A dominant theme in addiction studies is how addicted individuals become stigmatised, excluded and marginalised as a result of their drug addiction - and the often dysfunctional and anti-social behaviour that follows. Max Dennehy and Thaddeus Müller report (in: Stigma and drug use: Research perspectives from Europe),"often, the experiences of exclusion and stigmatisation start well before the ´addicts´ have ever picked up a drug. Our research conveys the reality that many of our most excluded, marginalised, and stigmatised people who use drugs have a chronic history of stigmatisation and exclusion that dates back to early childhood. Often, addiction is a symptom of exclusion, not the cause."

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Studies confirm "that it is crucial to look at patterns of drug-crime trajectories with renewed lenses, able to go beyond traditional explanations which regarded the pharmacological effects of drugs as the main motive for offending. In particular, we argue that we cannot fully understand youth drug use and offending without considering them as a part of those who were referred to as ´subterranean values´ of capitalism which have moved above ground to become well-settled features of contemporary society," Sara Rolando and colleagues emphasize in ´Who? Variation and distinction in the European drugs landscape´.

Each year 125.000 children are born in the EU with a height that falls below the 2.5th percentile and thereby are considered to have a short stature. Short stature and growth failure are often confused. Growth failure is a pathologic state of abnormally low growth rate over time and a growth deviation from a previously defined growth percentile, whereas short stature can also be due to a normal variation in human height. The European QoLISSY Group describes how to assess the social and psychological quality of life of children and adolescents with short stature and their parents. The handbook includes the QoLISSY questionaire user´s manual (incl. CD-Rom).

Why is the work of Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920), the founder of scientific psychology, still helpful, interesting, stimulating and relevant today? Prof. Dr. Jochen Fahrenberg explains: