Substance Abuse Treatment

Basic aspects and research
1. Is addiction a chronic relapsing disease?
Martien Kooyman
2. In it for the long haul: recovery capital, addiction theory and the inter-generational transmission of addictive behaviour
Rowdy Yates
3. Self-Medication and addictions
Miquel Casas
4. Promoting Best Practice in the drug addiction fi eld: the EMCDDA experience
Marica Ferri
5. Chronobiology and addiction: implications for treatment and prevention
Ana Adan
Sex differences
6. Biological bases of sex diff erences in drug addiction
Marta Torrens
7. Female polydrug abuse and psychopathology - Gender diff erences: an overview
Edle Ravndal
8. The impact of motherhood on recovery - Lessons we can learn from the treatment journeys of mothers with problematic substance misuse issues
Karen Biggs
Therapeutic communities
9. Quality of life in therapeutic communities for substance abuse
Eric Broekaert
10. The essential elements of treatment: a European therapeutic communities perspective
Ilse Goethals
11. MECETT, the journeymen model transferred to staff training in TC's
George van der Straten
12. The reasons for the rise and fall of the Bremberg empire
Vera Segraeus
Social and politic factors
13. The United Nations and drug demand reduction policies
Xavier Fernández-Pons
14. Factors for eff ective long-term recovery: risk and challenges during the economic crisis in Greece
Charalampos Poulopoulos
15. Getting regular, early and brief alcohol interventions into primary care in rural New South Wales: the origins of the Murdi Paaki Drug and Alcohol Network
Rod MacQueen
16. Social exclusion and immigration: new patterns of drug use among young marginal migrants
Núria Empez
17. Politics and ethics for a journal editor
Richard Pates