Title Responding to drug misuse : research and policy priorities in health and social care / edited by Susanne MacGregor

Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 247 pages) : illustrations Contents Policy responses to the drugs problem / Susanne MacGregor -- The focus on crime and coercion in UK drugs policy / Karen Duke -- Drug-taking and its psycho-social consequences / John Macleod -- Treatment as usual / Duncan Raistrick [and others] -- Care co-ordination in drug treatment services / Tim Weaver [and others] -- The effect of waiting for treatment / Mike Donmall and Tim Millar -- Early exit : estimating and explaining early exit from drug treatment / Polly Radcliffe and Alex Stevens -- Barriers to the effective treatment of injecting drug users / Joanne Neale [and others] -- Prescribing injectable opiates for the treatment of opiate dependence / Nicola Metrebian [and others] -- Cognitive behaviour therapy for opiate misusers in methadone maintenance treatment / Christos Kouimtsidis and Colin Drummond on behalf of the UKCBTMM project group -- Involving service users in efforts to improve the quality of drug misuse services / Mike Crawford [and others] -- Co-morbidity in treatment populations / Tim Weaver [and others] -- Epidemiology of drug misuse and psychiatric co-morbidity in primary care / Martin Frisher [and others] -- Offering a service to BME family members affected by close relatives' drug problems / Jim Orford [and others] -- A review of services for children and young people with drugs misusing carers / Daniel Clay and Judy Corlyon -- Dilemmas in intervening effectively in families where there is parental drug misuse / Brynna Kroll and Andy Taylor -- Evidence and new policy questions / Susanne MacGregor Summary This book provides a unique insight into the current shape of the drugs treatment system in England. It discusses findings of the Department of Health, placing them in the context of policy, practice, and service development Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-241) and index Notes Print version record Subject Drug abuse -- Great Britain Drugs -- Social aspects -- Great Britain Drug addicts -- Rehabilitation -- Great Britain Medical policy. Substance-Related Disorders -- rehabilitation Drug Users Health Policy SELF-HELP -- Substance Abuse & Addictions -- General. PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- Addiction. Medical policy Drug abuse Drug addicts -- Rehabilitation Drugs -- Social aspects SUBJECT United Kingdom Subject Great Britain Form Electronic book Author MacGregor, Susanne ISBN 9780203872253 0203872258 9780415474702 0415474701

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