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Community treatment of drug misuse : more than methadone / Nicholas Seivewright.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in social and community psychiatryPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 243 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0511009798
  • 9780511009792
  • 0511038992
  • 9780511038990
  • 0511149182
  • 9780511149184
  • 051111673X
  • 9780511116735
  • 9780521590914
  • 0521590914
  • 9780521665629
  • 0521665620
  • 0511302940
  • 9780511302947
  • 1280157992
  • 9781280157998
  • 9786610157990
  • 6610157995
  • 0511054238
  • 9780511054235
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Community treatment of drug misuse.DDC classification:
  • 616.86/06 21
LOC classification:
  • RC566 .S36 2000eb
NLM classification:
  • WM 270
Online resources:
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Introduction: community treatment in context -- pt. I Treatments -- 1. Methadone maintenance: a medical treatment for social reasons? -- 2. More than methadone? The case for other substitute drugs -- 3. Achieving detoxification and abstinence -- 4. Treatment of nonopiate misuse -- pt. II Providing clinical services -- 5. Community drug services -- 6. Treatment of drug misuse in primary care -- 7. Balancing security and accessibility -- 8. Dual diagnosis -- drug misuse and psychiatric disorder -- Epilogue: Future directions -- App. 1 Protocols for quick detoxification from heroin -- App. 2 Opioid equivalent dosages.
Summary: "Does the widespread use of methadone achieve the right balance between treatment of the individual and management of a public health problem?" "This book draws on the author's direct clinical experience and makes use of findings from Europe, North America and Australia to provide a comprehensive and detailed guide to service provision and treatment for drug misuse, including methadone and alternative opiate substitutes, detoxification methods, naftrexone and relapse prevention, and possible approaches with nonopiate users."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-240) and index.

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"Does the widespread use of methadone achieve the right balance between treatment of the individual and management of a public health problem?" "This book draws on the author's direct clinical experience and makes use of findings from Europe, North America and Australia to provide a comprehensive and detailed guide to service provision and treatment for drug misuse, including methadone and alternative opiate substitutes, detoxification methods, naftrexone and relapse prevention, and possible approaches with nonopiate users."--Jacket.

Machine generated contents note: Introduction: community treatment in context -- pt. I Treatments -- 1. Methadone maintenance: a medical treatment for social reasons? -- 2. More than methadone? The case for other substitute drugs -- 3. Achieving detoxification and abstinence -- 4. Treatment of nonopiate misuse -- pt. II Providing clinical services -- 5. Community drug services -- 6. Treatment of drug misuse in primary care -- 7. Balancing security and accessibility -- 8. Dual diagnosis -- drug misuse and psychiatric disorder -- Epilogue: Future directions -- App. 1 Protocols for quick detoxification from heroin -- App. 2 Opioid equivalent dosages.

English.

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