This article describes the frequency of co‐morbid substance use and mental health
problems of young people within the youth justice system and demonstrates that mental …

One of the challenges for services in the UK has been how best to meet the needs of those
people who experience severe mental health problems and use drugs and alcohol …

This paper aims to provide an overview of drug and alcohol issues and their management in
Australia. Overall, Australia has good health relative to the United States and other similar …

Addiction research in the UK has a long and distinguished history. Over the past 25 years
seminal contributions have been made. These include description of the dependence …

Among Australians use of alcohol and other drugs is almost ubiquitous and results in 13% of
total morbidity, but clinicians generally receive limited training in diagnosis and …

Alcohol and other drug (AOD) treatment policy is at a significant point of transition in
Australia. The media is replete with examples of people unable to access appropriate AOD …

There are significant differences in approaches to the training of psychiatrists in developed
and developing countries. In the latter, with acute shortages of manpower in psychiatry and …

Some of the problems encountered while setting up rehabilitation services in Australia
include finance, breakdown between directors and management, shortage of trained …

Objective: The drug and alcohol related knowledge and attitudes of trainee psychiatrists
were examined to obtain a baseline measure of these factors in order to determine whether …

There has been increasing concern in England regarding the neglect of alcohol treatment in
favour of treatment for illicit drug users (especially offenders). The project sought to obtain …