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n° 29 - March 2010 - 1
Editorial
• Editorial
• Online Information
2009
I
WRITE THIS EDITORIAL from the Oasi in Turin where we have recently held
• Evaluation of our our first board meeting for 2010. As we arrived yesterday it was snowing
Budapest meeting and we woke up this morning to deep snow in the garden of the Oasi and a
• News beautiful clear view of the Alps. What a pity that we had to work!
• Publications So what did we discuss at the Board - we worked on updating our constitution
• OnlineDocs which will be brought to our annual meeting later this year for approval.
• Agenda Finances as usual were on the agenda and as an organisation we need to manage
our money carefully in difficult economic times. Suggestions for raising
income are welcome and I will be giving this more thought - so please do send
me any ideas you may have.
We discussed the possibility of using social networking tools for communica-
ting but felt that the email list works so why change when there is little need to.
As an experiment we are going to have an entry in Wikipedia (France) to pro-
mote Elisad. This will be monitored to see what impact it has before deciding
whether we should have a page for every country that our members come from.
Many of us worked on the Gateway Project and, as I have said before, it is a
resource that we need to continue updating, and I will be giving some serious
thought to this.
Our annual meeting was discussed and it was agreed that we should rename it
as our Annual Conference. The evaluation of the Budapest meeting in 2009 was
very useful to us as we considered what the theme might be - if you any ideas
please email either Jorunn Moen jm@sirus.no or Claes Olsson claes.olsson@can.se
who are both involved in our conference organising group.
Spring is the time of renewal and new beginnings, so I would like to congratulate
Brian Galvin, a member from Eire, on becoming the Head of the Irish Focal Point.
Christine Goodair, Elisad Chair
n° 29 - March 2010 - 2
• Editorial
• Online Information
2009
• Evaluation of our
Budapest meeting Online Information 200921st
• News
• Publications
• OnlineDocs
Elisad annual meeting
8-10 October Senior Adviser Jorunn Moen
• Agenda
Norwegian Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research (SIRUS)
Online Information and IMS (the Information Management Solutions exhibition) is the largest
event dedicated to the information industry and provides an annual, global meeting place
for the industry. The event is always held during the first week of December each year.
T
HE ONLINE INFORMATION
AND IMS take place in the
Olympia Hall at the outs-
kirts of Kensington in London.
The weather in London varies at
this time of the year. It can be
grey and rainy, or mild with clear
sunshine - almost as spring for
someone from Norway. Rain or
shine, London always has a lot to
offer before Christmas. Beautiful
Christmas decorated shops and
streets. This year there was a big,
floodlit picture of Scrooge in the
Christmas decoration above one
of the main streets in Soho, the
entertainment area. This was pro-
bably because one of the theatres
showed A Christmas Carol by
Charles Dickens - where the miser Online Information is a highly There are always several parallel
Scrooge is the main character - as regarded international conference. sessions at the conference. The
a musical. Great fun, I went to see It attracts over 700 delegates from conference area is on the third
it. I also managed to visit The over 40 countries. Online Informa- floor of the Olympia Hall, with
Pizza Express, one of London's tion once again was host to infor- one big auditorium hosting the
well-known jazz clubs, where I mation professionals, information opening and closing keynote and
had an extraordinary experience. end-users and publishers from the most popular sessions. In
The pianist of the band played so around the globe, meeting suppliers addition to the auditorium, there
well he almost became one with of online content, e-publishing are two other smaller rooms for
his piano. and library management solutions. less popular presentations.
I have attended the Online Informa- Every year, there is a featuring The popularity of an event is dif-
tion every year since 2001. The topic. When the featuring topic is ficult to foresee. Last years clo-
energy of the event always follows an important one, it may be the sing keynote was, for the first
the same pattern. There is a lot of same as previous years. The 2009 time, held in one of the smaller
energy the first day, a bit slower - featuring topic was the semantic rooms, as many delegates tend to
but still quite high - the second web, just as in 2008. However, in leave early. To the surprise of the
day and a bit low on the last day. 2008, the focus was on semantic organizers, the room was far too
search engines. This year, the small. This year, the closing key-
Online Information semantic web was looked upon note was back in the auditorium.
www.online-information.co.uk/ from a different angle: on how to At the conference level, there is a
index.html apply it in a useful way. Technology café area where a lot of important
The conference fee is quite high. is becoming more and more networking takes place. I meet
As an academic delegate, I pay a “intelligent” and the web is able more Norwegian colleagues here
special price, or rather, my employer to “understand” more of what we than I do in Norway throughout
SIRUS paid £458 this year. want done. the year.
n° 29 - March 2010 - 3 The opening keynote kicks off the as well as social technologies and Information Management
conference. One of the hot topics web 2.0. Yahoo Research and Solutions (IMS)
of the opening keynote this year Google's different search engines www.ims-show.co.uk
was new formats. RDF (Rich were presented. Google Scholar IMS is free. It is an exhibition
Document Format) was said to be and Google Books were said to with 300 exhibitors, over 9,000
a coming format, URI (Universal have a great impact on journal visitors from 70 countries and a
Resource Identification) was said and book publishers. The future show floor seminar programme. It
to be taking over from URL key to success for search engines provides a forum for IT, business
• Editorial (Universal Resource Link). Later is to share and be open. and information management pro-
on in the conference HTML was fessionals to find advice, educa-
• Online Information praised as a coming format, even New this year was the European
tional content and solutions under
2009 if it's old and well known. XML, Library Theatre which hosted
one roof.
• Evaluation of our another well-known format, even national forums (Nordic, German
and French). The national forums IMS is at the ground floor of the
Budapest meeting had its own pavilion at the free
have been on and off during my
seminar programme at IMS. Olympia Hall. There is a walk
• News years of participation. A new way around the huge hall, like a
• Publications On day one, three sessions were angle this year was that they were long balcony - on the second floor.
run and these were: all held in the same location and A walk along this area, gives you
• OnlineDocs that there were sessions on Euro- a good overview of the exhibition.
1. In search of semantic,
• Agenda pean libraries with presentations Big companies like British Library,
2.The real time web: discovery
of different libraries from several Ebsco, Elsevier, Oxford University
versus search,
European countries. Press, ProQuest, Thomson Reuters,
3. Semantic technologies: from bold Sage, Springer, Swets and Wiley
visions to practical implementations. www.data.gov.uk was praised as were among the exhibitors. There
a best practice site. It is a single
were also a lot of other companies
On day two, there were four ses- point of access to all public data-
of various sizes.
sions: sets in the UK.
