for men
and women with sex/drug linked
addiction and alcoholism. This curriculum was created by drug and alcohol counselors, sexual health advocates, and psychological/sexological
research specialists.
Douglas Braun-Harvey - Springer,
July 2009, 320p - ISBN: 9780826120151
Divertimento e dipendenza: il
rischio e l'azzardo. Indagine sui
comportamenti di gioco ed esperienze cliniche dell'équipe GAP
Pleasure and addiction: risk and
gambling. A survey on gambling
behaviour and the GAP team's clinical experiences
The game goes on, keep on winning!
This is one of the publicity slogans
inviting people to gamble by making
them hope in a future win. We know
how exciting it is to enter the world of
gambling, to think of putting one's
abilities on the line, to enjoy the pleasure of risk, to compete with destiny.
The GAP [Gioco d'Azzardo Patologico
(Pathological gambling)] Team of the
local health unit Mi 3 has conducted a
local survey whose results, presented
in the first part of the book, highlighting how this phenomenon is still hidden and how the potential call for help
is as yet unspoken. The second part
deals with clinical aspects: it collects
reports of pathological gamblers controlled by the outpatients' department,
a clinical experience on treatment and
the addresses of local services dealing
with gambling. The volume intends to
be a work tool encouraging discussion
and awareness of people working in
the clinical sector of gambling, but it
also addresses people interested in an
updated picture of the phenomenon.
S. Conti, R. Marzo, A. Caruso, A.
Nettuno, M. Merendi - Franco Angeli,
2009, 80p - ISBN: 978-8846495051
Hypnotically enhanced treatment
for addictions: Alcohol abuse,
drug abuse, gambling, weight
control, and smoking cessation
This book offers new strategies and
techniques for use with problem drinkers, alcoholism, drug addiction, and
gambling addiction in an outpatient
population. It reviews old and new
techniques and strategies. Five key
addictions are addressed: alcohol,
drugs, gambling, tobacco, and food
addiction. Many of the techniques and
strategies incorporate a variety of therapeutic modalities, including: cognitive-behavioral techniques, reframing
and other NLP techniques, systematic
desensitization, covert sensitization,
12-step-programs, guided imagery and
meditation, and more. The techniques
described can be employed both in
and out of trance.
Joseph Tramontana - Crown House,
Sept 2009, 242p - ISBN: 9780982357361
https://secure.aidcvt.com/chp/ProdD
etails.asp?ID=9780982357361
The war of the gods in addiction
Based on the correspondence between
Bill W., one of the founders of AA and
C.G. Jung, the book proposes an original and psychodynamic view of alcoholism and other addictions. Using
insights from Jungian psychology, it
demonstrates why the 12 steps of AA
really work. It explores, through theoretical and clinical material, modern
and ancient myths, and fairy tales, the
crucial process of neutralising the
archetypal shadow/archetypal evil, an
aspect of all true addictions. It also
explains how dreams may be used in
the diagnosis and treatment of addiction. It bridges the longstanding gap
between the mental health and twelvestep recovering communities in ways
that significantly encourage mutual
understanding and benefit.
David Schoen - Spring Journal Books,
Aug 2009, 162p - ISBN: 9781882670574
www.springjournalandbooks.com/
Permanent habit control. Using
hypnotherapy to eliminate
unwanted behaviors
Covers an approach for improving
quality of life and helping people to
adopt healthier lifestyles through
behavioral change. This approach is
advocated by preventive medicine,
behavioral medicine, complementary
and alternative medicine. Unfortunately,
most behavioural change programmes
rely on external solutions that have
only short-term effects. Because of
these failures, the use of hypnosis has
become popular as a way to help people break eating habits, quit smoking,
reduce alcohol and drug consumption,
and manage stress. The authors present techniques to permanently change
health behaviors using Ericksonian
hypnotherapy.
Brian Grodner & David Reid - Springer,
Oct 2009, 300p - ISBN: 9780826103871
Social behaviour and network
therapy for alcohol problems
This manual is based on previous
research in addiction treatment, including social network interventions, and
the authors' own work developing and
evaluating Social Behaviour & Network
Therapy (SBNT) for example in the
UK Alcohol Treatment Trial (UKATT).
Containing a range of ideas, the book
is guided by a key principle: the development of social support for a positive
change in drinking behaviour. Topics
include: an introduction to the evidence
base of SBNT, core components of the
treatment, and common questions
asked about the intervention. It features
a series of practical handouts.
Alex Copello, Jim Orford, Ray Hodgson
& Gillian Tober - Routledge, June
2009, 176p - ISBN: 978-1583918036
The easy way for women to
stop smoking: A revolutionary
approach using Allen Carr's
easyway method
First published in 1985, Allen Carr's
Easyway Method has been a worldwide blockbuster. This edition is using
a version of the method, but focussing
on special concern to women. Filled
with inspiring stories and quotes from
real women who have battled nicotine
addiction, this follow-up addresses the
unique difficulties females face when
they decide to quit. It covers issues
such as weight gain, increased stress,
and smoking during pregnancy.
Allen Carr, Francesca Cesati - Sterling,
Jan 2010, 256p - ISBN: 978-1402765506
www.sterlingpublishing.com/
Substance withdrawal syndrome
The book refers to the physiological
and psychological symptoms associated with withdrawal from the use of a
drug after prolonged administration or
habituation. The concept includes
withdrawal from smoking or drinking,
as well as withdrawal from an administered drug. The book presents the
latest research in the field.
Janet P. Rees & Olivia B. Woodhouse Nova Science, Sept 2009 - ISBN: 9781606929513
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400 rabbits: The pleasure
and pain of drunkenness
Interpretations by different disciplines
about the terms intoxication and drunkenness are often inconsistent, creating inefficiencies in their efforts to
combat the negative effects of these
behaviors. With this in mind, ICAP
(International Center for Alcohol
Policies) and DrinkWise Australia collaborated on a joint project which
seeks to resolve this issue by preparing this publication that provides
consensus on the nature of intoxication and drunkenness. It promotes
more streamlined approaches towards
combating the negative effects of
drunkenness; encourages the development of more effective communication strategies to effect behavioral
change among the general public; and
clarifies aims and objectives for reducing the incidence and prevalence of
intoxication and drunkenness in
society, thereby providing greater
accuracy in evaluating successes and
failures.
Anne Fox & Mike MacAvoy - Routledge,
March 2010, 256p - ISBN: 978415992138
Working together
to reduce harmful drinking
This book is intended to contribute to
the WHO global strategy to reduce the
harmful use of alcohol. While governments and health professionals must
occupy center stage in developing and
implementing alcohol policies, alcohol
producers also have a role to play. The
book demonstrates how positive that
role can be: producers show particular
competence and technical strength:
responsible production; availability of
noncommercial beverages; pricing and
marketing; encouraging responsible
choices. Reasonable regulation provides the context for good alcohol
policy (excessive regulation often
leads to unanticipated negative consequences) leading producers have a
proud record of making positive
contributions to implementing effective alcohol policies - but there are
opportunities to do much more. The
book concludes with options for specific actions that producers are able to
take. Some are extensions of actions
they are already taking; others are new
proposals. All are based on the experience, expertise, and resources of the
industry.
Marcus Grant, Mark Leverton Routledge, Oct 2009, 218p - ISBN:
978-0415800877
Undrunk. A skeptics guide to AA
Beginning with the story of his first
AA meeting, the author takes the mystery out what goes on behind closed
doors, dispelling misconceptions that
AA is cult-like, secretive, campy, or
lowbrow. He then presents a history
and introduction to AA, the steps and
traditions, punctuated by frank, often
hilarious descriptions of his own transformation to "getting" the programme.
A.J. Adams - Hazelden, 2009, 120p ISBN: 978-1592857203
www.hazelden.org/
Women in Alcoholics Anonymous
Recovery and empowerment
Can a recovery program like
Alcoholics Anonymous inadvertently
discourage women from seeking treatment? Are there ways that it can more
effectively contribute to their
sobriety? Combining individual personal narratives with statistical data,
Jolene Sanders offers valuable insight
into how women adapt the twelve-step
program and interact with the masculine culture of AA in ways that allow
them to conquer addiction and take
control of their lives.
Jolene M. Sanders - FirstForum
Press, April 2009, 145p - ISBN: 9781935049081
www.firstforumpress.com/
The ethics of doping
and anti-doping.
