The ground-breaking Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE ) study demonstrated a clear correlation between childhood trauma (including parental substance misuse) and later ill-health – not least addiction. Ace in the hole (PDF) Additional keywords: parents / children / treatment outcomes
Tag Archive for reasons for drug use
Druglink article 2014 – Deals on wheels by Max Daly
The number of older recreational drug users appears to be on the rise. But who are they and why are they still taking drugs? Deals on wheels (PDF)
Druglink article 1999 – Outside society: drugs and social exclusion by Deborah Allen
Over the last 20 years or so a growing body of evidence has shown links between drugs and social exclusion – some are direct, others subtle. Identifying the links could be the start of eliminating them Outside society: drugs and…
Druglink article 2014 – Cultural shifts by Max Daly
Stereotypes of Asian substance use probably assume heroin to be the main problem drug. But is this an outdated view? Max Daly speaks to those on the frontline. Britain’s Asian population has always had a reputation as the least likely ethnic group to take…
Druglink article 1999 – Hit or miss? by Jude
For a creative environment where you need to earn a living, it doesn’t come much tougher than the music business. Jude describes fighting the demons in your head and across the studio floor. Hit or miss? (PDF)
Druglink article 1998 – Remember me? by Gary Sutton
Here Gary Sutton gives us the drug user’s perspective and warns against over-zealous nannying: addicts are people, and no one can force them to ‘come to terms’ with their reasons for using or think that stopping drugs stops the hurt.…
Druglink article 1998 – From Johnny B to Ebeneezer: Goode times on the dance floor by Rowdy Yates and Oswin Baker
If you’re looking for an explanation for drug use, you can’t go far wrong with culture. And the culture of the last 30 years has been lead by the amp, the guitar and the drum kit. From the psychedelic tripping…
Druglink supplement 1998 – Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) Drug misuse and the environment: a summary
The ACMD has produced this report because it feels that the world in which individual lives has been neglected when considering how to tackle drug misuse. Efforts have tended to concentrate on enforcement and treatment of the individual rather than…
Druglink article 1998 – Abuse and misuse: the ultimate hidden population by Jane Wilson
For a number of years, workers in the addiction field have noted that a growing number of their clients are ‘addicted survivors’. The association between adult substance misuse and childhood sexual abuse is increasingly being documented. Abuse and misuse: the…
Druglink article 1998 – Onion rings to go: social exclusion and addiction by Mark Gilman
A couple of years ago, it was a term used only by European bureaucrats and sociologists. But with the formation of its very own unit within government, the imminent publication of the ACMD’s report on drugs and the environment and…