Heroin Addiction and The British System: Volume II Treatment & Policy Responses

Michael Gossop, John Strang

Routledge, Aug 2, 2004 - Medical - 240 pages

The British system of dealing with drug addiction is notable for its flexibility and its capacity to adapt to changing circumstances. Because of this it has attracted considerable international interest, although it is rarely fully understood or accurately represented.

Presenting a comprehensive account of the development of policies and treatments, Heroin Addiction brings together the perspectives of policy makers, practitioners and social commentators. The book contributes to a proper understanding of how policy and practice has evolved so that lessons for future policy and practice may be identified.
Volume II of Heroin Addiction charts the development and use of treatment and policy responses in the UK, highlighting the limitations of these approaches as well as their achievements. It is a unique source of reference for students, researchers, healthcare professionals and drug agencies both in the UK and overseas.

Contents

• 1 The history of prescribing heroin and other injectable drugs as addiction treatment in the UK: 1
• clinical demand and the formation of policy: 17
• Everything will be alright when the new place is built: 28
• 4 Uncertainty within the drug clinics in the 1970s: 41
• 5 The fall and rise of the general practitioner: 53
• a new British System: 68
• reflecting on the problems as well as the potential: 81
• the gap between aspiration and achievement: 93
• 9 The coming of age of oral methadone maintenance treatment in the UK in the 1990s: 104
• in pursuit of an evidence base for good clinical practice: 119
• 11 Experimental amphetamine maintenance prescribing: 129
• 12 Needle exchange in Britain: 142
• 13 The emergence of citywide public health responses to the drugs problem: 153
• the stepping up of the phenomenon: 164
• 15 The origins arrival and spread of residential Minnesota Model centres across the UK: 172
• the new drug treatment and testing orders: 184
• the promotion of an evidencebased approach: 195
• extraordinary individual freedom but to what end?: 203
• Index: 217

Bibliographic information

• Title: Heroin Addiction and The British System: Volume II Treatment & Policy Responses
• Editors: Michael Gossop, John Strang
• Publisher: Routledge, 2004
• ISBN: 1134428502, 9781134428502
• Length: 240 pages
• Subjects: Medical / Health Care Delivery; Political Science / Public Policy / General; Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy; Psychology / Psychopathology / Addiction; Psychology / Psychotherapy / General; Social Science / Disease & Health Issues; Social Science / Sociology / General