Redeeming the soul of sport?
With every positive drugs test the credibility and veracity of modern elite
sport is diminished. In this radical and
provocative critique of current antidoping policy and practice, the author
argues that the fight against doping is
nothing less than a battle to save sport
from itself. Drawing on detailed case
studies of doping in sport, and using a
highly original blend of conceptual
ideas from philosophy and sociology,
the author strongly criticises current
anti-doping regimes and challenges
our commonly held ideas about the
nature of sport and the risks posed by
drugs to health and fair play. He
argues forcefully that we must understand the precarious position of the
athlete and that only by containing
coaches, doctors and drug companies
within the anti-doping regime can we
hope to ever make progress on this
most important issue.
Verner Moller - Routledge, Aug. 2009,
192p - ISBN: 978-0415484664
Game addiction.
The experience and the effects
Videogames affect the minds, bodies,
and lives of millions of gamers, negatively and positively. This book
approaches videogame addiction from
a cross-disciplinary perspective, bridging the divide between liberal arts
academics and clinical researchers.
The topic of addiction is examined,
using research in neuroscience, media
studies, and developmental psychology.
Neils Clark & P. Shavaun Scott McFarland & Co, Aug 2009, 211p ISBN: 978-0786443642
www.mcfarlandpub.com/
Hidden addictions: Assessment
practices for psychotherapists,
counselors, and health care
providers
Media portrayals and diagnostic criteria convey an image of an addicted
person as someone whose deficient
coping skills are readily apparent. Yet
addictions remain some of the most
frequently missed diagnoses in mental
health care settings. This occurs, in
large part, because most people with
addictions do not fit the stereotype.
This book addresses how addictions
can be recognized more often and
assessed in the context of psychotherapy. Along with the standard assessment instruments, it introduces to
methods for asking the appropriate
questions and listening to the clinical
dialogue for signs of a undisclosed
addiction. It provides knowledge
about addictions and their assessment
in a relevant way to clinical practice.
Marilyn Freimuth - Jason Aronson,
2009, 269p - ISBN: 9780765700858
www.rowmanlittlefield.com/
Desire.
Where sex meets addiction
This book explores the shifting boundaries between the feelings of passion
and addiction, desire and need, and
raises provocative questions about
who we love and why. It combines
intimate memoir, interviews, science
and psychology to explore the difference between falling in love and falling prey to an addiction. Part one
defines what addiction is and how it
works. Part two explores the possible
causes of addiction. Part three considers what we can do about it, including a suggestion about how we describe and treat addiction. In conclusion, there are no easy answers…
Susan Cheever - Simon & Schuster,
Oct 2008, 192p - ISBN: 9781416537922
http://books.simonandschuster.com/
The addict: One patient,
one doctor, one year
Dr. Stein depicts a year in the life of
his most memorable patients, a young
woman named Lucy who is desperate
to escape her addiction to pain medication. The memoir focuses on the
interaction between doctor and patient
as they try various types of treatment,
including other drugs that block the
effects of Lucy's preferred pills, but
carry side effects. Through intense
therapy sessions, they forge a remarkable connection with far-reaching
beneficial effects for both. Lucy is
emblematic of all addicts who are
fighting to overcome their disease, but
she is also an unforgettable individual
whose strength and spirit, harnessed
by Dr. Stein, allow her to emerge from
the anonymity of this epidemic.
Michael Stein - William Morrow & Co,
April 2009, 275p - ISBN: 9780061368134
www.harpercollins.com/
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Clutter no more: 12 steps to
freeing your life from your stuff
The book covers the addiction to messiness, stuff, clutter and offers solutions
for it. There are many resources on
de-cluttering and organizing, and some
new research on hoarding as a form of
anxiety disorder. The book explains
what the payoff' is for most addictions,
including the clutter addict. People
with eating disorders are seeking
control in a world they consider out of
their control. The alcoholic and drug
addict escape reality and feelings by
altering their minds. The gambling
addict escapes life problems. What is
the pay-off for the clutter junkie? As
long as they remain overwhelmed they
don't have to live life, move forward,
and they always have an excuse. Many
will take on extra work, volunteer, go
out of their way to do for others, to
avoid problems with a good excuse.
Clutter is a wall built bit by bit of
things that will keep the world out. As
with other addictions, it becomes the
prison that keeps the addict in.
drugs have helped to constitute our
ideas of what it means to be a “free
subject”. The book thus disturbs and
unravels the naturalness of the drug
question, as it traces the multiple and
heterogeneous lines of development
out of which it has been assembled.
La culture des problèmes publics
L'alcool au volant : la production d'un ordre symbolique
Toby Seddon - Routledge, Sept. 2009,
224p - ISBN: 978-0415480277
www.routledgelaw.com/
Barb Rogers - Conari Press, Sept 2009,
160p - ISBN: 978-1573244640
www.conari.com/
Iced: The story of organized
crime in Canada
Traduction en français d'un livre américain qui raconte les péripéties de
l'histoire du problème public de l'alcool
au volant aux États-Unis. L'auteur
enquête sur les opérations accomplies
par les administrations, les commissions
parlementaires, les bureaux de statistiques, les laboratoires de recherche et
les organes de presse. Il analyse les
stratégies des producteurs et distributeurs d'alcool, des entreprises d'automobiles et des compagnies d'assurances
pour se dédouaner de toute culpabilité.
En empruntant à la dramaturgie et à la
rhétorique, il se lance dans une analyse
culturelle des mises en scène et en
argument de la responsabilité causale
et politique des accidents. Les propositions de l'auteur ont rarement été
reprises par la sociologie des problèmes publics. Dans sa postface, Daniel
Cefaï restitue l'œuvre de Gusfield dans
son environnement intellectuel : l'héritage de la tradition de Chicago, la
sociologie du droit des années 1960 et
celle, émergente, des sciences et des
techniques, l'ethnométhodologie, l'anthropologie symbolique de Turner ou
la critique littéraire de Kenneth Burke.
Impulsivity:
Causes, control and disorders
Several different definitions and measures have been established to examine
impulsive behavior such as substance
abuse addicts, brain-damaged patients,
and eating disorders. Impulsivity is a
construct both complex and multidimensional. It has been characterized
as an inability to inhibit appropriate
behaviors or to delay gratification.
Descriptive features have led some to
suggest that impulsivity is not a unitary construct, and comprises several
related phenomena classified together
as impulsivity. It has been linked to
various negative outcomes including
criminality, delinquency, extramarital
affairs and gambling. This book gathers
the latest research from around the
globe in this field.
George H. Lassiter - Nova Science,
Nov 2009 - ISBN: 978-1607419518
A history of drugs. Drugs and
freedom in the liberal age
It is often argued that drug use should
be seen as a matter of personal freedom
in which the State should not interfere.
It has also been maintained that drug
addiction represents the abnegation of
individual freedom. From the perspective of a lawyer and criminologist, this
book looks at the relationship between
drugs and freedom, which has been
central to long-running debates. It
argues that, since the emergence of
liberalism in the late 18th century, drugs
and freedom have existed in a mutually
constitutive relation. Whilst changing
conception of freedom have shaped
the ways in which the “drug question”
has been viewed and dealt with, at the
same time changing perspectives on
Organized crime has a long and notorious history in Canada. In the 19th
century, the pirate was superceded by
criminal groups who engaged in cattle
rustling, liquor smuggling, counterfeiting and government fraud. In the early
part of the 20th century, immigrant
Italian communities in southern
Ontario were terrorized by the Black
Hand, brutish bands of extortionists.
During the Prohibition Era, the profits
reaped by supplying a thirsty American
market catapulted Canadian crime
groups to unprecedented levels of
sophistication, power and violence.
Beginning in the 1930s, illegal bookmaking was the largest revenue generator for criminal organizations.
Montreal emerged as Canada’s underworld capital, dominated by an alliance
of the Canadian and American mafia.
Rackets included loan-sharking, prostitution, labor racketeering, fraud and
theft. In the 1950s, narcotics became
the greatest source of revenue, and
Montreal became the largest importer
of heroin in North America. Today,
Canada is both a branch-plant operation
and international headquarters to the
Italian mafia, motorcycle gangs, Chinese
triads, Eastern European crime groups
and South American drug cartels.
