Internet-based drug treatment interventions : best practice and applications in EU Member States. / Prepared by Dr. Hans-Peter Tossmann and Fabian Leuschner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.

Series:

EMCDDA insights series ; 10.

EMCDDA insights series, 1606-1683 ; no. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug abuse--Treatment--European Union countries--Congresses.

Drug abuse.

Drug abuse--Treatment.

European Union countries.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

89 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Luxembourg : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2009.

Summary:

This report provides a comprehensive review of the relatively new phenomenon of Internet-based drug treatment interventions (DTI). It presents a sample of Internet-based DTI programs across Europe and outlines their methodologies, providing a series of screenshots to further demonstrate the websites' content and to provide an overall impression of the types of online treatment available. This publication is a resource for researchers, policymakers and the general public, to gain an insight into the potential for the Internet to become a new channel for drug treatment intervention.--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Background

Methods

Findings

Outline of European internet-based DTIs

Discussion

Future of internet-based DTIs in the European Union.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-88).

ISBN:

9789291683482

9291683485

OCLC:

380375371