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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

MacGregor, Susanne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug abuse--Great Britain.

Drug abuse.

Drugs--Social aspects--Great Britain.

Drugs.

Drug addicts--Rehabilitation--Great Britain.

Drug addicts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Responding to Drug Misuse provides a unique insight into the current shape of the drugs treatment system in England.Reporting findings from research linked to the government's ten year drugs strategy Tackling Drugs to Build a Better Britain, the book places these in the context of policy, practice, and service development. It goes on to discuss the implications of these findings for the government's new strategy Drugs: Protecting Families and Communities. Throughout the book contributors reflect on current debates on drug strategies and social policy and co

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Figures; Boxes; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Policy responses to the drugs problem; 2 The focus on crime and coercion in UK drugs policy; 3 Drug-taking and its psychosocial consequences; 4 'Treatment as Usual'; 5 Care co-ordination in drug treatment services; 6 The effect of waiting for treatment; 7 Early exit: estimating and explaining early exit from drug treatment; 8 Barriers to the effective treatment of injecting drug users; 9 Prescribing injectable opiates for the treatment of opiate dependence

10 Cognitive behaviour therapy for opiate misusers in methadone maintenance treatment11 Involving service users in efforts to improve the quality of drug misuse services; 12 Co-morbidity in treatment populations; 13 Epidemiology of drug misuse and psychiatric comorbidity in primary care; 14 Offering a service to BME family members affected by close relatives' drug problems; 15 A review of services for children and young people with drug-misusing carers; 16 Dilemmas in intervening effectively in families where there is parental drug misuse; 17 Evidence and new policy questions; References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-21170-1

1-282-28431-2

9786612284311

0-203-87225-8

9780203872253

OCLC:

471700345