Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Drugs, addiction and behaviour
- 2 Drug dependence in the UK – and elsewhere
- 3 Drugs of abuse and dependence
- 4 Alcohol
- 5 Assessment
- 6 General measures of intervention
- 7 Specific methods of treatment
- 8 Complications of drug abuse and their treatment
- 9 Special problems
- 10 Follow-up and treatment outcome
- 11 Prevention of drug abuse
- 12 The law and drug control policies
- Appendices
- 1 Illicit manufacture of controlled substances
- 2 Substance Abuse Database
- 3 The European Substance Use Database
- 4 Substance Abuse Assessment Questionnaire
- 5 Np-SAD
- 6 Narcotics Anonymous
- 7 Opiate withdrawal
- 8 Opiate Withdrawal Scoring Sheet
- 9 Attendance Record
- References and further reading
- Index
2 - Substance Abuse Database
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Drugs, addiction and behaviour
- 2 Drug dependence in the UK – and elsewhere
- 3 Drugs of abuse and dependence
- 4 Alcohol
- 5 Assessment
- 6 General measures of intervention
- 7 Specific methods of treatment
- 8 Complications of drug abuse and their treatment
- 9 Special problems
- 10 Follow-up and treatment outcome
- 11 Prevention of drug abuse
- 12 The law and drug control policies
- Appendices
- 1 Illicit manufacture of controlled substances
- 2 Substance Abuse Database
- 3 The European Substance Use Database
- 4 Substance Abuse Assessment Questionnaire
- 5 Np-SAD
- 6 Narcotics Anonymous
- 7 Opiate withdrawal
- 8 Opiate Withdrawal Scoring Sheet
- 9 Attendance Record
- References and further reading
- Index
Summary
Guidelines on completion of the form
The S.A.M. Collaborative Project
The aim of the project is to give service providers who participate, good quality information on the utilization of services by clients, paying particular attention to the effectiveness of treatment interventions, by measuring outcomes in terms of the clients' quality of life. Resulting data will also be of great benefit to purchasers and commissioners of substance misuse services.
As well as providing quality data at a local level, the data can be forwarded and included in the Department of Health regional and national statistics.
The project is supervised by the Addiction Resource Agency for commissioners at the Centre for Addiction Studies, St George's Hospital Medical School.
WHO the form is about
Any client with whom you have contact who has a recent substance problem of any kind. A broad view of substance use is adopted, including all psychoactive drugs with the exclusion only of tobacco. Prescribed drugs (such as benzodiazepines) should be included as well as over-thecounter preparations (such as codeine linctus). Alcohol use should also be recorded in the appropriate slot provided in the Substance Profile table.
WHEN to complete the form
Please complete a form when the client first presents to your agency, and whenever a new episode of substance use starts. A new episode starts when a person with substance-related problems either goes to a particular agency for the first time, or returns to a particular agency after an interval of 6 months or more.
WHO completes the form
This form is intended for completion by a staff member who has interviewed a client. It is not intended as a self-completion form for drug users.
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- Drugs and Addictive BehaviourA Guide to Treatment, pp. 405 - 410Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002