1. The realisation of the semantic This year, there were more than
When a group consists of more 50 free show floor seminars on
web,
than five persons, communication offer. Dedicated to improving
2. Semantic web developments in by email was said to be a waste of
government, collaboration, productivity and
time. The advice is to move to a creativity for business, they cove-
3. Semantic web applications, chatting space where all documents red a wide range of topics and
4. Semantics and metadata. can be shared in a common space were led by expert speakers.
and there is no need for attachments.
On the third and last day, there Panacea and Pandora's Box were There were three parallel seminar
was only one session: “Open plat- mentioned as chatting spaces. Of lines. One was on web and enter-
forms”. the two, Panacea was recommen- prise content management. Another
ded because it is more intuitive was on enterprise search solutions
Marydee Ojala, editor of Online and timesaving than Pandora's Box. and a third on web 2.0 technologies
Magazine (www.onlinemag.net) and marketing through social media.
from USA, gave one of the most At the closing keynote, which is a
interesting presentations from a kick off for next year's conference, At IMS you can meet suppliers of
librarian's point of view. In a three main topics were forecast: content management, search solu-
down to earth way she explained semantic web, social web and tions and web 2.0 technologies. It
how to approach web 2.0 (blogs, metadata. Sessions are decided on is also a unique area for meeting
wikis, tweets, RSS) in libraries. by a dedicated conference com- representatives for the companies
Her advice was to use common mittee. Adrian Dale, the main edi- with which you do business. The
My article from last sense before jumping into these tor of Journal of Information SIRUS library uses Dialog/Datastar
year's conference on the social media. Make sure what you Science (http://jis.sagepub.com), from ProQuest, Academic Search
semantic web with an emphasis want to achieve by adding social stepped down after four years as Elite from EBSCO and Web of
on semantic search engines tools before you start. chair of the Online Information Science from Thomson. As always,
can be found in Elisad Journal executive committee and Steve I enjoyed talking to all our contact
26, March 2009, page 3. As usual, next generation of Dale from Semantix (UK) Ltd. persons. This year, I - along with
search was an important subject, took over the baton. The same the rest of the SIRUS library team -
family name is a coincident, they had an interesting demonstration
are not related. of Scopus from Elsevier - a sharp
Who is attending ? competitor to Web of Science.
700 delegates from 40 countries attended. The delegates were mainly
from Western Europe, USA and Canada.
UK was, naturally, highly represented both as presenters and delegates.
USA had by far most presenters.
17 Western European countries were represented (Austria, Belgium,
Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg,
Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and UK)
and 7 countries from Eastern Europe (Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary,
Lithuania, Poland, Russian Federation and Slovenia).
4 countries from the Middle East were represented (Bahrain, Israel,
Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates), 3 from Asia (Brunei, India
and Singapore), 2 from Australia and two from Africa (Nigeria and
South Africa) - and 1 from the West Indies (Bermuda).
n° 29 - March 2010 - 4
Evaluation
• Editorial
of the Elisad annual meeting
• Online Information
2009
• Evaluation of our
in Budapest
Budapest meeting
• News
A brief summary by Beatrix Kovacs
• Publications National Institute for Strategic Health Research
• OnlineDocs
• Agenda
15 questionnaires were filled-in, 12 of which by Elisad members, Which aspects did not meet your expectations
and 3 by non-members. Scores ranged from 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent). • Programme planning - too many presentations on day one
• The information given in the presentations did not cover the
Evaluation average scores for each item:
theme of the conference: what can we contribute?
• Pre-conference information (wiki, etc.) 4.0
• Too short sessions, no time for questions
• Organisation 4.5
• Not much time left for questions after the presentation
• Conference facility 4.5
• Practical conclusions and decisions, being on a positive way for
• Speakers' communication styles 3.6 our future, practical positive conclusions
• Presentations 3.5 • The presentation about ESPAD concerned all Europe. This infor-
• Time management 4.1 mation is easily available online for anyone who is interested.
• Delivered documents 3.5 • Utility of Judit Ward presentation?
• Opportunity of networking/knowledge sharing 4.2
Suggestions for improving:
• Atmosphere 4.6
The Elisad annual meeting:
• Coffee breaks/meals 4.7
• More presentations about information skills etc.
Overall evaluation 4.4 • Less about alcohol/drug situation.
• Less presentations dealing with the hosting country situation
Round table: • Lets stay to our “own business”
13 participants answered. Overall evaluation: 3.8 • More groups or round tables
• More active and participation of members
Comments: • Longer sessions (30 min) + time for questions
• A good away to activate and to get to know everybody
The Elisad website:
• It is a good way to network and share knowledge • More update news
• Great idea, if there is a follow-up, even better • More content
• Very warm. Excellent way of sharing. But what came out? • I do not use it often, only to find a member's address…
• Not always easy to interact because our English levels are not the The Elisad journal:
same • More active and participation of members
• Excellent
Topics to be discussed at our future meetings: • More contributors
• Topics: cyber-addiction, special technical tools, marketing of • I like it and do not see how to improve it
library, documentation and the internet,
Additional comments/suggestions:
• How can we improve our services?
• Excellent organisation, very hospitable environment, kind host
• How to use Elisad network as a resource to share documents on
librarians, great food. Thanks for all and congratulation.
addiction
• The addition of the country on the badges in order to know
• Practical information what we can do with it?
where people come from!
• Chances that has happened / is happening in libraries • The meeting was too short. The presentations were about the best
• Best practices, how other libraries manage to survive since many years. It was the best and the more little (in member of
• More web 2.0 applications participants).
• The next Elisad project • Too little time for questions. Stressed atmosphere. To little time
for the presenters. Almost all used more time than scheduled.
• Elisad website
• Suggestion: 30 minutes per presentation. Time for question/dialog.
Fewer presentations.