Stephen Schneider - John Wiley, June
2009, 608p - ISBN: 978-0470835005
Turn on and tune in:
Psychedelics, narcotics and
euphoriants
Timothy Leary's advice to “tune in,
turn on and drop out” was a 1960s
exhortation to experiment with LSD,
but humans had been consuming ergot
alkaloids related to lysergic acid diethylamide for at least a thousand years.
Opium has been around even longer
with its medicinal uses being known
to the Ancient Sumerians as long ago
as 3400 BC. This book describes the
historical, anthropological and sociological importance of psychoactive
substances including LSD, opium,
heroin, cocaine, cannabis, peyote,
belladonna, mandrake, and absinthe,
highlighting the people (e.g. authors,
painters, pop stars, and drug barons)
who have been associated with these
drugs. The basic chemistry and pharmacological activity is covered together with a brief account of useful
drugs that have emerged from a study
of the psychoactive ones.
John Mann - Royal Society of Chemistry,
Sept 2009, 120p - ISBN: 9781847559098
www.rsc.org/
The culture of public problems.
Drinking-driving and the symbolic
order
Joseph Gusfield (trad. par Daniel
Céfaï) - Economica, Fév. 2009, 354 p.
- ISBN: 978-2717856101
www.lavoisier.fr/
Generation S.
Tales for a steroid culture
The book xamines the factors that
have constantly catapulted steroid use
to headlines in mainstream media. The
author finds himself in the middle of
the controversy, between his own drug
use, his relationships with steroid-pushing websites, his ongoing research,
government interventions and both the
legal and more illicit sides of the
medical system. From the doctors hired
to attack steroid use who then became
advocates for the drug, to education
and misinformation about steroids, the
author brings his insightful, insider
view to this book.
Anthony Roberts - ECW Press, Oct.
2009, 176p - ISBN: 978-1550228854
www.ecwpress.com/
Alcohol in world history
From the origins of drinking to the use
and abuse of alcohol in the present
day, this global study draws on
approaches and research from biology,
anthropology, sociology and psychology. Chapters include: the impact of
colonialism; alcohol before the world
economy; and its industrialisation.
The book combines archaeological
evidence with historical case studies
to produce a fascinating exploration of
drink and its cultural meanings in
contemporary society.
Gina Hames - Routledge, April 2009,
176p - ISBN: 978-0415311526
www.routledgehistory.com/
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The candy machine: How
cocaine took over the world
Cocaine business is getting bigger.
Governments spend millions on an
unwinnable war against it. How did
the cocaine economy get so huge? Who
keeps it running behind the scenes? In
this book, the author travels the trade
routes from Colombia via Miami,
Kingston and Tijuana to London and
New York. He meets Medillin hitmen,
US kingpins, Brazilian traffickers, and
talks to soldiers and narcotics officers
who fight the gangs and cartels. He
traces cocaine's progress from legal
'pick-me-up' to luxury product to global commodity, looks at legalisation
programmes in countries such as Switzerland, and shows how America's
anti-drugs crusade is actually increasing
demand.
Tom Feiling - Penguin, Aug 2009,
320p - ISBN: 978-0141034461
www.penguincatalogue.co.uk/
Histoire des amphétamines
Longtemps la philosophie, la religion
ou la politique ont permis à l'homme
d'effectuer des modifications sur luimême. Le XXe siècle a vu apparaître
de nouvelles façons - techniques - de
transformer l'homme. Parmi celles-ci,
les psychotropes, et notamment les
amphétamines : leur histoire a, très
tôt, soulevé des questions inhérentes à
l'usage d'instruments de modification
de soi-même. Ce livre raconte l'histoire
de ces substances : leur découverte en
1928, leur expansion, leur déclin et
leur interdiction à l'échelle planétaire à
partir de 1971, leur renouveau, ensuite,
qui voit la diversification de la molécule initiale avec l'apparition de dérivés
(ritaline ecstasy, méthamphétamine,
etc.) et leur utilisation pour certaines
pathologies. Première histoire naturelle et politique des amphétamines
publiée en France, ce livre est aussi
l'occasion d'une réflexion sur l'ensemble des transformations de l'homme
par lui-même qu'apporte la biologie :
le bio-pouvoir.
Pascal Nouvel - Paris, PUF, janvier
2009, 320p - ISBN: 978-2130571421
www.puf.com/
Opium for the masses.
Harvesting nature's best pain
medication
Stephen J Gertz - Feral House, June
2009, 250p - ISBN: 978-1932595345
http://feralhouse.com/
The first edition of this book (1994)
became a phenomenon. Michael Pollan
wrote about it in Harpers magazine:
“Regarded as God's own medicine,
preparations of opium were as common in the Victorian medicine cabinet
as aspirin is in ours. As late as 1915,
pamphlets issued by the US Department of Agriculture were still mentioning opium poppies as a good cash
crop for northern farmers. Well into
this century, Russian, Greek, and Arab
immigrants have used poppy-head tea
as a mild sedative and a remedy for
headaches, muscle pain, cough, and
diarrhea. During the Civil War, gardeners were encouraged to plant opium
in order to ensure a supply of painkillers for the Army. What Hogshire has
done is to excavate this vernacular
knowledge and then publish it to the
world-in how-to form, with recipes”.
This new edition enlarges the book's
scope to instruct readers on growing
and harvesting methods, with information showing how medical books once
praised opium as the country's most
useful medication, and how it become
demonized with racist pulp literature.
Rapture.
Literature, secrecy, addiction
Jim Hogshire - Feral House, Oct 2009,
172p - ISBN: 978-1932595468
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Dope menace. The sensational
world of drug paperbacks
Lurid covers, often bad writing, outlandish misinformation… what's not
to love? Throughout the 20th century,
book publishers exploited our secret
desire to escape social straitjackets
and succumb to a world of irresponsibility and total sensation. This book
unleashes these demonic angels again
for a wicked curtain call. The book
collects hundreds of fabulously lurid
and collectible covers in color, from
xenophobic turn-of-the century tomes
about the opium trade to the beatnik
glories of reefer smoking and William
S. Burroughs' Junkie to the spaced-out
psychedelic in the 60s. We mustn't
forget the gonzo paranoia brought on
by Hunter Thompson in the 70s, when
anything was everything.
Rapture: the act of seizing or carrying
off as prey or plunder; the act of carrying or being carried; and the expression of ecstasy or euphoria in words.
The concept of rapture in literature
navigates along a specific trajectory,
from rapine status through to “being
carried (away)”. This book identifies
the apparent impossibility of recounting such rapturous states, while questioning what we can do with those
who are “enrapt”… The book engages
with the “states of heightened awareness”, and seeks to connect with the
notion of addiction as an alternative to
the moral law. The author deals with
notions of writing as a kind of “seizure”, writing as a “fit”, in the works
of Blake, Hölderlin, Nietzsche, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Genet... The process
of returning from states of exaltation
to find oneself writing in often bleak
locations, underlines the relationship
between rapture and literature. The
author concludes that the very possibility of communication and interpretation is radically open to doubt. The
addict-writer becomes representative
of the dialectic of writing as an act of
communication; an act which is tragically doomed from the outset.
David Punter - Sussex Academic Press,
May 2009, 272p - ISBN: 9781845191023
www.sussex-academic.co.uk/
Everybody must get stoned:
Rock stars on drugs
Keith's on guitar, Charlie's on drums,
and Ronnie's on rhythm. But who's on
drugs? A fascinating, informative, and
hilarious compendium about two of
pop culture's most enduring obsessions: rock musicians and the drugs
they love.
R. U. Sirius - Citadel Press (imprint of
Kensington Pub. Corporation), April
2009, 230p - ISBN: 978-0806530734
www.kensingtonbooks.com/
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New on the EMCDDA website: www.emcdda.europa.eu/
Identifying Europe's information needs for effective drug policy
To celebrate its 15 years of its existence, the Emcdda organised (6-8 May) a conference on this theme. Many
interesting presentations and abstracts from this conference are now available on this site:
www.emcdda.europa.eu/events/2009/conference#presentations
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In this issue: 15 years of drug monitoring in Europe; new European study
on Internet-based drug treatment; ESPAD, a crucial window onto adolescent substance use; Emcdda and Europol step up cooperation; World drug
policy: priorities for the next decade. May 2009, 8p - ISSN: 0873-5379
Insights 10: Internet-based drug treatment interventions
This report provides a comprehensive review of the relatively new phenomenon of Internet-based drug treatment interventions (DTI). It presents
a sample of Internet-based DTI programmes across Europe and outlines
their methodologies, providing a series of screenshots to further demonstrate the websites' content and to provide an overall impression of the
types of online treatment available. This publication is a useful resource
for researchers, policymakers and the general public, to gain an insight
into the potential for the Internet to become a new channel for drug treatment intervention.
