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Heroin addiction and the British system
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Heroin addiction and the British system

Author: John Strang; Michael Gossop
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: John Strang; Michael Gossop
ISBN: 0415298148 9780415298148 0415298156 9780415298155 0415298164 9780415298162 0415298172 9780415298179 0415298180 9780415298186
OCLC Number: 54022605
Description: xii, 224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: v. 1. Misreported and misunderstood : the 'British system' of drug policy / John Strang and Michael Gossop. The 'British system' and its history : myth and reality / Virginia Berridge. The early years of Britain's drug situation in practice : up to the 1960s / Bing Spear. The drugs problem of the 1960s : a new type of problem / Thomas Bewley. Crawley New Town : case study of a local heroin epidemic in the 1960s / N.H. (Raj) Rathod. Intravenous and oral street use of barbiturates : the 'epidemic' of the 1970s and early 1980s / Angela Burr. Heroin epidemics and social exclusion in the UK, 1980-2000 / Howard Parker. Flexible hierarchies and dynamic disorder : the trading and distribution of illicit heroin in Britain and Europe / Roger Lewis. Drug epidemics in space and time : local diversity, subcultures, and social exclusion / Goeffrey Pearson and Mark Gilman. The arrival of HIV / J. Roy Robertson . The great Mersey experiment : the birth of harm reduction / Peter McDermott. Different types of heroin in the UK : what significance and what relationship to different routes of administration? / John Strang, Paul Griffiths and Michael Gossop. Use of illegal drugs in Northern Ireland : the strange case of a surprisingly small problem / Dianan patterson . The relationship between the state and local practice in the development of national policy on drugs between 1920 and 1990 / Gerry V. Stimson and Rachel Lart. The development of the voluntary sector : no further need for pioneers? / David Turner. AIDS and drug misuse in the UK : achievements, failings and new harm reduction opportunities / John Strang. Hepatitis C, the sleeping giant and the sleeping 'British system' / Tom Waller.
Responsibility: edited by John Strang and Michael Gossop.
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