Responding to drugs misuse [[electronic resource] ] : research and policy priorities in health and social care / / edited by Susanne MacGregor

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910819152303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY, : Routledge, 2009
• ISBN: 1-135-21170-1; 1-282-28431-2; 9786612284311; 0-203-87225-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (268 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): MacGregorSusanne
• Disciplina: 362.29/15
• Soggetti: Drug abuse - Great Britain; Drugs - Social aspects - Great Britain; Drug addicts - Rehabilitation - 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: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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