Tackling addiction : pathways to recovery / edited by Rowdy Yates and Margaret S. Malloch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Malloch, Margaret S.

Yates, Rowdy, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug addiction--Treatment--Great Britain.

Drug addiction.

Therapeutic communities--Great Britain.

Therapeutic communities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Philadelphia, PA : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This edited collection brings together the thoughts and experiences of researchers, practitioners and service users from the fields of health, addiction and criminal justice and centres on current developments in addiction policy and practice. Tackling Addiction examines what recovery, addiction and dependence really mean.

Contents:

FRONT COVER; Tackling Addiction:Pathways to Recovery; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Introduction; 1. The Road Less Traveled? A Short History of Addiction Recovery; 2. Mapping Routes to Recovery: The Role of Recovery Groups and Communities; 3. Recovery in the Project: A South East Alternatives Journ; 4. Women in Recovery; 5. The Therapeutic Community: A Recovery-Oriented Treatment Pathway and the Emergence of a Recovery-Oriented Integrated System; 6. NW ROIS: Recovery-Oriented Integrated Systems in North West England; 7. The Therapeutic Community as a Method of Intervention; 8. Voices of Recovery

9. Recovery, a Clinical Reality 10. Evidence and Policy: Crime and Public Health in UK Drug Pol; 11. Recovery, Desistance and 'Coerced' Drug Treatment; Some Concluding Thoughts; CONTRIBUTORS; SUBJECT INDEX; AUTHOR INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-90508-6

0-85700-369-0

OCLC:

699510029