03603nam 2200637Ia 450 991077790590332120230207230427.01-135-21170-11-282-28431-297866122843110-203-87225-8(CKB)1000000000784109(EBL)449461(OCoLC)471700345(SSID)ssj0000342376(PQKBManifestationID)11258816(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000342376(PQKBWorkID)10285074(PQKB)11054481(MiAaPQ)EBC449461(Au-PeEL)EBL449461(CaPaEBR)ebr10330936(CaONFJC)MIL228431(EXLCZ)99100000000078410920090309d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrResponding to drugs misuse[electronic resource] research and policy priorities in health and social care /edited by Susanne MacGregorNew York, NY Routledge20091 online resource (268 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-138-98530-9 0-415-47470-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 dependence10 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; ReferencesIndexResponding 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 coDrug abuseGreat BritainDrugsSocial aspectsGreat BritainDrug addictsRehabilitationGreat BritainDrug abuseDrugsSocial aspectsDrug addictsRehabilitation362.29/15MacGregor Susanne856604MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777905903321Responding to drugs misuse3812645UNINA