All Resources for 'Justice Systems'

Systematic Review: Efficacy and Safety of Medical Marijuana in Selected Neurologic Disorders

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Public Health

ABSTRACT

Objective: To determine the efficacy of medical marijuana in several neurologic conditions.

Methods: We performed a systematic review of medical marijuana (1948–November 2013) to address treatment of symptoms of multiple...

The Punjabi Problem: Drug Use in One of India’s Wealthiest Regions

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News
Themes
Addiction
Populations
Family
Men
Law Enforcement
Border Control

 

According to the BBC, a recent government-conducted investigation suggests that more than 860,000 young men (15 – 35) in the Punjab region of India take drugs. This is three times the national average. Heroin is used by 53% of all...

Whole Family Recovery

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Book
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Recovery Support
Addiction
Populations
Family
Public Health
Partner Organisation

This document provides an overview of themes that emerged from the Adfam’s Whole Family Recovery and Alcohol Focus Groups and interviews. This research was conducted to scope the impacts of the recovery of someone with an alcohol problem on...

Adfam’s Manifesto for Families: 5 Key Challenges for Supporting Families Affected by Drug and Alcohol Use

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Book
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Prevention
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Populations
Family
Public Health
Policy

“You don’t have to use drugs to be affected by them.”

In 2010 Adfam identified five key challenges for families that the Government should address, identified by stakeholders across England. They were:

  • Supporting families in their own...

Supporting Families Affected by Substance Use and Domestic Violence

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Book
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Addiction
Populations
Family
Public Health
Policy
Partner Organisation

This research report analyses how domestic violence and abuse is more likely than not to occur within intimate partner relationships where one partner has a problem with alcohol or drugs. The aims of this research project were:

  • To...

Medications in Drug Treatment – Tackling the Risks to Children

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Book
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Public Health

This report examines cases where children have died or come to harm from ingesting Opioid Substitution Treatment (OST) medicines prescribed to help people overcome drug addiction. There have been 17 Serious Case Reviews involving the...

Becoming Visible: The Somali Community and Substance Use in London

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Book
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Populations
Family
Public Health
Policy
Partner Organisation

In 2006 Adfam was awarded a three year grant by the Department for Communities and Local Government to work with the Somali community around substance use and family support in London.  Becoming visible gives an overview of the issues...

Medications in Drug Treatment: Tackling the Risks to Children – One Year on

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Book
Themes
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Populations
Family
Public Health
Partner Organisation

This ‘One Year On’ report expands upon the findings and recommendations of Adfam’s Medications in Drug Treatment: Tackling the risks to children, published in 2014, and further contributes to the debate on reducing the risks to children...

Challenging Stigma: Tackling the Prejudice Experienced by Families of Drug and Alcohol Users

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Book
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Populations
Family
Public Health
Policy
Partner Organisation

Stigma and drug use have been associated for a long time, and in recent years they have been popular topics of debate and the focus of a growing body of research. But in the same way that families have often been absent in other drug policy...

Families, Drugs and Alcohol - Policy and Research since 1984

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Book
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Addiction
Populations
Family
Public Health
Policy

The past 30 years has seen a huge amount of change in the policy, practice and politics around both families and drug/alcohol (‘substance’) use. Laws, behaviours and public perceptions have all altered substantially. As part of Adfam’s 30th...