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Author Mars, Sarah G

Title The politics of addiction : medical conflict and drug dependence in England since the 1960s / Sarah G. Mars
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 260 pages) : illustrations
Series Science, technology and medicine in modern history
Science, technology, and medicine in modern history.
Contents 1965-2010: A Background Sketch -- Prescribing and Proscribing: The Treatment and Rehabilitation Report -- Defining 'Good Clinical Practice' -- Ambiguous Justice: The General Medical Council and Dr Ann Dally -- 'Friendly' visits and 'Evil Men': The Home Office Drugs Inspectorate -- Unifying Hierarchs and Fragmenting Individualists: Three Professional Groups -- Guidelines and the Licensing Question
Summary In the 1980s, after a period of peaceful co-existence, a bitter conflict arose between National Health Service psychiatrists and private doctors treating drug addiction. Continuing into the twenty-first century, the battle ended with most private addiction doctors being struck from the medical register. This book examines how the conflict played out and what weapons were used by each side. The contrasting organizational structures of the private and public doctors and the changing policy context help to explain why one side triumphed and the other succumbed to extensive medical discipline. Personalities also played an important part: senior civil servants took a major role in shaping British policy to their own privately held beliefs and turnover in these posts significantly affected attempts to regulate private doctors. Based on 55 oral history interviews with key players and private prescribers as well as previously undisclosed documents, The Politics of Addiction gives a detached, historical analysis of this polarised debate
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-243) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Substance abuse -- Government policy -- England -- History -- 20th century
Substance abuse -- Treatment -- England -- History -- 20th century
Politics, Practical.
Substance-Related Disorders -- therapy
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Policy Making
Politics
Private Practice -- history
State Medicine -- history
politics.
Social & cultural history -- c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period) -- England. -- 21st century.
Drug & substance abuse: social aspects -- c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period) -- England. -- 21st century.
British & Irish history -- c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period) -- England. -- 21st century.
Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 -- c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period) -- England. -- 21st century.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- Addiction.
SELF-HELP -- Substance Abuse & Addictions -- General.
History.
Politics, Practical
Substance abuse -- Government policy
Substance abuse -- Treatment
England
England
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781137272218
113727221X