Dispelling the Myths About Addiction: Strategies to Increase Understanding and Strengthen Research; Care of Drug Users in General Practice: a Harm Minimisation Approach (original) (raw)

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  2. Dispelling the Myths About Addiction: Strategies to Increase Understanding and Strengthen Research; Care of Drug Users in General Practice: a Harm Minimisation Approach

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  1. Roy Robertson., medical practitioner
  2. Edinburgh Drug Addiction Study, Edinburgh

Dispelling the Myths About Addiction: Strategies to Increase Understanding and Strengthen Research

Institute of Medicine

National Academy Press, £32.95, pp 218

ISBN 0 309 06401 5

Care of Drug Users in General Practice: a Harm Minimisation Approach

Ed Berry Beaumont Radcliffe Medical Press, £16.50, pp 187 ISBN 1 85775 236 8

The increasing clinical and academic interest in drug dependency has given rise to a rapidly expanding literature. Topics range from the severely pragmatic clinical approach to the scrutiny of addictive processes at a cellular level. The narrowly clinical perspective of drug problems, with its correspondingly limited range of clinical options, has yielded to a new consensus about the need for treatment and a recognition that drug dependency is a disease, requiring treatments that are based on evidence.

The major themes of Dispelling the Myths about Addiction are that …

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