Presentations of our meeting available at:
http://2009elisadmeeting.pbworks.com/Programme • I think that when a presentation is touching on a website, it is
better not to do a power point, but rather to show the website itself.
n° 29 - March 2010 - 5
News
visibility and respect for human rights, La Rochelle, Nantes), two Belgium Take-Home Naloxone
in accordance to the trio presidency cities (Liège, Anvers), an English one This is a new website run by indepen-
• Editorial programme. (Kingston upon Thames), two German dent academics and healthcare profes-
www.pnsd.msc.es/en/presidencia/ini-
• Online Information cio.htm
ones (Stuttgart, Düsseldorf), and Rotter- sionals aimed at raising the awareness
dam in the Netherlands. A committee
2009 of experts will follow the project,
and profile of the use of take-home
naloxone as a mechanism for reducing
• Evaluation of our The WHO cocaine project. among which is the OFDT (French drug-related death, and to provide a
Budapest meeting TNI publishes banned study monitoring centre for drugs and drug forum for discussing innovation,
This is the title of a news published by addictions), member of Elisad. training and practice developments.
• News TNI, Feb. 4, 2010. In 1995 the World www.ffsu.org/index.php?id=30166 Whether you are a drug user, carer,
• Publications Health Organization (WHO) and the policymaker or are working in the
United Nations Interregional Crime Gambling power circle: substance misuse field the website
• OnlineDocs and Justice Research Institute (Unicri) a new approach for gambling provides a complete guide on the use
• Agenda announced in a press release the publi- problems in Finland of take-home naloxone.
cation of the results of the largest Gambling power circle (GPC) is SMS www.take-homenaloxone.com
study on cocaine use ever undertaken. service for problem gamblers provided
Board elects João Goulão as The study concluded that the use of by the A-Clinic Foundation (an Elisad Drug prevention project
new EMCDDA Chairman coca leaves appears to have no negative member) and the Peluuri Gambling in Kosovo
João Goulão, Portuguese national drug health effects and has positive thera- Helpline, and funded by the Finnish Trimbos Institute assists in tackling
coordinator and Head of the Institute peutic, sacred and social functions for Slot Machine Association. GPC offers prevention problems and has started a
for Drugs and Drug Addiction (Reitox indigenous Andean populations. One peer support, self-help and professio- drug prevention project in Kosovo.
focal point) was elected Chairman for of the recommendation holds that nal support via SMS and the Internet. The project will be carried out in col-
the next three years. He has been mem- “WHO/PSA should investigate the the- It has peer discussions forums with laboration with the Kosovo Health
ber of the EMCDDA Board since 2005 rapeutic benefits of coca leaf”. and without professional instructors, Foundation and will continue until
According to the study, health problems
and previously served on the agency's counselling service, reminders that the February 2012.
from the use of legal substances, parti-
Scientific Committee (1997-2002). Dr members create for themselves, and www.trimbos.org/
cularly alcohol and tobacco, are grea-
Goulão has over 20 years' experience automatic support messages. The service
ter than health problems from cocaine
in preventing/treating drug addiction, may further recovery on its own or as Techno+ lance un concours de
use. A decision in the World Health
having steered a variety of national a part of other treatment. It also encou- vidéos
Assembly banned its publication. The
bodies in the field. He was also a mem- rages in finding suitable treatment.
US representative threatened that “if Techno+ launches a video competition
ber of the commission which proposed This kind of new service seems to be
WHO activities failed to reinforce pro- The french harm reduction association,
the current national drug strategy. needed. According to a 2007 survey
ven drug control approaches, funds for Techno+, wellknown for its interven-
www.emcdda.europa.eu/ conducted by the Ministry of Social
the relevant programmes should be tions in raves, free parties and other
Affairs and Health, a third of people
curtailed”. This led to the decision to dance scenes, is launching a video
DSM-V Draft includes major who had suffered from gambling pro-
discontinue publication. A part of the competition. To celebrate the 40 years
changes to addictive disease study has been recuperated and is now
blems (42 000) can be seen as probable
pathological gamblers in Finland. of existence of the French Act (31.12.
classifications available on the TNI's website, under
Excessive gambling may cause health, 1970) prohibiting drug use and traf-
The first draft of the American Psychia- the title The natural history of cocaine ficking, the theme of this competition
abuse: A case study endeavour (WHO social and economical problems. The
tric Association's (APA) latest Diagnostic is: The effects of drug prohibition.
publication, 240p, Sept. 1995) service is anonymous, available eve-
& Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders This action is considered as an original
www.tni.org/article/who-cocaine- rywhere, and at all-time. It is free of
(DSM-V) eliminates the disease cate- campaign, allowing young people to
gories for substance abuse and depen- project charge and confidential. It offers a
new perspective to self-help, peer sup- express their ideas through the news
dence and replaces it with a new tools they are using nowadays. The
“addictions and related disorders” - European Drug Prevention Prize port and professional help.
best films will be priced in June 2010
just one of several major changes to 2010 Contact information: Annina Aaltonen, and then used in interventions.
the “Bible” used almost universally to Gambling Power Circle Project www.technoplus.org/
The Pompidou Group is launching its
diagnose (and get insurance reimbur- Coordinator, A-Clinic Foundation,
European Drug Prevention Prize 2010
sement for) behavioral-health problems. Tel: +358 50 574 6215, E-mail: Anthrax infection
and calling for projects to apply. This
http://members.jointogether.org/ct/P annina.aaltonen@a-klinikka.fi among heroin users
4th Prize will be awarded at the
d3Iy6p10r20/ Ministerial Conference taking place
Summer institute on alcohol, A total of 24 cases of anthrax infection
on 3-4 November 2010 in Strasbourg. have been confirmed in Scotland since
Spanish Presidency of the For the first time, projects from all 47 drugs and addiction
the beginning of December 2009
Council of the European Union Council of Europe member states are This is a joint initiative of ZonMw, among heroin users. Ten cases have
priorities on drugs invited to participate. These projects Netherlands Organisation for Health died. In Germany a case was hospitali-
The trio presidency formed by Spain, must be currently running, managed Research and Development, and the sed and died from multiorgan failure
Belgium and Hungary for the next 18 by young people, targeting children Graduate School of Social Sciences on 13 December 2009. Laboratory
months has fixed goals for the promo- and young people and be innovative. (University of Amsterdam) where it tests carried out in Germany on this
tion of a United Europe in respect for The deadline for submission is 31 will be will held from July 4-16, 2010. confirmed case have shown that the
its rich cultural and social diversity. March 2010. Rules and application at : Its programme offers graduate students strain is indistinguishable from the
Within these goals, the definition of a www.coe.int/t/dg3/pompidou/source/ and professionals a great opportunity strains isolated from cases in Scotland.
