Pates / McBride / Arnold Injecting Illicit Drugs

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-77712-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten, E-Book

Injecting drug use is of major concern to both Western anddeveloping nations, causing extensive associated harm at bothindividual and public health levels. This book provides readerswith authoritative and practical information on injecting drug useand the health consequences of this behaviour.
* * Includes topical issues such as needle fixation, transitions toand from injecting, and illicit drug use in prison settings.
* Documents the relationship between injecting practice andinfectious diseases, such as HIV and hepatitis C.
* Explores harm reduction approaches such as safer injecting andsupervised injecting rooms.
* Reflects international perspectives from expertcontributors.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pates, Richard

McBride, Andrew

Arnold, Karin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Foreword.
Contributors.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction (Andrew McBride, Richard Pates and KarinArnold).
1. History of Injecting (Richard Pates and Jan Wichter).
2. The Eye of the Needle: an Ethno-Epidemiological Analysis ofInjecting Drug Use (Jean-Paul Grund).
3. Pharmaceutical Aspects of Injecting (Jennifer Scott).
4. Needle Fixation (Richard Pates, Andrew McBride and KarinArnold).
5. Women and Injecting (Rosdana Oretti and Pim Gregory).
6. Injecting in Prisons (David Shewan, Heino Stover and KateDolan).
7. Hepatitis C associated with Injecting Durg Use (NickCrofts).
8. HIV and Injecting Drug Use (Robert Heimer).
9. Odde Commotions: Some Other Health Consequences of Injecting(Andrew McBride and Jan Wichter).
10. Transitions to and from Injecting (Matthew Southwell).
11. Safer Injecting: Individual Harm Reduction Advice (HelenWilliams and Mark Norman).
12. Overdose: Prevalence, Predictors and Prevention (TrudiPetersen and David Best).
13. Supervised Injecting Rooms (Robert Haemmig and Ingrid vanBeck).
14. Injecting Drugs- The User's Perspective (JimmyDorabjee).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Pates is Clinical Director of the CommunityAddiction Unit in Cardiff and is a Consultant ClinicalPsychologist. He has been working with drug users for the past 16years. He has research interests in injecting, especially needlefixation and the treatment of amphetamine users. He is also theEditor of Journal of Substance Abuse.
Dr Andrew McBride MB ChB MSc FRCPsych has been aConsultant Psychiatrist with the Specialist Community AddictionService in Oxford since 2002. After training in Manchester andsouth Wales, he established Mid Glamorgan Community Drug andAlcohol Team in 1988 and moved to the Community Addiction Unit inCardiff in 1996. His clinical interests include the implementationof structured interventions using team and interagency approaches.Publications have been eclectic, including studies of amphetamineprescribing, cannabis use and needle fixation, and reviews ofalcohol withdrawal treatment and khat use. He has recentlyco-edited an introductory textbook on substance misuse.
Karin Arnold is a researcher at the Cardiff CommunityAddiction Unit, and a psychology postgraduate at the University ofCardiff. She is currently working on a dexamphetamine treatmenttrial and has a continued interest in the study of needlefixation.