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O'Brien, Tom – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2013
Heroin users are a stigmatized group of learners on the edge of society, whose struggle for recognition remains largely ignored. Drug treatment in the form of methadone and prescription drugs has only served to further stigmatize and disrespect their rights. Adult education aspires to be a discourse of resistance and a social movement for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Recognition (Achievement), Adult Education, Drug Use
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Loughran, Hilda; McCann, Mary Ellen – Social Indicators Research, 2011
The EU Action Plan on Drugs (2005-2008) calls for member states of the European Union to provide information on five key epidemiological indicators. These are: general population surveys, prevalence and patterns of problem drug use, drug related infectious diseases, drug related deaths and mortality of drug users, and demand for drug treatment.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Narcotics, Drug Addiction, Drug Use