ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the extremely wide area often referred to as substance use. Substance use can include the following substances: coffee and tea (caffeine); alcohol; tobacco (nicotine); glue; lighter fuel; cleaning fluid; illicit, non-prescribed drugs; legal, but not prescribed, drugs; and prescribed drugs. Rosenfield connects the addiction to food with drug addiction in terms of unresolved conflicts about infantile feeding at the breast. Some other key addictions which have been described subsequently, more in terms of compulsive behaviour patterns, are addictions to sexuality, paedophilia, gambling, shoplifting and arson. Local councils made grants available to local drug and alcohol services, dependent on the humanitarian arguments which could be made by each agency on an individual basis. Controversy raged at the time about the amounts of the special transitional grant and how these were determined locally. The relevant and important issue here is that local authorities became responsible for people with drug and alcohol problems.
