NCJ Number
182389
Editor(s)
Cameron Stark,
Brian A. Kidd,
Roger A. D. Sykes
Date Published
1999
Length
258 pages
Annotation
This overview of illegal drug use in the United Kingdom provides a comprehensive review of information and available interventions to inform local drug policies.
Abstract
In keeping with policy documents in both Scotland and England, the volume covers the breadth of possible interventions, rather than health care alone. Separate chapters review educational, policing, and counseling approaches and discuss work with special groups such as rural drug users, sex workers, and club goers. The volume also examines European drug policies on supply and demand reduction, school interventions, residential rehabilitation services, working with women who use drugs, and the treatment of drug users in prison. The editors consider issues in assessing the nature and extent of local drug use and note policies in the United Kingdom on drug use require a multi-faceted approach that involves many different agencies and groups. References, tables, and figures