April Shaw

Biographic Data

ID5810589
NAMEApril Shaw
GIVEN NAMESApril
FAMILY NAMEShaw
SIGNATURESHAW A
AFFILIATIONSAction on Smoking and Health
ORCID0000-0001-7559-3427
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1981
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • ‘Addiction never seems to be historic’

    Open AccessApril Shaw, R V GundurARTICLEDrugs Education Prevention and…2026

    Background This qualitative study examines how women in recovery from illicit drug use perceive their communications with health care professionals when seeking care for various health issues and how these communications impact their health-seeking behaviors.Methods In-depth qualitative interviews were undertaken with 19 women in the UK, aged over 35 who self-identified as ‘in recovery’ from illicit drug use. Thematic analysis was used to analyze…

  • Optimal provision of opioid agonist therapy (OAT) and needle and syringe programmes (NSP)

    Open AccessPeter Mcculloch, Hannah Family et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Drug…2026

    These findings show how interacting relational and structural mechanisms generate optimal outcomes, guiding policy and service design. Implementing a multi-agency approach, integrating different mechanisms across the identified contexts, may be necessary to achieve optimal service delivery

  • Women in mid-life and older age in recovery from illicit drug use

    Open AccessApril ShawARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2023

    This investigation into substance use recovery among women in mid-life and older age offers new insights into the relationship challenges they face. It offers suggestions for further research that could support the development of family support programs for mid-life and older age women in active drug use or recovery

  • Paying Attention to Women's Ageing Bodies in Recovery From Substance Use

    Open AccessApril Shaw, Gerda Reith et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2022

    Moving from the body in active drug use to the body in recovery is not without its challenges for mid-life and older women. New sensations and feelings-physical and mental-must be re-interpreted in light of their ageing and drug-free bodies. This study reveals some of the substantive sex-based differences that older women in active drug use and recovery experience. This has important implications for healthcare and treatment for women in drug ser…

  • How do policy advisors and practitioners prioritise the protection of children from secondhand smoke exposure in a country with advanced tobacco control policy

    Open AccessDeborah Ritchie, Deborah Doreen Ritchie et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2013

    In a country, such as Scotland, with advanced tobacco control strategies, there continue to be challenges to policy and practice development in the more contentious arena of the home. Children's SHSE in their homes is unequivocally accepted as an important health priority, but it is not currently perceived to be a top public health priority in Scotland

  • Refresh—reducing families' exposure to secondhand smoke in the home

    Inga Wilson, Sean Semple et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2012

    Providing mothers who smoke with personalised results about the indoor air quality of their homes along with a motivational interview is feasible and has an effect on improving household air quality. Participants found the intervention understandable and acceptable. Taken overall, the results suggest that a future large-scale trial using measurements of indoor air quality as part of a complex intervention to reduce children's SHS exposure should …

  • Distributive industry in the UK to the year 1995

    Open AccessAnne Parkinson, A M Parkinson et al.ARTICLEFutures1981