Richard Hammersley
Biographic Data
| ID | 311942 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Hammersley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Hammersley |
| SIGNATURE | HAMMERSLEY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Glasgow Caledonian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0172-7899 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Harm reduction and quitting techniques used by heavy MDMA (ecstasy) users
This paper examines the strategies that ex-heavy users of MDMA employed to quit, control, or cut down MDMA use. It uses data from an online qualitative study of the life stories of ex-heavy MDMA users, taking a harm reduction perspective, rather than focusing on the pharmaceutical and problematic aspects of MDMA use. The research applied a mixed-methods approach using an online survey containing open-ended questions directed at self-identified ex…
Stuffing down feelings
This study aimed to explore the life stories of people with eating disorders (EDs) in order to better understand possible contributing factors to their development. It used a qualitative Life Story method, in order to reduce the tendency to focus on the negative in the lives of people with EDs. Sixteen people in contact with an EDs charity participated. Data were analysed using a thematic analysis. Despite the attempt to elicit both positive and …
Trauma in the childhood stories of people who have injected drugs
Aim: To document childhood trauma in the life stories of people who have injected drugs. Method: Fifty-five participants (38 m, 17 f) recruited via Scottish recovery networks, who had injected drugs in the previous five years, were interviewed by peer researchers using the Life Story method. Results: Remembered childhood trauma included persistent violence, repeated sexual abuse, neglect and traumatic bereavements. Many traumas were related to ad…
Constraint theory
Aims: A new theory of substance dependence is presented that models dependence as the absence of cognitive constraints on substance use.Methods: (1) Critical review of the predominant paradigm that assumes that substance dependence is a pathological state fundamentally caused by the neuropsychopharmacological effects of drugs (NPP paradigm) identified four counter-factual assumptions. Contrary to the NPP paradigm: (I) dependence can occur on a-ty…
Paris et Londres en miroir
Journal Article Paris et Londres en miroir: Lettres de voyage: extraites du Babillard de Jean-Jacques Rutlidge Get access Paris et Londres en miroir: Lettres de voyage: extraites du Babillard de Jean-Jacques Rutlidge. Edited By Monnier Raymonde. Saint-Étienne: Publications de l’Université de Saint-Étienne – Société Française d’Étude du XVIIIe Siècle. 2010. 152 pp. €1500 ISBN 978 2 86272 544 4. Rachel Hammersley Rachel Hammersley Newcastle Univers…
The French Revolution and the Creation of Benthamism
Though he was made an honorary French citizen in 1792, Jeremy Bentham's attitude towards the French Revolution was decidedly ambivalent. Indeed, he famously condemned the notion of natural rights (sacred to many revolutionaries) as ‘nonsense on stilts’. The focus of Cyprian Blamires's book is not Bentham's own ambivalent relationship with the Revolution, but rather the impact of events in France on the development of Benthamism. There are two mai…
Developing a sociology of normal substance use
Effects of sucrose added blind to the diet over eight weeks on body mass and mood in men
Pathways through drugs and crime
Effects of sucrose drinks on macronutrient intake, body weight, and mood state in overweight women over 4 weeks
Eating Disorders Patients' Views on Their Disorders and on an Outpatient Service
The objective of the study was to determine sufferers' views of outpatient treatment for eating disorders and provide practical recommendations for treatment practice. Twenty NHS outpatients participated in semi-structured interviews, which were subjected to thematic analysis. Respondents expressed ambivalence about whether their eating disorder is a way of exerting control or a disorder that controls them and this leads to them seeking treatment…
Drug use and other problems of residents in projects for the young, single homeless
One hundred people who make use of an organization housing the young, single homeless were interviewed using a semi-structured interview. There was a high prevalence of problems, including substance abuse and dependence, other mental health problems, extensive use of health services and extensive experience of crime both as victim and perpetrator. Most people said they had become homeless because they did not get on with their parents. Since beco…
Patterns of cannabis use and positive and negative experiences of use amongst university students
Aims. To examine cannabis users' patterns of use, their experiences of the positive and negative effects of use, their use of other substances and possible health risks, in the context of increased prevalence of use. Methods. A snowball sample of student cannabis users in the South East England (n = 176) were interviewed with an extensive structured questionnaire that asked about frequency of use of cannabis, of other substances, of methods of us…
Theorizing normal drug use
Partnership in Working with Young Offenders with Substance Misuse Problems
This article describes the quality of the partnerships between youth offending teams and substance misuse projects working with young offenders. It draws on local evaluations of 25 projects funded by the Youth Justice Board's Development Fund from 1999 to 2002. For the most part, the relationships were described in mainly positive terms but a number of areas of potential and actual conflict were identified, notably confidentiality, referral crite…
Relationships between the Food Expectancy Questionnaire (FEQ) and the Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ)
Why the Pervasive Addiction Myth is Still Believed
This paper characterises the myth of addiction and considers social mechanisms that may sustain this discourse about substance use problems in the face of counter-evidence. The myth is that substance use is typified by addiction, which is a dramatic, dangerous and chronic condition primarily caused by the biological effects of drugs. This myth is resilient and has been applied to different substances. Among the simple social mechanisms that may s…