May 2009, 96p - ISBN: 978-9291683482
UNODC annual report 2009
The 2009 annual report provides an
overview of what UNODC is doing to
address the threat posed by drugs and
crime. Although drug use and production have stabilized over the past few
years, there are too many illicit drugs
in the world, too many people suffering from addiction, and too much
crime and violence associated with the
drugs trade. UNODC has rallied regional
and international cooperation to stem
the flow of Afghanistan's opium
(through the Paris Pact), and to
address the threat posed by drug trafficking to the security of West Africa.
Moreover, UNODC is stepping up its
engagement in Central America and
the Caribbean to reduce the vulnerability of these regions to drugs and crime.
UNODC, March 2009, 58p.
www.unodc.org/documents/aboutunodc/AR09_LORES.pdf
The Unodc-Wco Container
Control Programme
The Container Control Programme
(CCP) concept was initiated in 2003
and developed by Unodc and the
World Customs Organization (WCO) for
the purpose of assisting governments
to create sustainable enforcement
structures in selected sea ports to minimize the risk of maritime containers
being exploited and used for illicit
Drug use: an overview of general population surveys
in Europe
In many European countries, one or more general population surveys
have been carried out to get an impression of the characteristics of illicit drug use at national level. Despite valuable efforts to standardise
national drug surveys among the general populations in European
Member States and to enhance cross-national comparability, national
drug surveys still use different instruments, reporting formats and
methodologies. To facilitate the comparison of survey practices and to
provide a tool for everyone planning, organising or executing a survey
about drug use among the general population, a meta-analysis of 25
population surveys on drug use in Europe was carried out, including
intrinsic and methodological discussions and a description of financial
sources, timetables and accessibility of the fieldwork and data documentation. The analysis presented here is part of a larger feasibility
study of a repetitive drug survey among the general population in
Belgium.
Thematic Paper, April 2009, 106p - ISBN: 978-9291683758
Understanding the 'Spice' phenomenon
Smokable herbal mixtures under the brand name 'Spice' are known to have been sold on the Internet and in
various specialised shops. Although advertised as an 'exotic incense blend which releases a rich aroma' and
'not for human consumption', when smoked, Spice products have been reported to have effects similar to
those of cannabis. Despite various media reports and users' accounts on the Internet, little verifiable information on the psychoactive and other effects of Spice was officially reported to the Emcdda prior to December
2008. It can be assumed that different combinations of synthetic cannabinoids may have been added to some
Spice products to produce cannabis-like subjective effects. The Spice products appear to be largely an
Internet phenomenon. The EMCDDA survey established that Spice products are available on national websites
in two-thirds of the EU Member States, but the actual accessibility and levels of use are difficult to assess.
Responding to potential health concerns, Austria, Germany, France, and Luxembourg have taken legal
actions to ban or otherwise control Spice products and related compounds. Other Member States are also
now considering if measures in this area are merited.
Report from an EMCDDA expert meeting (6 March 2009), Lisbon, published in May, 25p.
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drug trafficking, transnational organized
crime and other forms of black market.
This document describes the project,
the role and responsibilities of each
organization, and provides progress
reports by country (Ecuador, Ghana,
Pakistan, Senegal, and Turkmenistan)
World Customs Organization / United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime,
June 2009, 10p.
www.unodc.org/documents/organizedcrime/containerprogramme/Contain
er_Programme_Progress_Report_J
une_2009.pdf
Serious Organised Crime Agency
annual report 2008-2009
The work undertaken by the (UK)
Serious Organised Crime Agency
(SOCA) over the last year, and described in this report, demonstrates the
Government's commitment to tackle
the harm caused by serious organised
crime to the UK. Organised crime is a
global problem, but its harm is felt at
individual and community level. Its
victims range from those who face
drug dependence to people who fall
prey to mass marketing scams. SOCA
has had demonstrable success dealing
with the international criminal trade in
Class A drugs by focussing 'upstream',
disrupting the trade before the drugs
enter the UK marketplace. It especially
claims it has made 'a discernable difference' to the UK cocaine market.
SOCA, May 2009, 72p.
www.soca.gov.uk/assessPublications/
downloads/SOCA_AR_2009.pdf
Letting our communities flourish:
A strategy for tackling serious
organised crime in Scotland
Serious organised crime causes devastating harm to our communities. Every
community is affected, and the problem is global. Drugs and prostitution
affect every area of Scotland. Fraud
and counterfeiting drive up prices and
insurance costs for hardpressed families, and help to fund other activities
like illegal fire arms trading, violence
and drug dealing. To provide a strategic focus for tackling serious organised
crime and to ensure co-ordinated and
targeted action, the Scottish Government
New papers on the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDCP)
website : www.idpc.net/
• IDPC Concept note: Effective drug law enforcement - This concept
paper describes an IDPC project that aims to bring together law enforcement
managers and strategists from around the world to refine ideas for effective
use of law enforcement resources, and promote these strategies to the relevant
authorities. May 2009, 6p.
• The Swiss four pillars policy: An evolution from local experimentation
to federal law - This briefing paper aims to relate lessons learned by the
incremental implementation of the Four pillar policy in Switzerland. It
demonstrates that in certain socio-political settings it is possible for an integrated drug policy centred on health to overcome the ideological imperatives previously motivating governing authorities to adopt a law enforcementoriented approach. May 2009, 11p.
• The 2009 Commission on Narcotic Drugs and its High Level Segment.
Report of proceedings - This document provides a summary of what happened at the 52nd session of the CND and its High Level Segment and offers
an analysis of some of the key discussions and debates. April 2009, 18p.
• Draft political declaration and plan of action on international cooperation towards an integrated and balanced strategy to counter the
world drug problem - These two documents are the versions presented by
the Commission on Narcotic Drugs to delegates when they arrived at the
high-level meeting in Vienna, on 11th March. April 2009, 34p.
• The incarceration of drug offenders: an overview. This report published
by the Beckley Foundation Drug Policy Programme in partnership with the
International Centre for Prison Studies at Kings College London, revisits
the topic of the incarceration of drug offenders. March 2009, 19p.
established the Serious Organised
Crime Taskforce. This paper describes
its strategy.
Serious Organised Crime Taskforce,
Scottish Government / Crown - June
2009, 34p - ISBN: 978-0755980719
www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2
009/06/01144911/3
The road to recovery: one year on
A progress report detailing achievements over the last year following the
publication of Scotland's drugs strategy The Road to Recovery. Central to
the strategy was a new approach to
tackling problem drug use based
firmly on the concept of recovery. The
action set out in the strategy reflects
that tackling drug use requires action
across a broad range of areas. This
report takes the same approach. Over
the last year significant progress has
been made at a national and local level.
Achievements are outlined under the
headings preventing drug use, promoting recovery, law enforcement, children in substance misusing families,
and making it work.
Scottish Government / Crown - May
2009, 19p - ISBN: 978-0755980703
009/05/27153521/0
A comparison of the cost-effectiveness of the prohibition and
regulation of drugs
Despite the billions spent each year on
proactive and reactive drug law enforcement, the prohibitionist approach
has consistently delivered the opposite
of its stated goals. Data demonstrates
that drug supply and availability are
increasing; that health harms are also
increasing; that massive levels of crime
created at all scales are leading to a
crisis in the criminal justice system;
and that illicit drug profits are enriching
criminals, fuelling conflict and destabilising producer and transit countries.
Alternative approaches - involving
established regulatory models of controlling drug production, supply and
use - have not been considered or costed. The limited cost effectiveness
analysis of current policy that has
been undertaken has frequently been
suppressed. This paper is an attempt to
begin to redress these failings by comparing the costs and benefits of the
current policy of drug prohibition,
with those of a proposed model for the
legal regulation of drugs in the UK. It
also identify areas of further research,
and steps to ensure future drugs policy
based on evidence of what works.
