Responding to Drug Misuse (eBook, ePUB)

Research and Policy Priorities in Health and Social Care
Redaktion: Macgregor, Susanne

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 consider the relevance of the findings for policy and practice. Topics discussed include:recent trends in drug policy and how these link to crimeresponses of dedicated drug treatment servicesservice users' perceptions and suggestions for improvementthe impact of drug misuse on children, families and communities.This timely addition to the literature on drug misuse will be essential for substance use practitioners, including social workers, psychiatrists, psychologists and nurses. It will also supply helpful guidance for health and social care commissioners and policy providers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135211691
• Artikelnr.: 38244175

Autorenporträt

Susanne MacGregor holds a Leverhulme Emeritus Research Fellowship at the Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and is the Programme Coordinator for the Department of Health's Drugs Misuse Research Initiative.

Inhaltsangabe

MacGregor
Policy Responses to the Drugs Problem. Duke
The Focus on Crime and Coercion in UK Drugs Policy. Macleod
Drug-taking and its Psycho-social Consequences. Raistrick
Tober
Godfrey
Parrott
Treatment as Usual. Weaver
Goyder
Hart
Fehler
Metrebian
Crawford
Care Co-ordination in Drug Treatment Services. Donmall
Millar
The Effect of Waiting for Treatment. Radcliffe
Stevens
Early Exit: Estimating and Explaining Early Exit from Drug Treatment. Neale
Godfrey
Parrott
Sheard
Tompkins
Barriers to the Effective Treatment of Injecting Drug Users. Metrebian
Sell
Shanahan
Carnwath
Alcorn
Ruben
Mehdikhani
Stimson
Prescribing Injectable Opiates for the Treatment of Opiate Dependence. Kouimtsidis
Drummond
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Opiate Misusers in Methadone Maintenance Treatment. Crawford
Patterson
Agath
Weaver
Involving Service Users in Efforts to Improve the Quality of Drug Misuse Services. Weaver
Charles
Barnes
Tyrer
Co-morbidity in Treatment Populations. Frisher
Crome
Martino
Bashford
Croft
Epidemiology of Drug Misuse and Psychiatric Co-morbidity in Primary Care. Orford
Copello
Simon
Waheed
Fazil
Graham
Mahmood
McNeil
Roberts
Offering a Service to BME Family Members Affected by Close Relatives' Drug Problems. Clay
Corlyon
A Review of Services for Children and Young People with Drugs Misusing Carers. Kroll
Taylor
Dilemmas in Intervening Effectively in Families Where There is Parental Drug Misuse. MacGregor
Evidence and New Policy Questions.