post-Lisbon strategy and the construc- newsletter/PrevPrize_en.htm to advance their knowledge in the The UK health authorities reported
tion of an EU social agenda are the field of addiction studies in an interna- two confirmed cases, one in London
objectives related to the EU drug policy. Safer drinking scenes tional environment. This intensive and a fatal one in Blackpool. This
The Spanish Presidency agenda has This is the name of a new project being two-week programme seeks to provide makes the total number of cases in the
been built upon the base of an enhanced launched by the French Forum for a multidisciplinary approach to the study UK 26, including 11 death. On 11
support to the European unity and the Urban Safety (FFSU). Agreed by the of addiction and to promote opportu- February, the European Centre for
coordination of actions between the European Commission, it should start nities for international networking Disease Prevention and Control
Member States and the European within the first quarter of 2010. It is among participants. All participants (ECDC) and the Emcdda released an
Institutions. The external relations are focusing on young people abusing will receive an official certificate from update of their joint threat assessment
proposed within the frame of the prin- alcohol in public spaces. Its partners the Universiteit van Amsterdam. report on this problem.
ciples of effectiveness, coherence, are four French cities (Bordeaux, Brest, www.ishss.uva.nl/Addiction/ http://ecdc.europa.eu/
n° 29 - March 2010 - 6
• Editorial
• Online Information
2009
• Evaluation of our
Budapest meeting
• News
• Publications
• OnlineDocs
• Agenda
Publications
An introduction to anti-money the Golden Gate and from Spain's Margaret J. Goldstein - Twenty-First
laundering deterrence Costa del Crime to the future of Century Books (Series: USA Today's
conflict and prohibition with its fresh Debate: Voices and perspectives), May
Generally, books on money laundering
cast of Afghan war lords and central 2010, 160p - ISBN: 978-0761351160
deterrence tend to focus on the regula-
European gangsters. It examines how www.lernerbooks.com/
tions in a single country perspective
and why things go wrong, and the
and do not provide much in the form
of practical advice and guidance. This price which is paid when they do. The politics of narcotic drugs.
volume looks at the regulations and Paul Copperwaite - Robinson, June A survey
then considers what they mean in 2010, 512p - ISBN: 978-1849013062 This book brings together leading
practice for a bank. Legislation requires www.constablerobinson.com/ experts on the drugs trade to provide a
firms and banks to provide all relevant detailed analysis of the multiple chal-
employees with adequate training on Smack express: How organised lenges that the contemporary trade in
that legislation, and to recognize and crime got hooked on drugs narcotic drugs and its prohibition pose,
deal appropriately with transactions from the local to the international
Organised crime operates every day in
where money laundering is suspected. community. Through the use of coun-
every country. It is a multi-billion
It looks at a series of types of money try and regional case studies that
dollar business and at its core are the
laundering, explain how they are used include Afghanistan, Mexico, Colombia
drug trade and a world of secrecy and
and what controls could be used by an and the Middle East, the drivers of the
self-protection where intimidation and
institution. What should make a banker drug trade and the security and deve-
violence are used as the first and only
suspicious, how would suspicion lopment dilemmas created by the pro-
resort. The book takes us deep into
appear to a court, and what will the hibition of narcotic substances are
impact be on controls and reputational this world and unravels the web of cri-
minal connections that are at the heart explored. Contributions cover the prevalent in many regions. Drawing
risk. It provides practical guidance on international drug control regime,
of the Australian underworld. It is on their experience, the authors
how to implement the regulations and British anti-drug enforcement organi-
about stand over merchants, big time explore a range of issues that confront
prevent money laundering. sations, 'narcoterrorism' and options
drug dealers and small time politicians, today's drug interdiction officer. The
Dennis W. Cox - Wiley,, July 2010, corrupt police, informants, undercover for drug policy reform and engage book explains how to initiate specific
288p - ISBN: 978-0470065723 readers in debates and frameworks domestic drug interdiction programs
cops, contract killers, criminal gangs,
www.wiley-vch.de/ that shape discussion of the drugs and discusses how to use business
and lawyers operating on the edge of
the law. It is also about the Calabrian issue. The book is an invaluable guide partnerships to assist law enforcement
The mammoth book of drug Mafia, triads and an international to the dynamic and cross-cutting issue in identifying potential violators who
barons milieu that has connections across of narcotic drugs and the impact of use legitimate businesses to facilitate
This book tells about the rise and fall Southeast Asia and into Columbia. their prohibition on our countries and the drug trade. It examines consensual
of the outlaw lords of the drug world, communities. encounters, the use of drug canines,
Clive Small & Tom Gilling - Orion, and interdictions involving trains,
from the Cali Cartel, to Britain’s big- Julia Buxton - Routledge, April 2010,
April 2010, 320p - ISBN: 978- buses, airports, and rental vehicles.
gest drug baron, Curtis Cocky Warren 320p - ISBN: 978-1857435016
1741756364 The text also covers interdictions at
and the Essex Triple Murders. From www.routledge.com/
www.orionbooks.co.uk/ hotels and those involving storage
freewheeling cannabis operations to
the lethal heaviness of organized crime, units and parcel systems and, includes
Legalizing drugs: Drug interdiction.
the doings of the dealers, bagmen and a chapter on currency seizures as well
Crime stopper or social risk? Partnerships, legal principles, as chapters on report writing, court-
taxmen those crazy enough to extort
money from drug dealers of a ruth- This book looks at the history of drug and investigative methodologies room testimony, and the role of the
lessly violent underworld. It also covers laws in the United States, the modern- for law enforcement interdiction supervisor. Each chapter
the pursuit and capture of Mr Nice, day War on drugs, and the medical As drug trafficking and abuse continue includes relevant case law that sup-
the story of the hunt for Pablo Escobar marijuana movement. It provides to to inflict untold harm upon our society, ports the protocol described.