This initial analysis demonstrates that
a move to legally regulated drug supply would deliver substantial benefits
to the Treasury and wider community,
even in the highly unlikely event of a
substantial increase in use.
Transform Drug Policy Foundation,
April 2009, 53 p.
www.tdpf.org.uk/TransformCBApa
per.pdf
ADAM II 2008 annual report
This report of the (US) Arrestee Drug
Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) program,
which surveys drug use among male
arrestees in 10 metropolitan cities,
shows that the percentage of arrestees
testing positive for at least one illicit
drug ranged from 49% in Washington
to 87% in Chicago. The most common
substances used, in descending order,
are: marijuana, cocaine, opiates, and
methamphetamine. Key findings:
• Marijuana is the most commonly
detected drug at the time of arrest.
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• The proportion of arrestees testing
positive for cocaine ranges from 17%
in Sacramento to 41% in Chicago.
• Heroin appears to be relatively more
available in Chicago, Indianapolis,
and Portlandt.
• Meth remains a regional phenomenon. Less than 1% of arrestees in the
eastern US tested positive. But, in
Sacramento and Portland, 35 and 15%
of arrestees, respectively, test positive.
The findings underscore the need to
expand programs that work to divert
non-violent offenders into drug treatment instead of prison. Research shows
that recidivism rates go down substantially among those who undergo treatment and recovery support services in
the criminal justice system.
Office of National Drug Control
Policy, April 2009, 151p.
www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/new
s/press09/052809.html
Evaluation of the mandatory
drug testing of arrestees pilot
Mandatory Drug Testing of Arrestees
(MDTA) aims to encourage problem
drug users who come into contact with
the criminal justice system to engage
with treatment services, as a means of
addressing the individual's drug misuse
problem and associated offending
behaviour. Under the scheme, anyone
arrested for defined 'trigger' offences
(acquisitive crime and drug offences),
and testing positive for heroin and/or
cocaine are required to undergo an
assessment with a drugs assessor.
Those who would benefit from treatment are introduced to drug treatment
providers on a voluntary basis. The
MDTA pilot scheme was implemented
in June 2007 in three police stations
(one each in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and
Glasgow), and is due to run until June
2009. This paper presents the findings
of a process evaluation and cost effectiveness analysis of the pilot scheme.
Kate Skellington Orr, Shirley McCoard,
Paul McCartney - Scottish Government Social Research / Crown, May
2009, 95p - ISBN: 978-075975129
009/05/12155538/19
The affordability of alcoholic
beverages in the European
Union. Understanding the link
between alcohol affordability,
consumption and harms
The European Commission commissioned Rand Europe to conduct this
study on the affordability of alcohol
products across the EU, and on its
potential impacts of on harmful use of
alcohol. Main findings: There is
increasing pan-European interest in
implementing measures to combat
alcohol harms. - There has been a
decline in the real value of alcohol
excise duty rates across the EU. Alcohol has become more affordable
across the EU since 1996. - There is a
positive relationship between alcohol
affordability and alcohol consumption,
and three types of harms: liver cirrhosis, traffic injuries and deaths. - Crossborder alcohol shopping for personal
use has negative implications for the
'importing' country. - Alcohol pricing
policies are not always used towards
public health aims. - Changes in current alcohol pricing policy could lead
to reductions in alcohol-related harms,
but some of them are more feasible
than others. - It is important to understand the influence of price and affordability on alcohol consumption and
harms in order to inform effective
policy-making.
Lila Rabinovich, Philipp-Bastian
Brutscher, Han de Vries, Jan Tiessen,
Jack Clift, Anais Reding - Published
by Rand Europe for the European
Commission, 2009, 145p.
http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_determinants/life_style/alcohol/news_ran
d_en.htm
The phoney war on drugs
This document shows that the UK has
one of the most liberal drugs policies
in Europe, combined with one of the
worst enforcement and drug use
records. Both Sweden and the Netherlands (despite popular misconceptions)
have a more rigorous approach - and
far fewer problems with drugs. The
UK new harm-reduction strategy is
aimed to reduce the cost of problem
drug use. The focus was switched
from combating illicit drug use to the
drug users' problems. But this harm-
reduction approach has failed. It has
entrapped 147 000 people in statesponsored (mainly methadone) addiction.
Both Sweden and the Netherlands
have far more coherent and effective
drugs policies. All illicit drug use is
targeted. Treatment is clearly aimed at
breaking addiction. Drug laws are
clearly enforced. And, unlike in the
UK, the majority of the drugs budget
of both countries is spent on prevention and enforcement…
Kathy Gyngell - Centre for Policy
Studies, May 2009, 82p - ISBN: 9781905389940
www.cps.org.uk/cps_catalog/the%20
phoney%20war%20on%20drugs.pdf
Cutting crime two years on.
An update to the 2008-11
crime strategy
This updated crime strategy is published for England and Wales. Reducing
the causes of crime including drug
misuse is core to the strategy. Taking
“further action” in this area includes
merging prolific offender schemes and
drug intervention schemes into one.
HM Government, May 2009, 76p Isbn: 978-1-84726-917-1
www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/
crime-strategy-07/cutting-crime09?view=Binary
Overdose prevention
and response
Created by experienced overdose trainers and reviewed by peers and medical professionals, this book provides a
resource for the development and
implementation of overdose prevention and response programs by drug
user activist groups and harm reduction organizations, particularly in
Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It
combines practical information about
overdose risk with strategies for preventing, identifying, and responding
effectively.
Matt Curtis & Lydia Guterman Open Society Institute (OSI), June
2009, 86p - ISBN: 978-1891385865
www.soros.org/initiatives/health/foc
us/ihrd/articles_publications/publications/overdose_20090604
Human rights documentation
and advocacy. A guide for
organizations of people who
use drugs
This document aims to help activists
recognize human rights abuses that are
systematically conducted and condoned by state and non-state actors and
silently suffered by people who use
drugs. The guidebook focuses on providing activists with the tools necessary
to develop a human rights advocacy
plan, particularly by documenting
abuses against people who use drugs.
Karyn Kaplan - Open Society Institute,
Feb 2009, 116p.
us/ihrd/articles_publications/publications/hrdoc_20090218
Human rights abuses in the
name of drug treatment:
reports from the field
Around the world, governments commit flagrant human rights violations
against people who use drugs, often in
the name of "treating" them for drug
dependence. Suspected drug users are
subject to arbitrary, prolonged detention and, once inside treatment centers,
abuses that may rise to the level of
torture. Drug users who voluntarily
seek medical help are sometimes unaware of the nature or duration of the
treatment they will receive. In fact,
treatment can include detention for
months or years without judicial oversight, beatings, isolation, and addition
of their names in registries that
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deprive them of basic social protections
and subject them to future police surveillance and violence. The accounts
in this fact sheet, drawn from published
literature and interviews with people
who have passed through treatment in
Asia and the former Soviet Union,
detail the range of abuses practiced in
the name of drug dependence treatment,
and suggest the need for reform on
grounds of health and human rights.
Open Society Institute, March 2009, 4p.
us/ihrd/articles_publications/publications/treatmentabuse_20090318
Alcohol, tobacco and cannabis
at 16 years old. Initial results of
the French part of the ESPAD
2007 survey
The OFDT has progressively established
an observatory system on the use of
psychoactive substances during adolescence which now consists of three
surveys, two of which are being conducted internationally: the HBSC
(Health Behaviour in School-aged
Children) survey is questioning 11-,
13- and 15-year-old pupils; the ESPAD
(European School Survey Project on
Alcohol and other Drugs) survey started by CAN and the Council of Europe
concerns 16-year-old pupils; and, the
ESCAPAD survey which goes beyond
the educational environment, more
specifically targeting French 17-yearold adolescents. This issue of Tendances
presents the initial French results on
tobacco, alcohol and cannabis use
from the last EsPAD survey which was
conducted during the first three months
of 2007. It updates the changes in use
of these psychoactive substances in
relation to the two previous surveys:
ESPAD 1999 and 2003. In its last section, it also presents some descriptive
findings on the sociability, leisure
activities and school life of the pupils
questioned.
