Background People experiencing homelessness have higher rates of problematic
substance use but difficulty engaging with treatment services. There is limited evidence …

Background With drug-related deaths at record levels in the UK, the government faces two
potential sources of pressure to implement more effective policies. One source is the …

The concept of vulnerability is now deeply embedded in English drug policy, influential in
governing practices such as prevention and treatment activity but yet to be subject to critical …

Background The concept of recovery has increasingly become an organizing paradigm in
the addiction field in the past 20 years, but definitions of the term vary amongst interested …

As personalization has dominated the policy agenda for reform in social care, its roll‐out as
a mainstream option has coincided with global programmes of austerity which have targeted …

Background It is increasingly accepted that a view of policy as a rational process of fitting
evidence-based means to rationally justified ends is inadequate for understanding the …

Conversations about rehabilitation and how to address the drugs-crime nexus have been
dominated by academics and policymakers, without due recognition of the experience and …

Problematic substance use (PSU) in later life is a growing global problem of significant
concern in tandem with a rapidly ageing global population. Prevention and interventions …

Aim To understand how the social networks of a new recovery community can help sustain
recovery, focusing on processes of social identity change, in the context of the wider UK …

Care-giver substance abuse (SA) represents one of the most common reasons for entering
the child welfare system in the USA with families and children for whom substance abuse is …