Drug Use and Misuse

Overview of the Use and Misuse of Drugs; Addiction: A Challenge to Society; Patterns of Drug Taking in Britain; Is Alcoholism a Disease?; Heroin Now: Bringing it all Back Home; Findings of a National Survey of the Role of General Practitioners in the Treatment of Opiate Misuse; Drug Abuse Briefing; Understanding Drug Use; The Infective Complications of Drug Misuse; Benzodiazepine Withdrawl; Unemployment and Illegal Drug Use; Concordant Evidence from a Prospective Study and National Trends; Becoming a Heroin User and Heroin Using Careers; Alcohol Problems and the Family; Becoming a Marijuana User; Smoking in Pregnancy: The Attitudes of Expectant Mothers; Historical and Political Perspective: Women and Drug Use; Taking Care of Business - the Heroin User's Life on the Street; Tackling Drug Misuse: A Summary of the Government's Strategy, 2nd Edition; British Drug Policies in the 1980's; Can a War on Drugs Succeed?; The Rise and Fall of the Solvents Panic; Misuse of Drugs Act; Drink and Political Economy; Treatment and Change; Community Initiatives in Drug Treatment; Some Practical Approaches to the Problem Drug Taker; Recognition and Treatment of Alcohol-Related Disorders; Tranquilisers: Current Concerns and Treatment Practice; Preventing Drug Problems; Approaches to Prevention from Grass Roots to Campaigns: Implications for Health Educators.