Name: Heroin Addiction and Drug Policy By John Strang
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Heroin Addiction and Drug Policy: The British System by John Strang

The British System is internationally famous as a means of managing heroin addiction, but is widely misunderstood. This book provides a definitive contemporary account of its past, present, and possible future, set in the context of international activities. It includes several previously unrecorded accounts of events during critical periods, together with an examination of contemporary key issues.

Part I: The problem; The early years of the British System in practice; Drug trends since 1968; Flexible hierarchies and dynamic disorder - the trading and distribution of illicit heroin in Britain and Europe, 1970-90; Drugs and adolescence; Use of public health indicators of the extent and nature of drug problems during the 1970s and 1980s; Women drug misusers: a case for special consideration; The arrival of HIV; Local and regional variations in drug misuse: the British heroin epidemic of the 1980s; Chasing the dragon: the development of heroin smoking in the United Kingdom; Use of illegal drugs in Northern Ireland; Part II: Clinical response; The fall and rise of the general practitioner; The creation of the clinics: clinical demand and the formation of policy; Drug clinics in the 1970s; Prescribing heroin and other injectable drugs; The introduction of community drug teams across the UK; The development of the Voluntary Sector: no further need for pioneers?; The power behind the practice: drug control; and harm minimization in inter-agency and criminal law contexts; Changes in therapeutic communities in the UK; Narcotics Anonymous (NA) in Britain; Minimizing harm from drug use; Part III: Other responses; Promoting new services: the Central Funding Initiative and other mechanisms; Notification and the Home Office; The growth of information. The development of Britain's national Drug Misuse Information Resource; Media- and school-based approaches to drug education; HIV and drugs services - the challenge of change; The relationship between the State and local practice in the development of national policy on drugs; The British System: visionary anticipation or masterly inactivity?.

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9780192620460

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0192620460

Title

Heroin Addiction and Drug Policy: The British System by John Strang

Author

John Strang

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Hardback

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Year published

19940900

Number of pages

374

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Heroin Addiction and Drug Policy John Strang

Heroin Addiction and Drug Policy by John Strang

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