Stéphane Legleye, Stanislas Spilka,
Olivier Le Nézet, Christine Hassler,
Marie Choquet - In Tendances No 64,
OFDT, 2009, 6 p.
www.ofdt.fr/ofdtdev/live/englishtab/engpubli/tends/tend64eng.html
Islas Baleares, turismo, vida
nocturna y consumo de drogas
Durante las últimas décadas se ha visto,
en muchos países, un incremento en el
consumo de drogas en contextos
recreativos. También muchos jóvenes
se desplazan a destinos turísticos internacionales específicamente por su
vida nocturna y el consumo de drogas.
Las islas Baleares son un ejemplo de
destino popular entre el turismo joven
nacional e internacional. Para conocer
las consecuencias sobre la salud
pública, IREFREA (Instituto Europeo de
Estudios sobre la Prevención) ha coordinado una investigación entre el
turismo joven que llega a las Baleares
atraído por su vida recreativa. El desarrollo del proyecto, que ha durado
dos años (feb. 2007 - feb. 2009) y en
el que se ha entrevistado a 3 003 jóvenes turistas, ha dado lugar a datos,
documentos y reflexiones de interés
en la prevención tanto del consumo de
drogas como de sus riesgos y mejorar
los estándares de calidad que puede
ofrecer la industria turística.
http://contenido2.irefrea.org/archivos/irefrea/Triptico%20Turismo%2
0ES.pdf
Assessing and preventing
violence in national and international recreational settings
for young people
The previous spanish study is part of
this european project. The purpose was
to assess the reality and determinants
of violence (including prevalence, risk
factors, problems, preventive measures,
legislation and health issues) involving
tourists in recreational nightlife settings
in a typical Mediterranean holiday
resort (Balearic Islands), compared
with violence in similar settings in
tourists' countries of residence (in
Britain or Germany). It examines and
evaluates the different types of intervention developed to manage youth
violence in national settings and tourist destinations (legislative, health,
police and nightlife industry led interventions) and makes proposals for
improvement. The link below is providing the description of the project, the
partners involved, local reports
(Liverpool, Berlin, Balearic Islands),
main statistical data from the survey,
publications and presentations that
have been used in several conferences
all around the world, and recommendations (in 3 languages).
http://contenido2.irefrea.org/Index.a
sp?idcontenido=5125
Preventing mental, emotional,
and behavioral disorders
among young people:
Progress and possibilities
The costs of treatment for mental
health and addictive disorders, which
create an enormous burden on the
affected individuals, their families,
and society, have stimulated increasing interest in prevention practices
that can impede the onset or reduce
the severity of the disorders.
Prevention practices have emerged in
a variety of settings, including programmes for selected at-risk populations, school-based interventions,
interventions in primary care settings,
and community services designed to
address a broad array of mental health
needs and populations. This book
updates a 1994 book, Reducing Risks
for Mental Disorders, focusing special
attention on the research base and program experience with younger populations that have emerged since that
time.
O'Connell, Mary Ellen, Thomas Boat
& Kenneth E. Warner - National Academies Press, 2009, 556p Prepublication available at:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.f
cgi?book=napp&part=nap12480
Enseñando a Crecer.
Cómo prevenir el consumo
de drogas en la familia
Esta guía de prevención del consumo
de drogas en el ámbito familiar nace
con el objetivo de facilitar a las
madres, padres y/o tutores las herramientas y recursos básicos para desarrollar la tarea preventiva en el seno de
la familia, así como servir de apoyo
para la adaptación de actividades de
formación en prevención de drogas
desarrolladas por los distintos agentes
sociales implicados en el fenómeno de
las drogodependencias. Esta guía,
parte de un primer análisis de los distintos estilos educativos y ofrece estrategias de entrenamiento en habilidades
sociales, comunicativas, afectivas,
organizativas, de negociación y de
resolución de conflictos en la vida
familiar, para terminar informando
sobre los efectos de las drogas más
habituales, las respuesta a preguntas
frecuentes de los hijos según su edad
y desarrollo cognitivo y cómo actuar
en situaciones de consumo experimental y/o habitual.
Consejería de Sanidad del Gobierno
de Canarias, Fundación Canaria para
la Prevención e Investigación de las
Drogodependencias (Funcapid), 2009,
120p - ISBN: 978-8469183601
www.gobiernodecanarias.org/sanidad/dgad/documentos/2009Ensenan
doCrecer.pdf
Act-info Jahresbericht 2007.
Suchtberatung und Suchtbehandlung in der Schweiz.
Ergebnisse des Monitoringsystems
Rapport annuel act-info 2007. Prise
en charge et traitement des dépendances en Suisse. Résultats du système de monitorage
Act-info annual report 2007. Drug
abuse care and treatment services in
Switzerland. Results of the monitoring system
Act-info is the name of the Swiss
monitoring system that was developped in 2004 to analyse the care and
treatment services offered to people
having a substance abuse problem
(mainly with alcohol, opiates, cocaine
and cannabis). It aims to evaluate the
characteristics and the needs of the
people coming to these services, and to
plan care improvement and future preventive measures on evidence-based
data. This annual report provides a
description of its methods and the data
for the year 2007. It is downloadable
in two languages: German and French.
Etienne Maffli, Marina Delgrande
Jordan, Susanne Schaaf, Michael
Schaub, Urs Künzi, Christopher Eastus
- Bern: Bundesamt für Gesundheit
(Office fédéral de la santé publique),
March 2009, 72p.
www.sfa-ispa.ch/index.php?IDcat=
39&IDarticle=1263&IDcat39visible=
1&langue=F
Substance use among women
during pregnancy and following
childbirth
This issue of the (US) National Survey
on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
Report examines past month use of
alcohol, cigarettes, and marijuana
among pregnant and parenting women
aged 18 to 44 to shed light on how
rapidly use of these substances resumes after childbirth.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration, The NSDUH
report issue May 2009, 4p.
http://whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/pu
blications/
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Assessment of compulsory
treatment of people who use
drugs in Cambodia, China,
Malaysia and Viet Nam:
Application of selected human
rights principles
Human rights are universal: this means
that everybody, including people who
use drugs, is entitled to enjoy human
rights. About 13 million people inject
drugs worldwide. The largest number
of people who use drugs can be found
in Asia, where 4.85 million people
were reported to inject drugs in 2008.
This report deals with compulsory
drug treatment centres in China, Cambodia, Malaysia and Viet Nam. It describes the treatment and HIV-related
interventions provided at the centres
from a human rights perspective.
WHO Regional Office for the Western
Pacific, 2009, 48p - ISBN: 9789290614173
www.wpro.who.int/publications/PU
B_9789290614173.htm
Guidelines for the psychosocially
assisted pharmacological
treatment of opioid dependence
These guidelines review the use of
medicines such as methadone, buprenorphine, naltrexone and clonidine in
combination with psychosocial support
in the treatment of people dependent
on opioids. Based on reviews of the
literature and using the GRADE approach
to determining evidence quality, the
guidelines contain specific recommendations on the range of issues faced in
organizing treatment systems, managing treatment programmes and in
treating people dependent on opioids.
World Health Organization, 2009,
136p - ISBN: 978-9241547543
www.who.int/substance_abuse/publi
cations/treatment/en/index.html
Methadone-associated overdose
deaths. Factors contributing to
increased deaths and efforts to
prevent them
Before the late 1990s, methadone was
used mainly to treat opioid addiction
but has since been increasingly pres-
cribed to manage pain. Taken too
often, in a too high dose, or with other
drugs or alcohol, methadone can cause
serious side effects and death. Methadone-associated overdose deaths can
occur under different scenarios, including improper dosing levels by practitioners, misuse by patients who may
combine methadone with other drugs,
or abuse - using the drug for nontherapeutic purposes. This report examines
the regulation of methadone, factors
that have contributed to the increase in
methadone-associated overdose deaths,
and steps taken to prevent them.
US Government Accountability Office
(GAO), Washington, 2009, 55 p.
www.gao.gov/new.items/d09341.pdf
The relationship between dual
diagnosis: substance misuse
and dealing with mental health
issues
This briefing examines the issues presented by service users with dual diagnosis for UK practitioners in health
and social care. It refers to the coexistence of substance misuse and
mental health problems. It considers
all age groups and uses the term 'substance' to refer to illicit drugs; alcohol;
nicotine and prescription drugs. It does
not consider specific pharmacological
treatment interventions, but focuses on
issues arising at the health and social
care interface. It draws on research
from other countries, including the US
where the majority of research on dual
diagnosis has been conducted; to provide an overview for health and social
care practitioners in the UK.
