Heroin
Subtitle: the treatment of addiction in twentieth-century Britain
By: Alex Mold.
Series: Drugs and alcohol : contested histories
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: DeKalb
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780875803869
Subjects: Heroin abuse -- Great Britain -- 20th century; Heroin abuse -- Great Britain -- Prevention; Heroin abuse -- Treatment -- Great Britain; Drug control -- Great Britain
Description: x, 236 p. ; 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-227) and index.
Table of contents: title: Treatment and control : the 'British system', 1916-1961; title: The new addicts and the establishment of the drug dependence units, 1962-1968; title: Psychiatry and the treatment of addiction, 1969-1979; title: The heroin explosion and the re-intervention of the generalist, 1980-1987; title: Disputed territory : the treatment of heroin addiction in private practice, 1980-1987; title: Disputed methods : maintenance and withdrawal, 1980-1987; title: The impact of HIV/AIDS on heroin addiction treatment, 1984-1994; title: Treatment works? Drug policy and addiction treatment since 1994; title: Conclusion: The treatment of heroin addiction; title: past, present, and future.