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Toward a Syndrome Model of Addiction: Multiple Expressions, Common Etiology
No CommentsIt is common for clinicians, researchers, and public policy makers to describe certain drugs or objects (e.g., games of chance) as “addictive,” tacitly implying that the cause of addiction resides in the properties of drugs or other objects. Conventional wisdom encourages this view by treating different excessive behaviors, such as alcohol dependence and pathological gambling, as distinct disorders. Evidence supporting a broader conceptualization of addiction is emerging.
Trends in UK deaths associated with abuse of volatile substances, 1971-2008
No CommentsThis is the twenty-third annual report of the Volatile Substance Abuse (VSA) Mortality Project, and has been produced by the International Centre for Drug Policy (ICDP) based at St. George’s, University of London.
This report outlines the current trends, examines the nature of the problems, and identifies the factors associated with deaths from abuse of volatile substances occurring in the United Kingdom in 2008.
A Grounded Theory of Detoxification-Seeking Among Heroin Users in South East Ireland
No CommentsThis study explores a central phenomenon of detoxification-seeking among heroin users in the South East of Ireland, through a grounded theory approach.
The study conceptualises detoxification-seeking as a help-seeking behaviour, experienced by heroin users, but not all, in response to and as a consequence of the complex experience of being heroin dependent, and wanting to become abstinent. The core category, ‘forging a pathway towards abstinence from heroin’, provides an insight into challenges and tasks that research participants undertook when their aim was abstinence.
Toward a Syndrome Model of Addiction: Multiple Expressions, Common Etiology
No CommentsIt is common for clinicians, researchers, and public policy makers to describe certain drugs or objects (e.g., games of chance) as “addictive,” tacitly implying that the cause of addiction resides in the properties of drugs or other objects. Conventional wisdom encourages this view by treating different excessive behaviors, such as alcohol dependence and pathological gambling, as distinct disorders. Evidence supporting a broader conceptualization of addiction is emerging.
National Drugs Confernce of Ireland 2010
No CommentsThis feature focuses on to the upcoming National Drugs Conference which will be held in The Radisson Blu Royal Hotel Golden Lane, Dublin 8, 4th & 5th November, 2010.
One of the conference organisers, Tim Bingham, from Co. Kerry, discusses the upcoming conference with drugs.ie. In doing so, Tim provides some general insights into the conference and also shares some of the hopes and visions that a conference of this nature can aspire to.
