...Emma Smith; Melody Carter; Elaine Walklet; Paul Hazell Purpose This paper aims to explore how enforced forms of social isolation arising from the first COVID-19 lockdown influenced experiences of problem substance use, relapse and coping strategies for recovery in individuals engaging with harm...

...Helen Gleeson; Karen Duke; Betsy Thom Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how substance use practitioners intervene with ethnically and culturally diverse groups of young people in contact with the youth justice system. Design/methodology/approach Telephone, face-to-face interviews...

...Niki Kiepek; Jonathan Harris; Brenda Beagan; Marisa Buchanan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the prevalence and patterns of substance use among Canadian social workers. With legalisation of can professional regulatory bodies are pressed to consider implications of substance use...

... Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Relationship Outcomes Risk Practitioner Substance use Low threshold As in many other jurisdictions, drug policy and intervention in Ireland has undergone a significant range of changes and developments over...

...Wulf Livingston; Andrew Perkins Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore a range of key deliberations with regards to adopting participatory action research (PAR) and privileged access interviewer (PAI) approaches and methodologies within research on substance use. Design/methodology...

... and academic researchers. It reports analysis of reflections on experience as the different partners explore and evaluate their own experiences of co-productive research within the context of substance use recovery co-production research. Design/methodology/approach The research uses reflexive data from...

...@dmu.ac.uk Risk factors Cannabis Substance use Adolescents Marijuana Abstention Cannabis is the most widely used illicit drug and it comes third in popularity to alcohol and tobacco (EMCDDA, 2012). It has been identified as one of the first illicit drugs to be used by young people, with onset...

... drinking and binge drinking. Separate results covering 15 different drugs are presented. 20 08 2015 22 09 2015 24 09 2015 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Emerald Group Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Switzerland Substance use Alcohol abstinence...

...Polly Radcliffe and Charlotte Tompkins; Nigel Cox; Amanda Clayson; Lucy Webb Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop further the understanding of co-productive methodological practice for substance use research by demonstrating the use of a mobile, multimedia interviewing aid by members...

... followed at three and six months post‐treatment. The psychoeducation for personality disorder did not result in improved functioning. Significant differences indicated a larger drop in substance use in the experimental group. Assessing personality disorders and providing psychoeducation is a promising...