Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword by Professor John Strang
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Introduction: community treatment in context
- Part I Treatments
- Part II Providing clinical services
- Epilogue Future directions
- Appendix 1 Protocols for quick detoxification from heroin
- Appendix 2 Opioid equivalent dosages
- Glossary
- References
- Index
Foreword by Professor John Strang
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword by Professor John Strang
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Introduction: community treatment in context
- Part I Treatments
- Part II Providing clinical services
- Epilogue Future directions
- Appendix 1 Protocols for quick detoxification from heroin
- Appendix 2 Opioid equivalent dosages
- Glossary
- References
- Index
Summary
Dr Seivewright has produced an excellent handbook on the community treatment of drug misuse. Essentially, his book is a workshop manual for the practitioner faced with any one of the many challenges which may confront the medical or nonmedical drug worker in the UK. Just as a car workshop manual can guide both the novice and the more experienced mechanic through tasks ranging from the change of a lightbulb through to a complete engine re-fit, so Dr Seivewright's book can guide the novice or experienced drug worker through tasks as varied as dose assessment to the organization of integrated service provision across primary and secondary care. Dr Seivewright is excellently well suited to prepare this book, bringing, on the one hand, the experience and wisdom of a battle-scarred clinician who has already worked for many years in charge of drug services in the UK and, on the other hand, the discipline and critical scrutiny of the academic in his search and analysis of the available international evidence for the treatments he describes.
More than Methadone. As the sub-title of the book indicates, the challenge and responsibility of better community treatment of drug misuse involves much more than methadone. Whilst parts of the book deal with ways of optimizing methadone treatment itself, other important sections deal with other aspects of a comprehensive holistic approach to care of the heterogeneous population who comprise the treatment population of today's drug services.
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- Community Treatment of Drug MisuseMore than Methadone, pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999