Community Treatment of Drug Misuse
Subtitle: More Than Methadone
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780511533884; 9781283331272
Subjects: Drug addiction
Description: Covers a wide range of treatment options for drug misuse and dependence in a practically orientated and academic manner.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction: community treatment in context; Chapter 1 Methadone: the main treatment for the main presenting drug problem; Chapter 2 More than methadone? The case for other substitute drugs; Chapter 3 Achieving detoxification and abstinence; Chapter 4 Treatment of non-opiate misuse; Chapter 5 Community drug services; Chapter 6 Treatment of drug misuse in primary care; Chapter 7 Dual diagnosis drug misuse and psychiatric disorder; Chapter 8 Liaison work and special patient groups.; title: Appendix: Protocols for Quick Detoxification from HeroinGlossary; References; Index.