Cannabis use and Social Identity
Cannabis use has become common, but we still understand little about how and why people use cannabis. This paper theorises the relationship between cannabis use and social identity, suggesting that cannabis use is an important aspect of many people's identities, and that the reasons for, or meaning, of cannabis use change and vary, over time and by situation. If cannabis use is important to people's identities, then this needs to be understood in…
Breakfast outcome expectancies modestly predict self-reported diet
Patterns of ecstasy use by drug users
To establish patterns of MDMA (ecstasy) use and relate these to other substance use, health and social problems related to ecstasy use, a multi-site chain-referral sample was recruited via the 'dance scene' in Glasgow. Two hundred and twenty-nine participants were interviewed, including 20 controls and 209 people who had used ecstasy at least once. All users used ecstasy in the context of polydrug use, in particular stimulant and hallucinogen use…
Effects of Meal Composition on Blood Alcohol Level, Psychomotor Performance and Subjective State after Ingestion of Alcohol
Planning in the Prague region
An inquiry into prospects for sustainability in mineral planning
The relationship of planning for minerals development with notions of sustainability is explored. Environmental planning control cannot hope to resolve issues of global resource usage, but should address issues of the efficient use of the resources at local and national levels, the minimization of environmental damage and the effective reuse of sites. Market‐led central government policy generally avoids issues of resource management, but some ne…
Urban conservation policy in the Czech Republic
The Effects of Sucrose on Everyday Eating in Normal Weight Men and Women
Eating Disorders Patients' Views on Their Disorders and on an Outpatient Service
The objective of the study was to determine sufferers' views of outpatient treatment for eating disorders and provide practical recommendations for treatment practice. Twenty NHS outpatients participated in semi-structured interviews, which were subjected to thematic analysis. Respondents expressed ambivalence about whether their eating disorder is a way of exerting control or a disorder that controls them and this leads to them seeking treatment…
Pathways through drugs and crime
Effects of sucrose drinks on macronutrient intake, body weight, and mood state in overweight women over 4 weeks
Geographical Aspects of Scoring Illegal Drugs
Young drug users (n=210) were asked where they would go to obtain eleven categories of illicit drug. From this information it was possible to draw up spatial availability networks for each drug. There was little difference in drug use between persons resident in relatively more or less deprived areas. However, people tended to gravitate from the less towards the more deprived areas in order to obtain drugs. There was also a tendency for subjects …
Patterns of ecstasy use by drug users
To establish patterns of MDMA (ecstasy) use and relate these to other substance use, health and social problems related to ecstasy use, a multi-site chain-referral sample was recruited via the 'dance scene' in Glasgow. Two hundred and twenty-nine participants were interviewed, including 20 controls and 209 people who had used ecstasy at least once. All users used ecstasy in the context of polydrug use, in particular stimulant and hallucinogen use…
Planning in the Prague region
Reduction of alcohol-induced performance impairment by prior ingestion of food
The study examined the effectiveness of eating a meal prior to drinking alcohol as a means of reducing both peak blood alcohol level (BAL) and alcohol-induced performance impairment. In a separate-groups design, 133 male volunteers either fasted or received a standard meal of fixed calorific value and composition. Alcohol was then administered as placebo or at doses to achieve a BAL of 0, 20, 40 or 80 mg/100 ml. Subjects performed a dual task of …
Drug use and other problems of residents in projects for the young, single homeless
One hundred people who make use of an organization housing the young, single homeless were interviewed using a semi-structured interview. There was a high prevalence of problems, including substance abuse and dependence, other mental health problems, extensive use of health services and extensive experience of crime both as victim and perpetrator. Most people said they had become homeless because they did not get on with their parents. Since beco…
Breakfast outcome expectancies modestly predict self-reported diet
Relationships between the Food Expectancy Questionnaire (FEQ) and the Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ)
The Effects of Sucrose on Everyday Eating in Normal Weight Men and Women
What is integration? Remembering a story and remembering false implications about the story
In three experiments, subjects read a story, followed by a summary of the story that included both true and false information about the story, then recalled either the story or the summary. Subjects occasionally incorporated details of misleading summary statements into their story recalls. However, these statements were recalled as parts of the summary more often than as parts of the story. When recall was delayed a week, subjects were more misl…
Geographical Aspects of Scoring Illegal Drugs
Young drug users (n=210) were asked where they would go to obtain eleven categories of illicit drug. From this information it was possible to draw up spatial availability networks for each drug. There was little difference in drug use between persons resident in relatively more or less deprived areas. However, people tended to gravitate from the less towards the more deprived areas in order to obtain drugs. There was also a tendency for subjects …
Reduction of alcohol-induced performance impairment by prior ingestion of food
