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Drugs: education, prevention and policy Contents of Volume 11, 2004 COCIRDINATINC: KDITOR: Betsy Thom School of Health and Social Sciences, Middlesex University, Queensway, Enfield EN3 4SF, UK Tel: +44 (0)20 8411 5519; Fax: +44 (0)20 8411 5440; e-mail: [email protected] JOI RNAI, ADMINISTR.ATOR.- Hannah DeSouza School of Health and Social Sciences, Middlesex University, Queensway, Enfield EN3 4SF, UK e-mail: [email protected] editors: liana Crome Keele University, UK Karen Duke Middlesex .University, London, UK John Foster Middlesex University, London, UK Richard Ives EducaRi, Kettlestone, Norfolk, UK Shane Butler Trinity College, Dublin, EIRE IN rERN.ATIONAl, EDITORIAL BOARD: Moruf L. Adelekan, University of florin, Moira Kelly, Queen Mary and Westfield Nigeria College, London, UK Gelissa Bagnali, West of Scotland Education Charlie Lloyd, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Board, Glasgow, UK York, UK Etelvina Barros, UNAIDS-Brazil, Brazilia, Dave Macdonald, UNDCP, Afghanistan Brazil Susanne MacGregor, Middlesex University, Philip Bean, Loughborough University, UK Enfield, UK Shane Butler, Department of Social Studies, Alojz Nodar, Board of Ministers for Drug Trinity College, Dublin, Eire Dependencies and Drug Control, Bratislava, Fabio Caldas de Mesquita, lEPAS, Sao Paulo, Slovakia Brazil Howard Parker, SPARC, University of Niall Coggans, University of Strathclyde, Manchester, UK Glasgow, UK Augusto Perez-Gomez, Universidad de los Nick Crofts, The Macfarlane Burnet Center for Andes, Colombia Medical Research, Victoria, Australia Teresa Salvador-Llivina, Centro de Estudios Cindy Fazey, University of Liverpool, UK Sobre Promocion de la Salud (CEPS), Christine Franey, The Centre for Research Spain on Drugs and Health Behaviour, London, Grazyna Swiatkiewicz, Institute of Psychiatry UK and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland Paul Griffiths, UNDCP, Vienna, Austria Keith Tones, Leeds, UK '• Rachel Herring, School of Health and Social Richard Velleman, University of Bath, Sciences, Middlesex University, Enfield, UK UK Tay Bian How, Drug Advisory Programme, David Watts, Drug & Alcohol Services Council, Sri Lanka Adelaide, Australia AIMS AND scope: Drugs: education, prevention and policy is a refereed journal which publishes multi-disciplinary research papers, commentaries and reviews on policy, prevention and harm reduction issues regarding the use and misuse of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs. The journal provides a forum for communication and debate between policy makers, practitioners and researchers concerned with social and health policy responses to legal and illicit drug use and drug-related harm. It is journal policy to encourage submissions which reflect different cultural, historical and theorehcal approaches to the development of policy and practice. Contents Volume 11 Number 1 February 2004 Articles Adoption of Tobacco Treatment Interventions by Substance-abuse- treatment Clinicians Karen B. Friend & David T. Levy , Serving Alcohol at Home: what do most people do? Findings from a 2001 Ontario adult survey Lise Anglin, Norman Giesbrecht, Anca lalomiteanu, Larry Grand, Robert Mann & Janet McAllister Substance-misusers' Anxiety and Traumatic Event Prevalence George Christo & Camilla Morris Drug Issues Affecting Chinese, Indian and Pakistani People Living in Greater Glasgow A. }. Ross, D. Heim, N. Bakshi, ]. B. Davies, K. ]. FJatley & S. C. Hunter How 'Cool' is Heroin Injection at the Kenya Coast Susan Beckerleg Recent Cocaine and Crack Use Among New Drug Treatment Clients in Scotland Joanne Neale & Michele Robertson Volume 11 Number 2 April 2004 Articles Continuing the Epidemiological Function of the Addicts Index— evidence from matching the Home Office Addicts Index with the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System Matthew Hickman, Maria Griffin, Joy Mott, John Corkery, Peter Madden, Arun Sondhi & Gerry Stimson Patterns of Drug Use in a Sample of 200 Young Drug Users in London Jim McCambridge & John Strang Female Drug Users and The Welfare System: a qualitative exploration Philip A. Luck, Kirk W. Elifson & Claire E. Sterk The Drug User's Identity and How It Relates to Being Hepatitis C Antibody Positive: a qualitative study Lorraine Copeland Commissioning Pharmacological Treatments for Drug Users: a brief review of the evidence base Jenny Keen & Philip Oliver Health and