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An interview with Timothy Dueck, a social work practitioner and researcher, is presented. Topics include the importance of understanding the diverse terminology, demographics, and specific interventions relevant to Indigenous populations in substance use treatment; and the impact of historical trauma, including the residential school system, on substance use disorders among Indigenous peoples in Canada.

An interview with Doctor Paul Sacco of the University of Maryland School of Social Work is presented. She explains why substance use disorders in older people are under identified and under reported. She discusses how cultural influences on drinking, substance use and attitudes could have affected substance use among older individuals. She talks about the factors that could effect the drinking patterns of older adults.

The article focuses on the history and future of the journal of social work practice in the addictions. Topics discussed include Social Workers and other allied professionals interact with person who use and misuse substances in a variety of settings, whether or not people are seeking specific assistance with their use; and according to the latest published information from the 2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health or NSDUH.

The article explores the definitions of child neglect used by a group of mothers and local authority social service workers in England. The rate of reported child neglect in England has grown steadily from 13 percent of all registered cases in 1988, to 25 percent in 1993. The Children Act provides the policy and legal framework for the care, upbringing and protection of children in England and Wales. The sample consisted of 42 mothers of young children and 26 social service workers in a city in England. The mothers were recruited and surveyed in four different support groups for mothers of young children. The mothers' reported perceptions of greater harm to children posed by neglectful situations are of great interest. One study suggests that mothers hold themselves to a high standard, regardless of their own actions or abilities to provide. England continues to provide child protection services. In such an environment, more inclusive definitions will be hard to sell, even if it means more children will be protected.