"It's professional but it's personal": Participation, personal connection, and sustained disagreement in drug policy reform.

While there is widespread agreement as to the importance of increasing participation in drug policy design, drug policy literature contains limited reflection on the practices that may support inclusion and collaboration amongst policy actors, particularly when disagreement and difference are an intrinsic part of participation. Drawing on qualitative interviews and ethnographic fieldwork with actors engaged in an Australian illicit drug policy reform campaign, this paper examines how particular modes of personal connection mattered in establishing and maintaining working relationships between a range of differently situated actors. Through engagement with this case study, we argue that modes of personal connection marked by qualities such as being frank; engaged; not forcing consensus; enacting respect; listening in order to understand; and acting in ways that respected the obligations and limits that came with people's roles while also recognising one another as more than those roles, were particularly important qualities that supported connection across difference.

Navigating the grey: Experiences of incremental cannabis reform in Australia.

Introduction And Aims: There have been many changes to cannabis laws across the globe, some dramatic but more often incremental. This study explored the experiences after an incremental cannabis law reform in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

Method: Semi-structured interviews (n = 30) were conducted in March and April 2021, 14 months after the introduction of cannabis law reform, with people aged 18 and over who had grown and/or consumed cannabis in the previous 12 months.

Examining untreated and treated alcohol problem resolution in an Australian online survey sample.

Introduction: While treatment is an effective way to resolve alcohol problems, many people resolve their alcohol problems in the absence of treatment. Just how many do so is not known and may vary based on the definition of treatment. Various estimates of untreated alcohol problem resolution were calculated in this study, and the differences between people who resolve their alcohol problems with or without treatment were explored in relation to sociodemographic variables, levels of alcohol consumption in the past 12 months and lifetime alcohol problem severity.

Recovery from alcohol problems in the absence of treatment: a qualitative narrative analysis.

Background And Aims: Recovery from alcohol problems in the absence of treatment or mutual-aid is very common, but under-researched. This study explores the lives of people who had resolved their alcohol problems without treatment, seeking to situate experiences of recovery in social contexts and broader life narratives.

Design: The in-depth qualitative interviews were aided by a life-history methodology that invited participants to account retrospectively for their lives.

Systematic review of untreated remission from alcohol problems: Estimation lies in the eye of the beholder.

Background: Remission from alcohol problems in the absence of treatment is common, yet there are wide ranging estimates of the extent to which this occurs, depending on method. A systematic review of the literature on untreated remission from alcohol problems was conducted to analyse the ways different definitions and study designs impact on estimates of untreated remission from alcohol problems, and to explore the implications for treatment planning.

Methods: 2103 texts were identified through systematic searches of databases (Medline, PsycINFO, EMBASE) and other searches.

Key Considerations in Planning for Substance Use Treatment: Estimating Treatment Need and Demand.

Objective: Estimates of the extent of treatment need (defined by the presence of a diagnosis for which there is an effective treatment available) and treatment demand (defined as treatment seeking) are essential parts of effective treatment planning, service provision, and treatment funding. This article reviews the existing literature on approaches to estimating need and demand and the use of models to inform such estimation, and then considers the implications for health planners.

Method: A thematic review of the literature was undertaken, with a focus on covering the key concepts and research methods that have been used to date.

Antipsychotic medication and oxidative cell stress: a systematic review.

Objective: To look at (1) the association between antipsychotics and cell stress, (2) whether first-generation antipsychotics may show different effects than second-generation antipsychotics, and (3) whether recommendations can be made regarding medication.

Data Sources: We conducted a systematic review of 5 databases for all articles published until December 31, 2007: PubMed, Ovid MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, and EBM Reviews. Under specific headings (eg, "heat shock proteins" and "oxidative stress"), a systematic search of these databases included such terms as HSP70 and homocysteine, and specific search strings were constructed.