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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791812003321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-283-90508-6

0-85700-369-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MallochMargaret S

YatesRowdy <1950->

Disciplina

616.86/06

Soggetti

Drug addiction - Treatment - Great Britain

Therapeutic communities - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.