Ilana Crome, Pat Chambers, et al. Social Care Institute for Excellence,
Research briefing 30, Jan 2009, 24p.
www.scie.org.uk/publications/briefings/files/briefing30.pdf
Alcohol and cancer: best advise
While many people have a sense of
the risks of heavy drinking, and of
problems such as drinking and driving,
the link between drinking and cancer
is less familiar. Media coverage on the
protective effects that alcohol can have
on cardiovascular disease rarely mentions that alcohol consumption increases
the risk of cancer. Also, the benefits of
moderate alcohol consumption for
chronic heart disease may not be as
strong as previously reported. Changes
need to be made so that the public is
more aware that alcohol consumption
is associated with both risks and benefits. This paper focuses on alcoholrelated cancers, showing alcohol as a
risk factor for cancer of the mouth,
larynx, oesophagus, liver, breast cancer
and cancers of the colon and rectum.
Alcohol consumption has been related
to more than 60 diseases. This necessitates bringing together the research
linking alcohol consumption and cancer so that effective prevention initiatives can be planned and implemented.
Centre for Addiction & Mental Health,
March 2007, 17p
www.camh.net/Public_policy/Public
_policy_papers/index.html
Drinking in the UK:
An exploration of trends
A key part of the Government's alcohol
harm reduction strategy is to monitor
changes in drinking habits over time
and to identify what factors are potentially contributing to the rising levels
of consumption.
This study is a systematic review of
research relevant to trends in alcohol
consumption over the last 20 to 30
years in the UK. The review:
• assesses the number, types and quality of existing research studies;
• synthesises the findings to evaluate
alcohol drinking trends in the UK,
highlighting key changes;
• discusses explanations for the trends
observed, assessing what factors may
have contributed to changes;
• explores implications for policy;
• makes recommendations for future
research.
Lesley Smith & David Foxcroft Joseph Rowntree Foundation, May
2009, 112p - ISBN: 978-1859356982
www.jrf.org.uk/publications/drinking-in-the-uk
Tackling alcohol harm:
lessons from other fields
This report examines how initiatives
successfully used in other fields can
help inform new strategies for tackling
alcohol related harm. There a clear
need to change attitudes, knowledge
and behaviour relating to alcohol in
the UK.
This report presents seven case studies, each telling the story of an initiative designed to bring about attitudinal, behavioural or policy change.
This novel approach provides a unique
insight into how the application of
new thinking may help to reduce
harmful drinking patterns.
The report includes: details of approaches or initiatives that have attempted
to change attitudes and behaviours in
non-alcohol areas; examination of the
aims, theoretical rationale, methods,
targeting, processes and effectiveness
of each approach or initiative; an
account of how policy and practice
can have an impact on behaviours and
examination of lessons that can be
used to tackle alcohol harms in the UK.
Martine Stead et al. - Joseph Rowntree
Foundation, May 2009, 110p - ISBN:
978-1859356937
www.jrf.org.uk/publications/tackling-alcohol-harm
Boissons alcooliques : responsabiliser le consommateur.
Recommandations
Alcohol: making the consumer more
responsible. Recommendations
Selon des données récentes 37% de la
tranche 18-74 ans de la population
française présenteraient une consommation d'alcool à risque. Cette forte
prévalence peut être liée à la méconnaissance par le public des circonstances au cours desquelles l'alcool doit
être totalement proscrit, ainsi qu'à
l'ignorance par les consommateurs
réguliers de leur positionnement par
rapport à l'échelle des risques encourus.
Ce court texte émet deux recommandations : intensifier la diffusion des
messages précisant les circonstances
au cours desquelles toute consommation d'alcool est dangereuse et préconiser à tout consommateur régulier de
pratiquer périodiquement une autoévaluation individuelle et volontaire
des effets qu'il encourt en s'astreignant
à une journée « zéro alcool ».
Roger Nordmann - Paris, Académie de
Médecine, mai 2009, 3 p.
www.academie-medecine.fr/UserFiles/
File/nordmann_communiq_19mai_2
009.doc
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a) are more noticeable and salient than
text warnings,
b) enhance thoughts about the harms
of smoking to a greater degree,
c) are stronger in their impact on
motivating quitting among smokers.
• Editorial
• News
Glasgow Addiction
Services
• Publications
• OnlineDocs
• Agenda
Tobacco warning labels report
The report was prepared for World No
Tobacco Day (May 31, 2009) whose
theme this year is pictorial warning
labels. It concludes from longitudinal
studies of text and pictorial warnings
across many countries that graphic
pictorial warnings are more effective
than text-only warnings. Specifically,
graphic pictorial warnings:
In addition, these reactions to pictorial
warnings are associated with increased
intentions to quit and to actual quit
attempts. The findings provide compelling evidence of the effectiveness
of pictorial warnings.
International Tobacco Control Policy
Evaluation Project, May 2009, 12p.
www.itcproject.org/keyfindi
Also available on the same page:
- The France National Report (April
2009), which provides a comprehensive look into the ITC France country
project, available in both English and
French.
- Summaries on other countries (China,
Netherlands, Germany, Thailand)
Rapport sur le tabagisme
gisme public, l'éducation pour la santé
à l'école. L'Académie estime que la
politique de lutte contre le tabac est
encore insuffisante, et qu'elle nécessite
une stratégie sur le long terme.
Maurice Tubiana - Paris, Académie de
Médecine, 2009, 59 p.
www.academie-medecine.fr/UserFiles/
File/tubiana_rapp_25mai_2009.doc
Report on tobacco use
Ce rapport fait le point sur le prix du
tabac, la publicité “occulte” des marques, le tabac et la grossesse, le taba-
ICAP Papers for the WHO consultation
Ways of reducing harmful use of alcohol: contributions on behalf
of the ICAP sponsors
In May 2008, the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution that calls for
the development of a global strategy to reduce harmful alcohol use.
Following a period of stakeholder and regional consultations, the World
Health Organization (WHO) will formulate the draft strategy in 2009 and
submit it for approval to the World Health Assembly in 2010. The six
papers below are referenced versions of papers submitted on behalf of the
ICAP sponsors about key areas of reducing harmful drinking where alcohol
producers can demonstrate particular competence, legitimacy, and technical
strength and where industry input has been welcomed by WHO.
Reducing harmful drinking: industry contributions
Interventions to reduce harmful drinking can be divided into two complementary categories. One is the population-level approach to prevention,
consisting of across-the-board measures. The other approach involves interventions that are applied in a targeted way, focusing on particular groups,
behaviors, drinking patterns, or settings where the potential for harm is elevated. Industry efforts have been concentrated on targeted initiatives, which
are adaptable to the needs of diverse cultures and contexts. Alcohol producers recognize that theirs is one of the most highly regulated industries in
the world. Reasonable regulation is designed to protect consumers and
society without imposing intolerable demands on producers or restricting
individual freedom of choice. In seeking this balance, all stakeholders have
to be conscious of the need and potential for partnership. There is growing
international recognition of the importance of building and strengthening
relationships across sectors. ICAP endorse the fact that partnerships make a
significant contribution to reducing harmful drinking. Targeted interventions
exist in a range of areas in which industry members, by virtue of their involvement, resources, or expertise, have a unique contribution to make.
Brett Bivans & Marjana Martinic, International Center for Alcohol Policies
(ICAP), May 2009, 8p.
www.icap.org/Publications/ICAPPapersforWHOConsultation/tabid/157/
Default.aspx
Also available on this page:
• Alcohol production, by Ron Simpson
• Alcohol distribution, by Graeme Willersdorf
• Alcohol availability, by Adrian Botha
• Pricing of beverage alcohol, by Godfrey Robson
• Alcohol marketing, by Roger Sinclair
Somnifères et tranquillisants
La nervosité, l'agitation, l'insomnie et
les angoisses sont des phénomènes
largement répandus. Le stress et la
pression au travail ou à l'école sont
accablants pour beaucoup de personnes. Pour faire face à leurs obligations, certaines d'entre elles ont
recours à des médicaments, et peuvent
en abuser au point d'en devenir dépendantes. C'est particulièrement le cas
des somnifères et des tranquillisants.
Quels sont les effets des benzodiazépines et des substances qui leur sont
proches? Quels sont les risques d'un
usage inapproprié de ces médicaments
soumis à ordonnance médicale? Quels
sont les moyens de prévention permettant d'éviter l'abus et la dépendance?