and an in-depth piece on cocaine pro- young people (14-18 years old) the it is clear that a global initiative and George S Steffen, Samuel Candelaria -
duction in the Colombian interior. It opinions and perspectives of police an intense domestic strategy are vital CRC Press, 2nd ed., April 2010, 320p -
provides an inside story of drug traf- officers, politicians, and the US to address the sophisticated Drug traf- ISBN: 978-1420091762
ficking, from the Golden Triangle to "drug czar." ficking organizations (DTOs) that are www.routledge.com/
n° 29 - March 2010 - 7 mework for the design, delivery and Alcohol: No ordinary commodity. involvement and consumption levels;
funding of drug services and interven- Research and public policy 3) Reducing harm: promoting situatio-
tions. Although other approaches nal risk reduction practices for regular
By locating alcohol policy primarily
remain important to understanding the users, addicts and recreational users;
within the realm of public health, this
scope and range of responses to subs- 4) Reducing addiction: drug treatment
book draws attention to the growing
tance misuse - such as education, pre- options for various groups in various
tendency for governments to consider
vention, and harm minimisation - this settings; and 5) Drug policies and
alcohol misuse as a major determinant
text explores the importance and cen- prescriptions: debates about prohibition
of ill health, and to organize societal
trality of the Criminal Justice System and legalization.
responses accordingly. The authors
• Editorial as a framework for and specific influ- Mangai Natarajan - Ashgate, March
describe the conceptual basis for a
ence on policy, funding and targets. 2010, 498p - ISBN: 978-0754627753
• Online Information rational alcohol policy and present
Richard Huggins - Willan Pub., May new epidemiological data on the global www.ashgate.com/
2009 2010, 256p - ISBN: 978-1843928331 dimensions of alcohol misuse. The
• Evaluation of our www.willanpublishing.co.uk/ book provides a critical review of the Signals from drug research
cumulative scientific evidence in seven
Budapest meeting Le grand deal de l'opium. areas of alcohol policy: pricing and
Tendances de la recherche sur les
drogues
• News Histoire du marché légal des taxation, regulating the availability of In this publication, experts present the
drogues alcohol, modifying the environment in
• Publications which drinking occurs, drinking-driving
results of the latest research into the
The opium great deal. History of the problem of drug addiction. The dyna-
• OnlineDocs drug legal market countermeasures, marketing restrictions, mics of the cannabis market are analy-
primary prevention programs in schools
• Agenda Les drogues : ce vieux problème sani- and other settings, and treatment and
sed through the lens of sociology,
taire, moral et politique est ici abordé whereas researchers in psychology
early intervention services. The final look at personality traits, impulsivity
dans une perspective nouvelle : les chapters discuss the current state of
Marijuana is safer. So why are drogues ne sont pas interdites, mais and sensation seeking. In addition, the
alcohol policy in different States and most recent theories in neuroscience
we driving people to drink? contrôlées. Le commerce légal des describe the need for a new approach
drogues existe, mais est moins connu and dependency are presented. Finally,
Recognized marijuana-policy experts, to alcohol policy that is evidence- this book provides information on
the authors compare the relative harms que le très médiatisé trafic de stupé- based, realistic, and coordinated.
fiants. Au sein de la Société des Nations what treatments are available, or may
and legal status of the two most popu- Thomas F. Babor, Raul Caetano, Sally be available in future for drug addic-
lar recreational substances in the puis de l'Onu, des représentants des
États et des industries pharmaceutiques Casswell, Griffith Edwards, et al. - tion.
world, marijuana and alcohol. Through Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., Feb.
an objective examination of the two ont mis en place les structures écono- Richard Muscat, et al. - Pompidou
miques et juridiques de ce marché 2010, 384p - ISBN: 978-0199551149 Group, Jan. 2010, 72p. An online Pdf
drugs and the laws and social practices http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/
légal des drogues qui prend la forme is announced at:(www.coe.int/t/dg3/
that steer people toward alcohol, the
d'un véritable oligopole international. pompidou/Publications_en.asp/), but
authors pose a simple yet rarely consi- Drug abuse: prevention
L'ouvrage montre que ces organisations the link did not work at the time of my
dered question: Why do we punish and treatment. Vol. III
ont moins cherché à combattre le trafic visit - ISBN: 978-9287166944 in EN
adults who make the rational, safer
qu'à contrôler le marché légal des stu- Ever since the Shanghai convention in and 978-9287166937 in FR.
choice to use marijuana instead of
péfiants. Pourquoi ? Parce que c'est là 1909, the threat posed to human well- http://book.coe.int/
alcohol? For those unfamiliar with
que se trouve l'argent. Le commerce being by drug abuse has led countries
marijuana, the book provides an intro-
légal fournit les hôpitaux et pharmacies to take action to deal with their drug
duction to the cannabis plant and its
et représente des enjeux économiques problems. Most countries try to reduce
effects, and debunks some of the
importants. Durant tout le 20e siècle, both the supply of and the demand for
government's most frequently cited
une véritable guerre diplomatique a drugs. There is little research consen-
marijuana myths. For advocates of
permis d'organiser ce marché au niveau sus on the respective merits of these
marijuana-law reform, the authors
mondial au profit de quelques acteurs. two approaches or about the best ways
spell out why the message that mari-
La troisième guerre de l'opium a déjà to pursue them. Consequently, control
juana is safer than alcohol must be a eu lieu et elle a ses vainqueurs : les and prevention policies are mostly dri-
prominent part of the public debate États-Unis, la Grande-Bretagne, l'Inde, ven by political considerations, econo-
over legalization. Most importantly, la France et leurs industries pharma- mic realities and cultural expectations,
for the millions of Americans who want ceutiques détiennent un quasi-monopole though research has played an impor-
to advance the cause of marijuana- sur le commerce licite des opiacés. tant part in formulating and evaluating
policy reform - or simply want to Toutes les idées reçues sur les politiques treatments for drug addiction. This
defend their own safer choice - this de lutte contre le trafic de drogues, sur volume reviews studies on drug abuse
book provides the talking points and les politiques de santé publique sont prevention and treatment strategies
information needed to make persuasive transformées par la lecture de ce livre. under five main areas: 1) Reducing
arguments to friends, family, cowor-
François-Xavier Dudouet - Paris, supply: strategies to control the flow
kers, and elected officials. of drugs from production to retail dis-
Syllepse, nov. 2009, 306p - ISBN : 978-
Steve Fox, Paul Armentano, Mason 2849502297 tribution; 2) Reducing demand - pre-
Tvert - Chelsea Green Publishing, www.syllepse.net/ vention of drug use at all stages of
2009, 192p - ISBN: 978-1603581448
www.chelseagreen.com/
Dealing with drugs. Strategy,
policy and practice
This book presents an analysis of the
strategic and policy responses to illicit
drug use in the Britain since the mid-
1980s. It looks at the ways in which
the UK government has aimed to
ensure a consistent framework for the
delivery of drugs services and inter-
ventions. It also explores a range of
political, economic, social and global
factors that have provided the context
for the development and implementa-
tion of a series of over-arching policy
measures in the last two decades. It
examines how the Criminal Justice
System has become a significant fra-
n° 29 - March 2010 - 8
• Editorial
• Online Information
2009
• Evaluation of our
Budapest meeting
• News
• Publications
• OnlineDocs
• Agenda recent attempts to control clubs and
raves and their skepticism about offi-
cial pronouncements on the dangers of
Women on probation and positions des acteurs du monde de la ecstasy and other drugs, in this book
parole. A feminist critique santé, son propos est bien de dénoncer that pivots between the local, the
of community programs and les agissements qui vont à l'encontre national, and the global in its
de l'intérêt général et de la santé publi- approach.
