1: Drugs in Britain: The History
2: Drugs in Perspective
3: Drugs: Patterns of Use
4: The Consequences of Drug Use: the good, the bad and the ugly
5: Drug Control Policies: A Question of Balance
6: The Law and the Criminal Justice System
7: Is Drug Education Any Use?
8: Drug Classification and Drug Policy: Can these ever be
Evidence-Based?
9: Therapeutic Options
10: Future Directions?
Martin A. Plant is Professor of Addiction Studies in the Alcohol &
Health Research Unit in the University of the West of England,
Bristol. His publications include the books Drugtakers in an
English Town (1975), Drugs in Perspective (1981,1987), Risktakers:
Alcohol, Drugs, Sex and Youth (1992), Alcohol: Minimising the Harm
(1997), The Alcohol Report (2000), Binge Britain: Alcohol & the
National Response (2006). He is co-editor of a four volume
anthology entitled Addiction: Major Themes in Health and Welfare
(2007). He is Director of the UK part of the European School Survey
Project on Alcohol & other Drugs (ESPAD). His special interests
include the
epidemiology of alcohol and other drug use and the effectiveness of
and barriers to the implementation of policy options.
Roy Robertson is Honorary Clinical Reader in the Division of
Community Health Sciences in the University of Edinburgh. He has
worked as a full time National Health Service general practitioner
for many years in a deprived area of Edinburgh. He has directed the
long-running Edinburgh Drug Addiction Study and is an acknowledged
authority on illicit drugs and HIV/AIDS. He has served on the
Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs as well as committees of
the Department of Health, the Home Office
and the Scottish Executive. He was Chairman of the Shipman
Committee. Roy currently holds a grant from the Chief Scientist
Office to research the long-term effects of injecting drug use. He
has been
a trainer in General Practice and an advisor to various
parliamentary, criminal justice, media and educational groups on
topics relating to drug misuse, hepatitis C and HIV/AIDS. His
publications include the book Heroin, AIDS and Society. Roy
Robertson is doctor to HM the Queen in Scotland.
Patrick Miller is Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Alcohol &
Health Research Unit in the University of the West of England,
Bristol, United Kingdom. He has worked for many years on surveys of
substance use both in adults and in teenagers. He plays a leading
role in analysing and documenting findings from the UK part of the
European School Survey Project on Alcohol and other Drugs (ESPAD).
Patrick is Chairman of the ESPAD working group on attitudes. He is
also a key member of
the research team working on Gender, Alcohol & Culture: An
International Study (GENACIS) for the UK and the Isle of Man. He
has also been involved in studies of schizophrenia and, in
particular, in work on life
events and depression.
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