The study examined the effectiveness of eating a meal prior to drinking alcohol as a means of reducing both peak blood alcohol level (BAL) and alcohol-induced performance impairment. In a separate-groups design, 133 male volunteers either fasted or received a standard meal of fixed calorific value and composition. Alcohol was then administered as placebo or at doses to achieve a BAL of 0, 20, 40 or 80 mg/100 ml. Subjects performed a dual task of …
Drugs and Crime
Urban conservation policy in the Czech Republic
The Effects of Sucrose on Everyday Eating in Normal Weight Men and Women
An inquiry into prospects for sustainability in mineral planning
The relationship of planning for minerals development with notions of sustainability is explored. Environmental planning control cannot hope to resolve issues of global resource usage, but should address issues of the efficient use of the resources at local and national levels, the minimization of environmental damage and the effective reuse of sites. Market‐led central government policy generally avoids issues of resource management, but some ne…
Planning in the Prague region
Effects of Meal Composition on Blood Alcohol Level, Psychomotor Performance and Subjective State after Ingestion of Alcohol
Patterns of ecstasy use by drug users
To establish patterns of MDMA (ecstasy) use and relate these to other substance use, health and social problems related to ecstasy use, a multi-site chain-referral sample was recruited via the 'dance scene' in Glasgow. Two hundred and twenty-nine participants were interviewed, including 20 controls and 209 people who had used ecstasy at least once. All users used ecstasy in the context of polydrug use, in particular stimulant and hallucinogen use…
Cannabis use and Social Identity
Cannabis use has become common, but we still understand little about how and why people use cannabis. This paper theorises the relationship between cannabis use and social identity, suggesting that cannabis use is an important aspect of many people's identities, and that the reasons for, or meaning, of cannabis use change and vary, over time and by situation. If cannabis use is important to people's identities, then this needs to be understood in…
Breakfast outcome expectancies modestly predict self-reported diet
Why the Pervasive Addiction Myth is Still Believed
This paper characterises the myth of addiction and considers social mechanisms that may sustain this discourse about substance use problems in the face of counter-evidence. The myth is that substance use is typified by addiction, which is a dramatic, dangerous and chronic condition primarily caused by the biological effects of drugs. This myth is resilient and has been applied to different substances. Among the simple social mechanisms that may s…
Theorizing normal drug use
Partnership in Working with Young Offenders with Substance Misuse Problems
This article describes the quality of the partnerships between youth offending teams and substance misuse projects working with young offenders. It draws on local evaluations of 25 projects funded by the Youth Justice Board's Development Fund from 1999 to 2002. For the most part, the relationships were described in mainly positive terms but a number of areas of potential and actual conflict were identified, notably confidentiality, referral crite…
Relationships between the Food Expectancy Questionnaire (FEQ) and the Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ)
Patterns of cannabis use and positive and negative experiences of use amongst university students
Aims. To examine cannabis users' patterns of use, their experiences of the positive and negative effects of use, their use of other substances and possible health risks, in the context of increased prevalence of use. Methods. A snowball sample of student cannabis users in the South East England (n = 176) were interviewed with an extensive structured questionnaire that asked about frequency of use of cannabis, of other substances, of methods of us…
Drug use and other problems of residents in projects for the young, single homeless
One hundred people who make use of an organization housing the young, single homeless were interviewed using a semi-structured interview. There was a high prevalence of problems, including substance abuse and dependence, other mental health problems, extensive use of health services and extensive experience of crime both as victim and perpetrator. Most people said they had become homeless because they did not get on with their parents. Since beco…
Eating Disorders Patients' Views on Their Disorders and on an Outpatient Service
The objective of the study was to determine sufferers' views of outpatient treatment for eating disorders and provide practical recommendations for treatment practice. Twenty NHS outpatients participated in semi-structured interviews, which were subjected to thematic analysis. Respondents expressed ambivalence about whether their eating disorder is a way of exerting control or a disorder that controls them and this leads to them seeking treatment…
Effects of sucrose drinks on macronutrient intake, body weight, and mood state in overweight women over 4 weeks
Paris et Londres en miroir
Journal Article Paris et Londres en miroir: Lettres de voyage: extraites du Babillard de Jean-Jacques Rutlidge Get access Paris et Londres en miroir: Lettres de voyage: extraites du Babillard de Jean-Jacques Rutlidge. Edited By Monnier Raymonde. Saint-Étienne: Publications de l’Université de Saint-Étienne – Société Française d’Étude du XVIIIe Siècle. 2010. 152 pp. €1500 ISBN 978 2 86272 544 4. Rachel Hammersley Rachel Hammersley Newcastle Univers…
The French Revolution and the Creation of Benthamism
Though he was made an honorary French citizen in 1792, Jeremy Bentham's attitude towards the French Revolution was decidedly ambivalent. Indeed, he famously condemned the notion of natural rights (sacred to many revolutionaries) as ‘nonsense on stilts’. The focus of Cyprian Blamires's book is not Bentham's own ambivalent relationship with the Revolution, but rather the impact of events in France on the development of Benthamism. There are two mai…
Developing a sociology of normal substance use
Effects of sucrose added blind to the diet over eight weeks on body mass and mood in men
Pathways through drugs and crime
Psychology (21 works) · Medicine (17 works) · Psychiatry (14 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Chemistry (5 works) · Criminology (5 works)