3rd Multi-city Study
3rd Multi-city Study

Author: Ruud J. M. Bless

Publisher: Council of Europe

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9789287144591

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Large cities are confronted with a wide range of drug-related problems, and many new trends in drug consumption appear first in urban contexts. This study aims to monitor and interpret trends and developments in drug misuse across a network of forty-two major cities in twenty-four European countries. The report covers the period 1991-98, and uses a set of standardised epidemiological indicators covering prevalence, treatment, health, drug law offences and the drug market. It also includes an analysis of trends in eastern and western European cities.

Drugs and Drug Dependence
Drugs and Drug Dependence

Author: Richard Hartnoll

Publisher: Council of Europe

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9789287154903

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How can research, policy and practice best be linked when dealing with drugs and drug dependence? This is a complicated dilemma that Richard Hartnoll, one of Europe's leading experts in the field of drugs, discusses in this publication.

Treatment Systems Overview
Treatment Systems Overview

Author: Richard Muscat

Publisher: Council of Europe

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9789287169303

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In an effort to make knowledge available about how treatment systems for drug users are organised in different countries, and to facilitate bi- and multilateral co-operation and research, this publication presents an overview of the treatment systems of 22 of the 35 Pompidou Group member countries. In most of Europe, The focus of drug treatment in the 1980s and 1990s was on heroin And The introduction of substitution treatment. However, a shift to cater for polydrug use is now taking place across Europe. The diversity of treatment systems reflects the complexity of the local legal, political, economic and cultural context of drug problems. This source of good practices for making treatment accessible and available will be useful not only for policy makers and practitioners, but also for user groups, researchers And The wider public as well

Regional Development in Central and Eastern Europe
Regional Development in Central and Eastern Europe

Author: Grzegorz Gorzelak

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-24

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1136997180

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This book provides an up-to-date assessment of the main processes and dilemmas of regional development and regional policy in the newer European Union Member States in Central and Eastern Europe and neighbouring countries. It highlights the difficulties of balancing the demands within the new Member States for rapid regional growth and development with, firstly, the demands of the European Union overall that restructuring and development should conform to the aims and principles of EU common policies; and, secondly, with budgetary constraints. The book covers a wide range of issues, including global and national challenges to regional convergence and cohesion; regional dynamics, city networks and border issues; the effectiveness of policy responses at national and European levels, including an assessment of policy experiences from outside the new Member States; and likely future developments.

Biomedical Research in the Drugs Field
Biomedical Research in the Drugs Field

Author: Richard Muscat

Publisher: Council of Europe

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 9287160171

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Why is it that certain people use drugs in the first place and then why do some become dependent following repeated use while others do not? What are the possible implications of the current state of affairs of research from a biomedical or more aptly put, a Neuroscience perspective, including an ethical point of view? These are questions the author attempts to answer as the biomedical or neuroscience research in the drug field is a fast moving area with ethical implications that have arisen as a result of the conduct of such research.

Risk Factors in Adolescent Drug Use
Risk Factors in Adolescent Drug Use

Author: Richard Muscat

Publisher: Council of Europe

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9287161968

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This publication first compiles the needs of political decision makers and then uses the ESPAD (European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs) survey as a vehicle to conduct a more in-depth analysis of the risk factors for substance use in Iceland, France and Malta. Finally, it uses of ESPAD data in science, the media and in public policy is tackled from the French experience.--Publisher's description.

Drug Addiction
Drug Addiction

Author: Council of Europe

Publisher: Council of Europe

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9287156395

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This publication, part of the Ethical Eye series, contains contributions from a multidisciplinary group of authors from a range of different countries in Europe which examine ethical questions arising from public policy aspects of drug addiction and the use of illicit drugs. Topics discussed include: drug prevention and education; drug testing in the workplace; the financial costs of treatment in light of other medical or socio-economic needs; information processing and data confidentiality; and compulsory treatment issues.