Alcohol & Substance Abuse

I've tried to gather some relevant resources here, for those of you writing on this topic. As a starting point, the World Health Organization's website has a dedicated page containing a range of resources, which include publications including:

• The health and social effects of nonmedical cannabis use
• Community management of opioid overdose
• Global strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol
• This article explores the impact that alcohol consumption can have on young people. 

Numerous Government publications have been produced, here are the most current. There are several organisations that regularly publish research in this area: the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) provide current overviews of drug problems in Europe - the United Kingdom Drug Situation report is a publication submitted to the EMCDDA annually; Public Health England provides a list of articles, publications and statistics; the ONS have datasets on drug misuse and drinking habits in Great Britain; statistics have also been made available by the HSCIC on drugs misuse and alcohol abuse. 

The following related books are available in the library:

• Substance misuse : the implications of research, policy and practice - 362.29 BAR
• A-Z of substance misuse & drug addiction - 362.29 MAC 
• Understanding & working with substance misusers - 362.29 PYC 
• Drugs - 362.290941 ACR (Available in E-Resources: Isssues Online)
• Motivational interviewing and stages of change : integrating best practices for substance abuse professionals - 362.291 TOM 
• Getting wise to drugs - 372.37044 EMM 
• Emerging perspectives on substance misuse - 616.86 MIS 
• Applied cognitive and behavioural approaches to the treatment of addiction - 616.86 MIT 
• Theory of addiction - 616.86 WES 

In E-Resources (portal), try individual searches in CareKnowledge, SocIndex and Issues Online.

Hope this helps! If you do require anything further information, please contact 

Manjeet Dhillon.

What About YOUth?

The new Health Behaviours in Young People (What About YOUth?) Tool provides local authority level estimates for several topic areas, based on what 15-year olds themselves said about their attitudes to healthy lifestyles and risky behaviours, including diet and physical activity, smoking, alcohol, use of drugs, bullying and wellbeing. For each topic area, the information is shown by ethnicity, deprivation, sexuality, region and local authority. The data is based on the What About YOUth 2014 survey.