Substance Abuse Treatment

BASIC ASPECTS AND RESEARCH 1. Is addiction a chronic relapsing disease?2. In it for the long haul: recovery capital, addiction theory and the inter-generational transmission of addictive behaviour 3. Self-Medication and addictions4. Promoting Best Practice in the drug addiction field: the EMCDDA experience 5. Chronobiology and addiction: implications for treatment and preventionSEX DIFFERENCES 6. Biological bases of sex diff erences in drug addiction7. Female polydrug abuse and psychopathology – Gender differences: an overview 8. Th e impact of motherhood on recovery – Lessons we can learn from the treatment journeys of mothers with problematic substance misuse issuesTHERAPEUTIC COMMUNITIES 9. Quality of life in therapeutic communities for substance abuse10. The essential elements of treatment: a European therapeutic communities perspective 11. MECETT, the journeymen model transferred to staff training in TC’s12. The reasons for the rise and fall of the Bremberg empire SOCIAL AND POLITIC FACTORS13. The United Nations and drug demand reduction policies