Alcoholism

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"Managing director of mines. Has a bad reputation with women, drinks a bit, has a rakish look."

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Health needs assessment report on harms and deaths through alcohol in the Lothian region, written by Katherine Davidson, Avril Mackay, and Ellen McBride. The final version of the report is dated 02/10/2024. Contents cover: alcohol consumption, affordablility of alcohol, alcohol-related health conditions and harm; alcohol-related deaths; and treatment and interventions.

Scope and Contents Comprises of correspondence sent and received by the Scottish Homosexual Rights Group’s (SHRG) Befriending Team, which includes:Correspondence between members of the Befriending Team about individual cases and organisational and administrative issues, as well as letters to and from prospective/new members and letters of resignation.Correspondence from clients to the Befriending Team asking for information and advice, contacts for external services, and arranging...

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C.G. Smith: “Marital Influences on Treatment Outcome in Alcoholism”, reprinted from 'Journal of the Irish Medical Association', 1967

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Minutes, agenda documents, papers and correspondence around the Craigmillar Alcohol Interest Group (CAIG) and Craigmillar Day Centre. Meetings cover the activities of CAIG and the Craigmillar Day Centre, fundraising, the constituency of the Day Centre, staffing, and links with related professionals and local agencies. Also includes minutes of the "CAIG Day Centre Support Group" (9 Apr 1981).

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Report by Alastair Sinclair, senior probation officer, Fife County, on his study tour in Norway (1968); magazine article Regina v. Mary Bell, Daily Telegraph (1969); Hadden, Tom and Hillyard, Paddy, Justice in Northern Ireland: A Study in Social Confidence; press statement Drunkenness offenders: Five demands for Scotland (1974); A proopsed study of some serious traffic offenders in England and Wales.

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Bound volume of pamphlets and articles by staff from the Royal Edinburgh Asylum.

Scope and Contents Reference material relating to health services, addiction, mental health services, and services for those with disabilities.Publications: Ontario Association of Social Workers Statement on General Welfare Assistance (1966); The Canadian Welfare Council Annual Reports (1959, 1960, 1963); Work for Relief: A Policy Statement by the Canadian Welfare Council (1963); Programme for the Canadian Conference on Social Welfare (1966); A Brief History of the Ontario Welfare Council (1959);...

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Topics discussed include: call cards; a membership update; a new Glasgow based group run by 'a businessman'; a newssheet called Encounter, with links to Staffordshire, appearing in Glasgow denouncing Strathclyde Switchboard; Icebreakers; the Annual Conference; and reports of a new Livingston based gay advisory service for young people established by 'self-acknowledged paedophile' and a subsequent proposal to create a list of accredited gay groups.

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Pamphlet for the opening of the Unit for the Treatment of Alcoholism, 5 February 1969. Includes information on the Unit and treatment, with programme for the day.