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Apantaku-Olajide, Tunde; James, Philip D.; Smyth, Bobby P. – Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2014
This study explores substance use, psychosocial problems, and the relationships to educational status in 193 adolescents (school dropouts, 63; alternative education, 46; mainstream students, 84) who attended a substance abuse treatment facility in Dublin, Ireland, within a 42-month period. For each adolescent, data on demographics, family…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Correlation, Adolescents, Substance Abuse
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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…
Descriptors: Health Services, Substance Abuse, Foreign Countries, Addictive Behavior