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Addiction
is a prestigious monthly international peer-reviewed
journal. In continuous publication since the Society
was founded in 1884, it features original research on
alcohol, illicit drugs and tobacco.
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 Addiction
Biology
As a quarterly sister journal
to Addiction, Addiction Biology covers all biomedical
aspects of alcohol, tobacco and substance abuse and
toxicity.
It includes clinical and
experimental research in the biochemical, clinical,
genetic, metabolic, nutritional, pathological and toxicological
aspects of all potentially abused agents.
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International Research Monographs in the
Addictions (IRMA)
Published by Cambridge University Press, in
association with the SSA, the volumes in this monograph series
present research from major centres around the world on the
basic sciences, both biological and behavioural, that have
a bearing on the addictions, and also address the clinical
and public health applications of such research. The series
will cover alcohol, illicit drugs, psychotropics, and tobacco,
and is intended as an important resource for clinicians, researchers
and policymakers.
Circles of Recovery
Self-help Organizations for Addictions
 Keith
Humphreys
£55.00
October 2003 | Hardback | 238 pages | ISBN:
0521792770
Self-help organizations across the world, such
as Alcoholics Anonymous, Croix D’Or, The Links, Moderation
Management, Narcotics Anonymous, and SMART Recovery, have
attracted tens of millions of individuals seeking to address
addiction problems with drugs or alcohol. For the first time,
this book provides an integrative, international review of
research on these organizations, focusing in particular on
the critical questions of how they affect individual members
and whether self-help groups and formal health care systems
can work together to combat substance abuse. Keith Humphreys
reviews over 500 studies into the efficacy of self-help groups
as an alternative and voluntary form of treatment. In addition
to offering a critical, state-of-the-art review of the international
body of research in this area, he provides practical strategies
for how individual clinicians and treatment systems can interact
with self-help organizations in a way that improves outcomes
for patients and for communities as a whole.
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A Community Reinforcement Approach to Addiction
Treatment
 Edited
by Robert J. Meyers, William R. Miller
£49.95
August 2001 | Hardback | 202 pages 17 line diagrams
12 tables | ISBN: 0521771072
The community reinforcement approach (CRA) to
treating alcohol and other drug problems is designed to make
changes in the client's daily environment, to reduce substance
abuse and promote a healthier lifestyle. It is of proven effectiveness,
and should be more widely used. This is the first book to
present research on the effectiveness of the CRA for a clinical
readership. It includes the original study comparing CRA with
traditional treatments of alcohol dependence, and summarizes
other trials with alcohol, cocaine and heroin users. The CRA
program provides basic guidelines for clinicians, focusing
oncommunication skills, problem solving and drink refusal
strategies, and addresses the needs of the client as part
of a social community.
Combining practical advice on such matters with
a scientific survey of CRA in use, this book offers a new
treatment approach to all involved with the support and treatment
of those with alcohol and drug problems.
Contributors
Robert J. Meyers, Mark D. Godley, Erica J. Miller, William
R. Miller, J.Scott Tonigan, Kathryn A. Grant, Jane Ellen Smith,
Harold Delaney,
Stephen T. Higgins, Patrick Abbott
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 Treatment
Matching in Alcoholism
Edited by Thomas Babor, Frances Del Boca
£55.00
November 2002 | Hardback | 292 pages 16 tables
20 figures | ISBN: 0521651123
available from December 2002
Project MATCH was a large-scale treatment evaluation
study established by the U.S. National Institute on Alcohol
Abuse to determine whether the treatment of alcoholism could
be improved by matching different types of alcoholics with
the most appropriate kinds of treatment. This book, edited
by the two principal investigators, is the first comprehensive
report of Project MATCH, the largest treatment study ever
conducted with alcoholics. It describes the rationale, methods,
results and implications of the study, and presents new findings
about how treatment works, for whom it is most effective,
and who does best in different kinds of treatment. It also
offers some of the first scientific evidence on the effectiveness
of Alcoholics Anonymous. The audience for this book is broad,
including researchers, clinicians and policy makers in the
field of alcoholism and addiction.
Contributors
John P. Allen, Thomas F. Babor, Margaret E. Mattson, Ronald
M. Kadden,
Frances K. Del Boca, Richard Fuller, Gerard J. Connors, William
R.
Miller, Raymond F. Anton, J. Scott Tonigan, Dennis M. Donovan,
Kathleen
M. Carroll, Carlo D. DiClemente, Bruce J. Rounsaville, Allen
Zweben,
Bonnie McRee, Richard Longabaugh, Philip W. Wirtz, Robert
Stout, Joseph
Carbonari, Robert Rychtarik, Mark D. Litt, Ned L. Cooney,
Carrie
Randall, Karen Steinberg, Ron Cisler
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Cannabis and Cognitive Functioning,
by Nadia Solowij
ISBN 0-521-59114-7 (1998) Hardback, 290pp
Is the cognitive function of long-term regular cannabis users
impaired, and if so, what is the nature of this impairment?
