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.

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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2004

ISBN

9781134428571

Edition

Topic

Medicine

Subtopic

Health Care Delivery

Front Cover
Heroin Addiction and the British System, Volume I Origins and Evolution
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
1 Misreported and misunderstood: the ‘British System’ of drug policy
2 The ‘British System’ and its history: myth and reality
3 The early years of Britain’s drug situation in practice: up to the 1960s
4 The drugs problem of the 1960s: a new type of problem
5 Crawley New Town: case study of a local heroin epidemic in the 1960s
6 Intravenous and oral street use of barbiturates: the ‘epidemic’ of the 1970s and early 1980s
7 Heroin epidemics and social exclusion in the UK, 1980–2000
8 Flexible hierarchies and dynamic disorder: the trading and distribution of illicit heroin in Britain and Europe
9 Drug epidemics in space and time: local diversity, subcultures and social exclusion
10 The arrival of HIV
11 The great Mersey experiment: the birth of harm reduction
12 Different types of heroin in the UK: what significance and what relationship to different routes of administration?
13 Use of illegal drugs in Northern Ireland: the strange case of a surprisingly small problem
14 The relationship between the state and local practice in the development of national policy on drugs between 1920 and 1990
15 The development of the voluntary sector: no further need for pioneers?
16 AIDS and drug misuse in the UK: achievements, failings and new harm reduction opportunities
17 Hepatitis C, the sleeping giant and the sleeping ‘British System’
Index