... was to improve outcomes for clients with dual diagnosis (co-occurring mental health and substance misuse) issues. The purpose of the change in working practice was to engage with local substance misuse agencies more effectively to improve clinical outcomes within this service user group. This was achieved...

...Linda Bell; Rachel Herring; Fizz Annand Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the following research questions from the available literature: What evidence is there to suggest that substance misuse specifically by fathers (including alcohol and other drugs) causes wider harms, including...

... professional groups. The emerging picture, that until then had not been recognised or reported, revealed criminogenic features relating to: Substance misuse Offending behaviour Crime Sexual crime Criminal justice system Chemsex The title of this paper is a statement made by a man at the end...

... utilising a self-completion online questionnaire. Data were collected from substance misuse workers across England and Wales. In total, 165 responses were eligible for analysis, yielding a response rate of 5 per cent. Burnout and somatization were measured with Maslach’s Burnout Inventory and the Physical...

...Polly Radcliffe and Charlotte Tompkins; Martin Whiteford; Will Haydock; Nicky Cleave Purpose – As UK substance misuse policy has increasingly focused on the concept of recovery, policymakers, service providers and service users have found “recovery capital” a useful concept to understand...

...Polly Radcliffe and Charlotte Tompkins; Hannah Timpson; Lindsay Eckley; Harry Sumnall; Marissa Pendlebury; Gordon Hay Purpose – Recovery is a central component of UK substance misuse policy, however, relatively little is known about the views and meanings of recovery by those experiencing...

...Polly Radcliffe and Charlotte Tompkins; Sarah Senker; Gill Green Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to critically regard the concept of recovery from the perspective of substance misusing offenders. It intended to understand how these individuals came to define recovery by asking “what does...

... benefits. For successful adoption and implementation of such innovations, changes in the social system are required, at organisational and individual levels. Practical implications – The learning points from this study may be relevant to the substance misuse sector, and more widely to criminal...

...Christos Kouimtsidis; Daniel Stahl; Robert West; Colin Drummond Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the substance misuse literature on how outcome expectancies are measured, how they are related with the level of use and other factors as well as their role into treatment and recovery...

... Gillian Tober can be contacted at: gillian.tober@nhs.net © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Collaboration Aftercare Co-production Drugs Alcohol Substance misuse The “Recovery Agenda” (National Treatment Agency, 2012) is driving both mental illness and substance misuse...

.... It is a valuable starting point for anyone who wants to understand PbR and its wider implications. It also provides practical information for commissioners and providers who are interested in what PbR will look like in practice. Payment by results Drugs Alcohol Substance misuse Treatment Outcomes Mental...

... health service from 2013. Design/methodology/approach It is argued that this is a critical moment in the development of substance misuse services in England, particularly given the impact of health service reform. Concerns are raised about the lack of reference to drug and alcohol treatment in key...

... are considering PbR Chris Fox can be contacted at: c.fox@mmu.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Alcohol treatment requirement Break even Payment by results National Health Service Substance misuse This paper reports on a project to estimate the costs and benefits...

... Personality traits Coping Substance misuse Substance misuse: the relationship between attachment styles, personality traits and coping in drug and non-drug users Sarah Davidson School of Psychology, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK Carol A Ireland Psychological Services, Ashworth Hospital...

...Jane Askey Dual diagnosis (DD) has become a challenging therapeutic issue of our time. As a substance misuse practitioner, I, like many of my colleagues have often been frustrated with the difficulties that service users face in trying to address their issues, often being bounced between services...

... Nursing Alcohol Drugs Substance misuse Addiction DEBATE Alcohol and other drug use issues in Australia: no place to hide Charlotte de Crespigny RN; PhD; GRAD. Dip PHC (Addictions); FRCNA Professor of Nursing (Alcohol and Other Drugs) School of Nursing and Midwifery Flinders University, Adelaide...