services
que, en braquant les projecteurs sur les
This volume, based on longitudinal, lobbies de l'alcool, du médicament, du Geoffrey Hunt, Molly Moloney, Kristin
qualitative data from probation and tabac et de l'agroalimentaire. Evans - Routledge, Jan. 2010, 288p -
parole officers and from in-depth ISBN: 978-0415374736
Roger Lenglet - Paris, Pascal, nov. www.routledge.com/
interviews with women, covers data
2009, 448p - ISBN : 978-2350190365
from two counties in the same state
www.editionspascal.com/
that differed markedly in their approa- Flashback: Drugs and dealing
ches. Gender Responsive County in the golden age of the
Two worlds of drug consump-
emphasized identifying and meeting a London rave culture
wide range of needs unique to women
tion in late modern societies
This book looks at the rave club drugs
offenders. Traditional County empha- This volume reports the findings of an
market as it took place in nightclubs,
sized compliance with rules and simi- empirical study of drug users in
dance parties, pubs and among
lar treatment for women and men. London, Amsterdam, Turin, Prague,
friendship networks in London, in the
Within this comparative frame, the Vienna and Warsaw. It reconceives the
mid to late 1990s. It focuses on the
author discusses life issues of women standard distinctions between 'hard-
organizational features of drugs pur-
offenders, including dangerous places core' and 'recreational' drug users in
chasing and selling and differentiates
where they live, relationships, and terms of their social position. The
anonymous drugs trading in public
reliance on a mix of criminal and pro- authors argue that this is closely rela-
nightclub settings, from selling among
social support networks. She demons- ted to consumption patterns rather
extended networks of friends. The sto-
trates how an innovative team of pro- than drug choice, and reveals that two
ries of several friendship groups illus-
bation officers apply a gender-respon- relatively homogenous drug worlds
trate the varied drug selling roles and
sive approach to produce positive out- exist within each of the study sites.
highlight the entrepreneurship suppor-
comes for women addicted to drugs or This leads to the development of
ting their involvement. It is argued
dependent on destructive partners. diverging drug markets : a friendly
that rave club participants were econo-
market for the integrated consumer,
Merry Morash - Northeastern mic actors who seized both the legal
and a highly commercialised one for
University Press, Nov. 2010, 208p - and illegal money-making opportuni-
the marginalised customer, where low
ISBN: 978-1555537203 ties. The camaraderie that underpinned
quality goods are sold at a higher
www.upne.com/1-55553-723-5.html rave club membership, alongside the
price. These findings have significant
busy nature of the London urban set-
implications for professionals working
Lobbying et santé. Ou comment in health, psychology and urban
ting greatly assisted drug selling acti-
certains industriels font pres- vities to expand. Told from the pers- union hin. Vor diesem Hintergrund
studies.
sion contre l'intérêt général pective of author's own membership in entstand die Fragestellung, inwiefern
Irmgard Eisenbach-Stangl, Jacek Mos- this culture, and embracing the disci-
Lobbying and health. How some es einen Zusammenhang zwischen der
kalewicz, Betsy Thom - Ashgate, June plines of urban sociology and cultural
industrialists are putting pressure Suchtmittelproblematik und dem
2009, 298p - ISBN: 978-0754677758 criminology, the book contributes to
against the general interest www.ashgate.com/ Migrationshintergrund in dieser
our knowledge of recreational drugs Bevölkerungsgruppe gibt. In der vor-
Les impératifs de santé publique se markets and cultures.
Youth, drugs, and nightlife liegenden Arbeit wurde die Frage nach
heurtent souvent à d'importants grou- Jennifer R. Ward - Willan Pub., June der Bedeutung migrationsspezifischer
pes commerciaux pour qui l'intérêt The book examines the relationships 2010, 192p - ISBN : 978-1843927914 Aspekte für die Heroinabhängigkeit
général a peu de poids face à leur inté- between the electronic dance scene www.willanpublishing.co.uk/ junger russlanddeutscher Spätaussiedler
rêt particulier. Pour influencer les and drug use for young ravers and
mittels zweier problemzentrierter
consommateurs et les décideurs politi- clubbers today. Based on over 300 Migration und Sucht- am Interviews untersucht. Um sowohl
ques, ils n'hésitent pas à recourir aux interviews with ravers, DJ's and pro- Beispiel russlanddeutscher eine themenspezifische als auch eine
services de cabinets de lobbying che- moters, the authors examine the diffe-
vronnés. Qui sont-ils ? Quelles sont
Spätaussiedler individuelle Analyse der Interviews zu
rent social groupings that make up the
leurs méthodes ? De quelles armes dis- Migration and addiction. Example ermöglichen und die Ursachen der
scene. They explore the accomplish-
posent les citoyens et le législateur ment of gender, sexuality, and Asian of German-Russian migrants Heroinabhängigkeit in den Vordergrund
pour s'opposer à leurs opérations d'in- American ethnic identity and critically zu stellen, wurde eine qualitative
Immer mehr Autoren und sozialpäda-
fluence ? Telles sont les questions analyze the negotiation of risk and Erhebung durchgeführt.
