Treating Drug Abusers provides a clear, practical guide to current approaches in the treatment of drug-taking. Written by practitioners for practitioners, it takes a psychological perspective to the problem. The authors include detailed case studies of particular treatments, focusing on, among other things, relapse and its prevention, family therapy, and the transmission of the HIV virus.
Author(s): G Bennett
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1990
Language: English
Pages: 208
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Introduction......Page 8
Changing conceptions of the nature of drug abuse......Page 16
Motivating heroin users for change......Page 36
Family therapy and addiction......Page 55
Relapse prevention training......Page 75
Medical treatment for problem drug takers......Page 88
Managing benzodiazepine withdrawal......Page 98
Facing up to AIDS......Page 122
Drug treatment and prescribing practice: what can be learned from the past?......Page 144
The Community Drug Team: current practice......Page 162
The Community Drug Team: lessons from alcohol and handicap services......Page 178
Name index......Page 197
Subject index......Page 199
