Basic aspects and research

1. Is addiction a chronic relapsing disease?

Martien Kooyman

1. In it for the long haul: recovery capital, addiction theory and the inter-generational transmission of addictive behaviour

Rowdy Yates

1. Self-Medication and addictions

Miquel Casas

1. Promoting Best Practice in the drug addiction fi eld: the EMCDDA experience

Marica Ferri

1. Chronobiology and addiction: implications for treatment and prevention

Ana Adan

Sex differences

1. Biological bases of sex diff erences in drug addiction

Marta Torrens

1. Female polydrug abuse and psychopathology - Gender diff erences: an overview

Edle Ravndal

1. The impact of motherhood on recovery - Lessons we can learn from the treatment journeys of mothers with problematic substance misuse issues

Karen Biggs

Therapeutic communities

1. Quality of life in therapeutic communities for substance abuse

Eric Broekaert

1. The essential elements of treatment: a European therapeutic communities perspective

Ilse Goethals

1. MECETT, the journeymen model transferred to staff training in TC's

George van der Straten

1. The reasons for the rise and fall of the Bremberg empire

Vera Segraeus

Social and politic factors

1. The United Nations and drug demand reduction policies

Xavier Fernandez-Pons

1. Factors for eff ective long-term recovery: risk and challenges during the economic crisis in Greece

Charalampos Poulopoulos

1. Getting regular, early and brief alcohol interventions into primary care in rural New South Wales: the origins of the Murdi Paaki Drug and Alcohol Network

Rod MacQueen

1. Social exclusion and immigration: new patterns of drug use among young marginal migrants

Nuria Empez

1. Politics and ethics for a journal editor

Richard Pates