SFA-ISPA (série Infodrogues), 2009, 4 p.
www.sfa-ispa.ch/DocUpload/id_
medicaments.pdf
Historia de las adicciones en la
España contemporánea
La historia nos invita a la reflexión.
Esto es lo que pretende Socidrogalcohol
con la publicación de este número
monográfico de su revista, dedicado a
la historia de las adicciones en España.
Se trata de un capítulo de nuestro
pasado poco conocido, pero de capital
importancia para entender la realidad
actual de las drogodependencias, pues
en nuestra historia y en nuestro acervo
cultural radican gran parte de las claves que hoy nos definen como sociedad y de los estereotipos que caracterizan nuestro imaginario colectivo en
torno a las drogas. Esta publicación no
sólo recoge la actitud social ante el
consumo de drogas y el papel de los
médicos y farmacéuticos. En cada una
de las épocas que aborda, también
repasa la postura de los poderes públicos y su reflejo en las distintas leyes
que trataron de regular los consumos
de drogas, la de los medios de comunicación, el papel de la publicidad y la
incipiente utilización - con su posterior desarrollo - de un arma tan poderosa como la prevención y los recursos preventivos y la atención a las personas drogodependientes. Estos últimos aspectos se desarrollarían gracias
a la creación del Plan Nacional sobre
Drogas.
Miguel Ángel Torres Hernández,
Joaquín Santodomingo Carrasco,
Francisco Pascual Pastor, Francesc
Freixa Santfeliu, Carlos Álvarez Vara
- Socidrogalcohol, 2009, 198p - ISBN:
978-8461289233
www.pnsd.msc.es/Categoria2/public
a/pdf/HistoriaAdicciones_EspConte
m.pdf
On the Responsible Gambling Council website:
This website offers a lot of links to online documents and articles on problem
gambling. Among the latest documents published are:
• Recovery from problem gambling: a qualitative study
• Does persistent ADHD lead to gambling problems in young adults?
• Electronic gambling machines: Influence of a clock, a cash display, and
a precommitment on gambling time
• The early bird is even earlier: predicting gambling behavior in kindergarten
• Division on addictions creates first ever public data repository and
exchange
• An evaluation of two UK online support forums designed to help people with gambling issues
www.responsiblegambling.org/en/research/documents.cfm
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Addictions in Society
21rst Elisad meeting
Agenda
• Editorial
• News
Glasgow Addiction
Services
• Publications
• OnlineDocs
• Agenda
8-10 October 2009, Budapest,
Hungary
http://2009elisadmeeting.pbwiki.com/
32nd Annual Salis Conference
April 27-30, 2010, New York City
Elisad is the European
association of libraries
& information services
on alcohol
and other drugs
For more information:
www.elisad.eu
www.addictionsinfo.eu
Journal chief editor
Anne Singer
Contributors:
Vaughan Birbeck
EMCDDA, Portugal
Christine Cather
Glasgow Addiction
Services
Christine Goodair
ICDP, Uk
Grégory Lambrette
Centre Emmanuel, Lux.
Isabelle Michot
OFDT, France
Jorunn Moen
SIRUS, Norway
Fiorenzo Ranieri
Cedostar, Italy
Jose del Val Carrasco
PND, Spain
Daniela Zardo
Gruppo Abele, Italy
Material published in
the Elisad journal
does not necessarily reflect
the views or policies
of Elisad
More information coming in late Fall 2009
www.salis.org/conference/
• 1-4 July, Porto, Portugal
5ª Conferência latina sobre redução
de riscos. Org. by APDES & IGIA
www.clat5.org/
• 12-16 July, Barrie, Ca
50th Annual Institute on Addiction
Studies. www.addictionstudies.ca/
• 7-23 Aug. 2009, Amsterdam, NL
European society for social drug
research (ESSD) Summer school
www.essd-research.eu/en/index.html
• 31 Aug.- 2 Sept., Hanasaari, Finland
Prevention of alcohol-related harm
at work-places. Institute for advanced
training in occupational health (NIVA)
www.niva.org/courses/4907_occupational_health_and_alcohol.htm
• 7-8 Sept., Zurich, Switzerland
Kokainismus: Rekreationskonsum,
Abhängigkeit, Polytoxikomanie.
Phänomene und Interventionsstrategien. Org. by Institut für Sucht- und
Gesundheitsforschung (ISGF)
www.isgf.ch
• 22-26 Sept., 2009, Calgary, Canada
XIth ISAM conference (International
Society of Addiction Medicine)
www.isamweb.org
• 22-26 Sept., Mexico
Experiencias basadas en la evidencia.
Congreso Mundial de Adicciones, org.
by Centros de Integración Juvenil
www.cij.gob.mx/CONGRESO2009/i
ndex.html
• 24-25 Sept., Zurich, Switzerland
1st International symposium on
hepatitis care in substance users.
Org. by Association for risk reduction
in use of drugs (ARUD)
www.arud.ch/symposium/index.htm
• 24-26 Sept., 2009, Belfast, UK
20th annual conf. of the European
society for social drug research (ESSD)
www.essd-research.eu/en/index.html
• 29-31 Oct., Jersey City, USA
The future of addiction education,
practice and research. Organised by
INCASE
http://incase-edu.net/annualconference.aspx
• 24-27 Sept., Trieste, Italy
ISAGE (International Society of Addiction journal Editors) Annual Meeting
www.parint.org/isajewebsite/meetings2009.htm
• 1-4 Nov., Montréal, Canada
6th National Conference on Tobacco
or Health. Organised by the Canadian
Council for Tobacco Control (CCTC)
www.ncth.ca/
• 1-2 Oct., Mebourne, Australia
The Australian drugs conference Drugs in hard times
www.australiandrugsconference.org.
au/
• 11-14 Nov., Albuquerque, USA
The International Drug Policy
Reform Conference. Organised by
the Drug Policy Alliance
www.drugpolicyevent.com/
5-7 Oct., Ljubljana, Slovenia
5th European Association of Addiction
Therapy Conference
www.eaat.org/
• 13 Nov., Bristol, UK
Youth, alcohol & crime. Problems &
Effective Responses. International
conference organised by Alcohol &
health research unit at the University
of the West of England
http://hsc.uwe.ac.uk/net/research/De
fault.aspx?pageid=582
• 11-16 0ct. 2009, Estoril, Portugal
Shaping the future - A multisectorial
challenge. 52nd International ICAA
(International council on alcohol and
addictions) conference on dependencies
www.icaa.ch/ICAA_Estoril_2009.html
• 13-16 Oct., Biarritz, France
Colloque européen et international :
toxicomanies, hépatites, Sida. Org.
par Bizia, SETHS et Munduko Medikuak (Bilbao).
www.ths-biarritz.com/
• 16-18 Nov., Manchester, UK
11th International hepatitis C conference. Organised by Mainliners
www.hepc09.org.uk/
• 3-4 Dec., Coimbra, Portugal
Public policies. Experiences
exchange in interagency cooperation.
Organised by Eulac Group 1
www.eulacdrugs.org/eulac/eulac
• 22-23 oct., 2009, Paris, France
Alcool, addictions et travail. Org. par
la Société Française d'Alcoologie (SFA)
www.sfalcoologie.asso.fr/
• 21-24 Feb. 2010, Nashville, USA
Southeast Conference on Addictive
Disorders (Secad). Organised by
Vendome Group and Naatp & Naadac
www.secad10.com/
• 26-27 Oct., Glasgow, UK
National (UK) conference on injecting
drug use. Org. Exchange Supplies
www.exchangesupplies.org/
• 25-29 April, Liverpool, UK
IHRA's 21st International Conference
www.ihra.net/
• 29-31 Oct., Madrid Spain
What works in the prevention and
control of major communicable
diseases in prison. International
conference on Prison health protection,
organised by the World Health
Organization, and others (EMCDDA...)
www.prisonhealthconference2009.com
• 22-26 Aug. 2010, Oslo, Norway
International conference on alcohol,
drugs, and traffic safety
www.t2010.org/
• 13-16 Sept., 2010, Paris, France
Current topics and innovations in
alcohol research. 2010 ISBRA World
Congress & Rencontre nationale de la
Société Française d'Alcoologie (SFA)
www.isbra2010paris.org/

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