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Direct linkWoods, Marguerite; Butler, Shane – Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 2011
This article reviews and reflects on the Diploma in Addiction Studies: a 1-year, full-time programme taught at the School of Social Work and Social Policy in Trinity College Dublin since the academic year 1983/1984, which has recently had its external funding withdrawn. The programme was aimed at multidisciplinary classes, including students from…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Social Work, Educational Philosophy, Educational Practices
Ryall, Graham; Butler, Shane – Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 2011
This research describes and analyses recent policy developments in Ireland in relation to the practice of selling psychoactive substances which, while not themselves illegal, mimic the effects of commonly used illegal drugs. These so-called "legal highs" had been sold in Ireland through an increasing number of "head shops" which in late-2009 and…
Descriptors: Drug Use, Interviews, Foreign Countries, Stakeholders
Butler, Shane – Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 2011
This article reviews the emergence and expansion of addiction counselling as a specialist form of professional practice with problem drinkers and drug users in Ireland, over the past 30 years. It sees addiction counselling as having its roots in a widely shared disenchantment with the "medical model" of addiction treatment, and identifies the main…
Descriptors: Health Services, Substance Abuse, Foreign Countries, Addictive Behavior