Psychosocial Consequences Associated with Long-term Prescription of Dexamphetamine to Amphetamine Misusers in Wolverhampton 1985-1998 Tracey My ton, Tom Carnivath & liana Crome Legalized or Not? Poor public communication causes confusion over the new cannabis policy in Belgium Dave Gelders & Jan Van Mierlo Book Reviews Volume 11 Number 3 June 2004 Commentaries On Private Policing: different European versions of 'we', 'them' and the State Kerstin Stenius The 'Lugna Gatan' Project—An Example of Enterprise in Crime Prevention Work Niklas Roth A Private Police Against Drugs? Irmgard Eisenbach-Stangl Do Not Disturb! How the demand for more safety and its increasing indifferences towards marginalized drug users and dealers have been successfully transferred into political programs Bettina Paul Situating Community Initiatives Responding to Drugs, Alcohol and the Threatening 'Other': commentary and UK examples Nigel South Articles Comparing Community and Prison-based Drug Treatments Joanne Neale & Esther Saville Are Deaths Due to Drug Use Among Young Men Underestimated in Official Statistics? D. Stanistreet, M. Gabbay, V. Jeffrey & S. Taylor 229 Patterns, Trends, and Meanings of Drug Use by Dance-drug Users in Edinburgh, Scotland Sarah C. E. Riley & Emma Hayward 243 Conducting Research in Different Alcohol Centres; achieving a follow-up rate of ninety-three percent < John H. Foster ■ 263 Book Review 275 Volume 11 Number 4 August 2004 Special Focus: UK Drug Misuse Research Initiative Editorial: The Department of Health (Policy Research Programme) Drug Misuse Research Initiative 277 How Strong is the Evidence that Illicit Drug Use by Young People is an Important Cause of Psychological or Social Harm? Methodological and policy implications of a systematic review of longitudinal, general population studies John Macleod, Rachel Oakes, Thomas Oppenkoivski, Helen Stokes- Lampard, Alex Copello, liana Crome, George Davey Smith, Matthias Egger, Mathew Hickman & Ali Judd 281 Long-term Heavy Cannabis Use: implications for health education Niall Coggans, Phil Dalgarno, Lindsay Johnson & David Shewan 299 Preteen Children and Illegal Drugs Neil McKeganey, James McIntosh, Fiona MacDonald, Maria Gannon, Eilish Gilvarry, Paul McArdle & Steve McCarthy 315 What are the Implications for Clinical Management and Service Development of Prevalent Comorbidity in UK Mental Health and Substance Misuse Treatment Populations? Tim Weaver, Gerry Stimson, Peter Tyrer, Thomas Barnes & Adrian Renton on beltalf of the COSMIC study team 329 Volume 11 Number 5 October 2004 Commentaries The Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy for England: Introduction John Foster & Betsy Thom Commentary on the Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy for England. An Historical Perspective John Greenaway Commentary on the Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy for England for Drugs: education, prevention and policy Jean Coussins & Kxite Winstanley Commentary on Alcohol, Harm Reduction Strategy for England T. /. Peters Admirable Ends, Ineffective Means; Comments on the Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy for England Thomas F. Babor Articles Drug Prevention as Co-ordination: the vicious circle of devolving responsibility in primary prevention Kati Rantala The impact of peers and social disapproval on high-risk cannabis use; Gender differences and implications for drug education Jennifer E. Butters Young People's Involvement in a Substance Misuse Communications Campaign Mathezv Jones, Debra Salmon & Judy Orme University Student Drinking: the role of motivational and social factors Jim Orford, Mya Krishnan, Melanie Balaam, Meri Everitt & Kathryn Van der Graaf What Are Drug Users Looking For When They Contact Drug •• Services: abstinence or harm reduction? Neil McKeganey, Zoe Morris, Joanne Neale & Michele Robertson Volume 11 Number 6 December 2004 Articles The Effects of EU Enlargement on European Drug Policy Caroline Chatwin Providing an Earlier Warning of Emerging Drug Trends: the Fore Var System Jane Mounteney & Siv-Elin Leirvag Adolescent Psychological Health Problems and Delinquency Among Volatile Substance Users in a School Sample in South London David Best, Victoria Manning, Michael Gossop, John Witton, Karen Floyd, Salman Raivaf & John Strang Undergraduate Medical School Education in Substance Misuse in Britain 111: can medical students drive change? liana B. Crome & Nasreen Shaikh fwjrt -Pit r ■ ci ! 1 I