Cannabis is the most widely used illicit substance in the
world, with estimates of between 12 and 20 million current
users in the USA alone, but the question of whether long-term
use of the drug can result in lasting and irreparable cognitive
impairment remains controversial. This timely and well-argued
volume provides and extensive and comprehensive review of
the literature relevant to cannabis and cognitive functioning,
examining the evidence in the light of important recent findings
on the pharmacology and neuropsychology of cannabis.
A series of original studies conducted by the author are presented,
utilizing one of the most modern and sensitive tools available
to assess cognitive functioning – brain event-related
potentials or ERPs – and the findings from these and
other recent studies are integrated. Solowij’s conclusion,
that long-term cannabis use produces subtle but enduring impairment
in the memory, attention and the organization and integration
of complex information, will be of compelling interest to
a wide range of clinicians, researchers and policy makers.
Alcohol and the Community: A Systems Approach
to Prevention
by Harold D. Holder
ISBN 0-521-59187-2 (1998) Hardback, 183pp
An individual’s decision to use alcohol and the frequency,
quantity, and situation of such use are the result of a combination
of biological and social factors. Drinking is not only a personal
choice, but is also a matter of custom and social behaviour,
and is influenced by access and economic factors including
levels of disposable income and cost of alcohol beverages.
Until prevention efforts cease to focus narrowly on the individual
and begin to adopt broader community perspectives on alcohol
problems and strategies to reduce them, these efforts will
fail. The author challenges the current implicit models used
in alcohol problem prevention and demonstrates an ecological
perspective of the community as a complex adaptive system
composed of interacting subsystems, an appreciation and understanding
of which offers a new approach to the prevention of alcohol
dependence and alcohol related problems.
Click here
for the Cambridge University Press Homepage to access further
information and to order copies online here
CALL FOR AUTHORS
HAVE YOU CONSIDERED CONTRIBUTING TO THE IRMA
SERIES?
IRMA will serve the scientific community by
providing a publishing opportunity for established and younger
researchers. We are glad to give help to authors wishing to
work up a PhD thesis toward monograph form.
The emphasis is on original research, but some of the material
may have been published already in journal articles. IRMA
gives researchers an opportunity to bring separate outputs
within a coherent whole.
This is a research monograph series, but we expect each volume
also to contain a substantial review content and, where appropriate,
to explore clinical and policy applications of the research.
All submissions are peer reviewed, and the series will maintain
the highest standards.
IRMA is committed to being very interactive within the field
and welcomes discussion with potential contributors, whether
their ideas are at a tentative or more forward stage of development.
Contact:
Editor-in-Chief, Griffith Edwards, National Addiction Centre,
4 Windsor Walk, London SE5 8AF, UK.
Tel: + 44 (0)171 919 3452
Fax: + 44 (0)171 703 5787
Tobacco and Jobs
By David Buck, Christine
Godfrey, Martin Raw and Matthew Sutton
ISBN 0-9525601-0-0 (1995), Paperback, 34pp
This report, jointly published by the SSA and the Centre for
Health Economics in York, assesses the economic significance,
in terms of employment, of the tobacco industry to the UK
economy. Government figures show that from 1970 to 1991 the
number of people employed in tobacco manufacturing has fallen
from about 40,000 to 12,000 (about 0.05% of total jobs). Industry
sponsored studies suggest that far greater numbers are involved
in supplying goods and services to the tobacco industry and
distributing and selling tobacco products. However, if tobacco
consumption continues to fall these jobs will not all be lost.
The reason is that when consumers spend less on tobacco they
tend to spend the money on other products instead. The money
is not lost to the economy. Given that the industries that
make these other products will require other industries to
supply them, and that these products also will have to be
distributed and sold, jobs in alternative industries will
be created. Since tobacco manufacturing is now so capital
intensive, a higher total number of jobs may result. This
is what the authors have investigated in this study.
This study takes data from 1990, the base year for the UK
Government’s Health of the Nation target for a 40% reduction
in smoking, and looks at what would happen to employment if
consumption was reduced by 40%. The study used data on spending
patterns to look at different ways in which smokers who stop
might re-allocate their released tobacco expenditure. It also
simulates two possible government reactions to reduced tobacco
tax revenue. Most of these simulations show that a reduction
in spending on tobacco would result in a net overall increase
in jobs in the UK. Under the assumptions the authors believe
are most reasonable there would be an overall increase of
about 150,000 jobs.
These results suggest that current policies aimed at reducing
smoking-related disease and deaths may also benefit the economy
by creating more jobs. Whilst employment is naturally not
a primary focus of The Health of the Nation, it is fortunate
and reassuring to discover that government health policies
are also good for employment.
Full copies of this report can be order from:
Publications Office
Centre for Health Economics
University of York
York YO1 5DD
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