gogische Einrichtungen weisen ver-
auxquelles ce livre tente de répondre. pleasure within the world of raves and mehrt auf einen wachsenden Anstieg Anika Schipper - VDM Verlag 2009,
Sans remettre en cause le nécessaire dance clubs. We learn about young von heroinabhängigen Spätaussiedlern 108 S. - ISBN: 978-3639149432
travail d'information et de défense des ravers and clubbers' frustrations with aus den Staaten der ehemaligen Sowjet- www.neuland.com/
n° 29 - March 2010 - 9 Drugs, crime and public health. tive une série de conceptions telles society with enough force and imagi-
The political economy of drug policy que le lien entre cannabis et maladie nation to enable people to find social
mentale, la dépendance, son influence integration. Then great numbers of
Using a comparative approach - centred
sur la fertilité, son apport dans le trai- them would not need to fill their inn.
on the UK, but with insights and com-
tement de l'obésité, ainsi que les Bruce Alexander - Oxford Univ. Press,
plementary data from the USA and
méthodes de prise en charge. Il est le Feb. 2010, 488p - ISBN: 978-0199588718
other countries - the book argues that
problematic drug use can only be reflet de ce désir d'inciter à la réflexion www.oup.com/
understood in the social contexts in et de construire un savoir réel sur le
which it takes place. It demonstrates phénomène cannabis. What is addiction?
• Editorial the social and spatial overlap of these Emmanuel Streel - Bruxelles, De Boeck, In this book, leading researchers survey
contexts, examining the focus of oct. 2009, 131p - ISBN: 978-2804102050 the latest findings in addiction science.
• Online Information contemporary drug policy on crime http://superieur.deboeck.com/ They discuss such questions as whether
2009 reduction. This focus has made it less, addiction is one kind of condition, or
• Evaluation of our rather than more, likely that long-term The globalization of addiction. several; if addiction is neurophysiolo-
Budapest meeting solutions will be produced for drugs, A study in poverty of the spirit gical, psychological, or social, or
crime and health inequalities. It con- Scientific medicine has failed when it incorporates aspects of all of these; to
• News cludes, through examining competing comes to addiction. There are no relia- what extent addicts are responsible for
visions for the future of drug policy, their problems, and how this affects
• Publications with an argument for social solutions
ble methods to cure it, to prevent it.
health and regulatory policies; and
There is no consensus on what addic-
• OnlineDocs to these social problems. tion is, what causes it, or what should whether addiction is determined by
Alex Stevens - Routledge-Cavendish, inheritance or environment or both.
• Agenda Sept 2010, 224p - ISBN: 978-0415491044
be done about it. Meanwhile, it conti-
They also discuss the possibility of a
nues to increase around the world.
www.routledgelaw.com/ This book argues that the cause of this unifying basis for different addictions
failure is that the conventional wisdom (considering both substance addiction
Le cannabis en questions. of the two last centuries focused too and pathological gambling), offering
Santé mentale, dépendance, ferti- both neurally and neuroscientifically
single-mindedly on the individual
lité et autres thèmes reconsidérés grounded accounts as well as discus-
addict. The prevalence differs dramati-
sions of the social context of addiction.
Cannabis in question. Mental cally between societies: it can be rare
There can be no definitive answer yet
health, dependency, fertility and in a society for centuries, and become
to the question posed by the title, but
other points reconsidered common when a tribal culture is des-
these essays demonstrate a sweeping
Aujourd'hui, la majorité des experts, troyed or when a highly developed
advance over the simplistic conception
influencés par leurs convictions, ne civilization collapses. When addiction
embedded in popular culture.
prennent que peu de recul scientifique becomes common in a society, people
become addicted not only to alcohol Don Ross, Harold Kincaid, David
et se contentent d'accumuler des résul- Spurrett & Peter Collins - MITPress,
tats de recherches pour soutenir des and drugs, but to a thousand other des-
tructive pursuits: money, power, dys- March 2010, 467p - ISBN: 978-
hypothèses souvent improbables. De 0262513111
ce fait, le vrai, le faux, les hypothèses functional relationships, or video games.
A social perspective on addiction does http://mitpress.mit.edu/
et l'approximatif se mélangent allégre-
ment dans l'esprit des gens. Certains not deny individual differences in vul-
nerability to addiction, but it removes A choice theory approach
pensent que le cannabis rend fou, qu'il
est responsable de la violence dans les them from the foreground of attention to drug and alcohol abuse
cités, qu'il est la cause principale des because social determinants are more The book takes a look at the addict's
accidents de la route, qu'il entraîne powerful. The social circumstances behaviour and deals with the client's
vers d'autres drogues, que tous les that spread addiction are built into unhappiness as the cause of their use
usagers sont dépendants. Ces affirma- today's globalizing free-market society. and reliance on a substance to deal
tions inexactes contribuent à pointer A free-market society is magnificently with stress and unwanted emotions.
du doigt le cannabis. Le problème est productive, but it subjects people to Constant use ultimately leads to even-
bien plus large : le cannabis est le pressures towards individualism and tual dependence as a result of the body's
symptôme d'une société qui désinforme. competition, tearing rich and poor adjustment to living with a drug that is
Les problèmes d'une société ne sont alike from the close social ties that continuously being introduced into the
pas imputables à une seule cause (le normally constitute human life. People body and brain. The author takes the
cannabis), mais le fruit de dysfonc- adapt to their dislocation by finding position that drug and alcohol abuse is
tionnements préventifs, législatifs et the best substitutes for a sustaining not a mental illness, but a physiological
thérapeutiques. Il est dangereux d'af- social life, and addiction serves this dependence which does not fit within
firmer ce que nous sommes encore en function all too well. The book argues the criteria of mental illness or medical
train d'essayer de comprendre : nous that the most effective response to a disease. His theory deals with creating
devons inciter à la réflexion et non growing addiction problem is a social new or reconnecting relationships with
imposer des points de vue. Ce livre and political one, rather than an indi- the important people in one's life as
remet en question de façon construc- vidual one. The solution is to reshape well as learning methods to deal with
unhappiness instead of trying to satisfy
it with short term pleasure from a drug.
Mike Rice - Madeira Pub., Sept. 2009,
218p - ISBN: 978-1449501075
http://shop.madeirapublishing.com/
Rethinking substance abuse.
What the science shows, and
what we should do about it
While knowledge on substance abuse
and addictions is expanding, clinical
practice still lags behind. This book
brings together leading experts to des-
cribe what treatment and prevention
would look like if it based on the best
science available. It incorporates deve-
lopmental, neurobiological, genetic,
behavioral, and social-environmental
perspectives. Chapters summarize cur-
rent thinking on the nature and causes
n° 29 - March 2010 - 10 tion and tailor-made psychotherapies,
leading in the long term to considera-
bly more effective results than the
rigorous abstinence therapies. In this
book, new therapeutic approaches are
described, outlining the different inter-
actions between personality, environ-
ment and the effects of the substance.
In addition to prevention-based thera-
• Editorial pies and diagnosis, essential psycholo-
gical and sociological strategies, as
• Online Information well as medication-based therapies,
2009 are also presented in detail. In addition,
the book provides an overview of the
• Evaluation of our American and European epidemiology
Budapest meeting of alcohol and nicotine addictions.
• News Otto-Michael Lesch, Henriette Walter,
Christian Wetschka, Michi Hesselbrock, jusqu'à maintenant, est le parti pris de
• Publications Victor Hesselbrock - Springer, April l'ouvrage. Elle aide à mieux compren-
• OnlineDocs 2010, 380p - ISBN: 978-3709101452 dre les drogues, leurs modes d'actions
www.springer.com et les dépendances qui en découlent.
• Agenda Lucas Salomon - Paris, Belin, fév.
Dictionnaire des drogues 2010 - ISBN: 978-2701151137
of alcohol and other drug problems; et des dépendances www.editions-belin.com/
discuss what works at the individual, Dictionary on drugs and addictions
family, and societal levels; and offer Learning the language
Ce dictionnaire amène une réflexion
principles for developing more effec- nouvelle sur des questions d'actualité : of addiction counseling
tive, humane treatments and services. lutte contre le tabagisme, alcoolisme The rampant growth of addiction
William R. Miller & Kathleen M. des adolescents, raves, jeu excessif, etc. requires counselors to become know-
Carroll - Guilford, 2nd ed. May 2010, Il recouvre des notions historiques, ledgeable in the dynamics of addiction.
320p - ISBN: 978-1606236987 sociologiques, pharmacologiques, This revised third edition covers signi-
www.guilford.com/ médicales, juridiques et culturelles ficant changes in theory and research
liées aux drogues et aux dépendances. that have emerged over the past five
Addiction by design: machine Outre la consommation des psychotro- years. Two new chapters have been
gambling in Las Vegas pes illicites, il prend en compte l'en- added, and a Cd-Rom with clinical
semble des pharmacodépendances group exercises. The volume provides
Recent decades have seen a dramatic students and practicing counselors the
(alcool, tabac, produits dopants, médi-
shift away from social forms of gam- knowledge and techniques needed to
caments, café, chocolat, etc.) ou
bling played around roulette wheels treat addicted individuals.
dépendances sans produits (troubles
and card tables to solitary gambling at
des conduites alimentaires, kleptoma- Geri Miller - John Wiley & Sons, 3rd ed,
electronic terminals. Drawing on 15 years
nie, sexe, jeu, religion, sectes, ordina- July 2010, 416p - ISBN: 978-0470505236
of research, the author shows how the
teur, crime, soleil, sucre, etc.). Cette http://eu.wiley.com/
rhythm of electronic gambling pulls
édition largement mise à jour, englobe
players into a trancelike state called
la récente loi Bachelot et les statistiques Methadone-related overdose
the "machine zone," in which worries,
publiées en 2009. Ses références et deaths: factors and prevention
social demands, and bodily awareness contacts seront utiles aux soignants
fade away. Once in the zone, gamblers measures
comme aux personnes dépendantes.
play not to win but to keep playing, Methadone is a long-acting opioid
for as long as possible, at the cost of Denis Richard, Jean-Louis Senon,
medication that is used as a pain relie-
physical and economic exhaustion. Marc Valleur - Paris, Larousse, nov.
ver and to treat individuals addicted to
Gamblers seek to lose themselves while 2009, 751 p - ISBN : 978-2035845375
heroin and certain prescription drugs.
the gambling industry seeks profit. The www.eyrolles.com/
Although information on methadone-
author describes the strategic calcula- associated overdose is limited, availa-
tions behind game algorithms, machine Addiction.
ble data suggest that methadone's gro-
ergonomics, casino architecture and A reference encyclopedia wing use for pain management has
ambience, and cash access systems, all This book is a reference guide with made more of the drug available, thus
designed to meet the market's desire answers to many questions people contributing to the rise in methadone-
for maximum "time on device." Her have about addiction and addictive associated overdose deaths. This book
account moves from casino floors into behaviors of all kinds, including examines the regulation of methadone,
gamblers' lives, from gambling industry drugs, alcohol, gambling, sex, Internet factors that have contributed to the
conventions and Gamblers Anonymous usage, and more… increase in these deaths, and steps
meetings to debates over whether Howard Padwa & Jacob Cunningham taken to prevent them. It also identifies
addiction to gambling machines stems - ABC-Clio, Jan. 2010, 418p - ISBN: selected efforts to prevent methadone
from the consumer, the product, or the 978-1598842296 abuse and overdose deaths that focused
interplay between the two. www.abc-clio.com/ on education, safety and monitoring.
Natasha Dow Schull - Princeton Maxime G. Lejeune - Nova Science,
University Press, Sept. 2010, 256p - Cerveau, drogues Spring 2010 - ISBN: 978-1608760664
ISBN: 978-0691127552 et dépendances www.novapublishers.com/
http://press.princeton.edu/ Brain, drugs and dependences
Ce livre raconte d'abord des histoires Addictive disorders
Alcohol and nicotine. Medical in medical populations
de drogues et donne ensuite les clefs
and sociological aspects of du fonctionnement de notre cerveau Drug and alcohol addictions occur
usage, abuse and addiction avant de développer l'impact des subs- commonly in medical populations; 25
Alcohol and nicotine addiction mostly tances elles-mêmes sur le corps et to 50% of patients have alcohol and
occur together. Over the last ten years leurs effets à long terme. Les mécanis- drug disorders, with even higher pre-
therapeutic aspects and motivational mes communs, les spécificités des dif- valence in certain medical fields.
strategies have been improved. Groups férents produits et les nouvelles voies Currently, there are no authoritative
and subgroups have been defined and de recherche y sont ainsi décortiqués. texts that focus on this problem.
can be treated with specific medica- La vision neurobiologique, peu décrite Neurobiological progress in the fieldYou can also read
