Drugs misuse

Contained use of genetically modified organisms Drug misuse at work - A guide for employers Dangerous substances on site notification and warning signs Solvents and you... 

Schweizer E, Patterson W, Rickels K, et al Double-blind, placebo-controlled study of a once-a-day, sustained-release preparation of alprazolam for the treatment of panic disorder. Am J Psychiatry 150 1210-1215, 1993 Seivewright N Benzodiazepine misuse by illicit drug misusers. Addiction 96 333—334, 2001... 

Table 8.1. Users presenting to drug misuse services for the first time in the UK.

The classic symptoms of depression are listed in Table 12.1, which is based on DSM-IV criteria. For a diagnosis of major depressive disorder, most of these symptoms must be present, including the first two (APA, 2000). These symptoms should be of sufficient intensity and chronic duration (at least 2 weeks) to cause clinically significant distress and impairment in social or economic functioning. However, they should not be a result of another psychiatric or somatic illness, nor of drug misuse or bereavement. For a diagnosis of mania, the symptoms are a mirror image of those for depression (Table... 

Relapse This occurs when an individual returns to misusing a drug following a period of abstinence. Relapse prevention, or breaking this cycle of on-off drug misuse, is one the most problematic stages in rehabilitation. 

Frischer M, Hickman H, Kraus L, Mariani F and Wiessing L (2001). A comparison of different methods for estimating the prevalence of problematic drug misuse in Great Britain. 

Ramsay M, Baker P, Goulden C, Sharp C and Sondhi A (2001). Drug Misuse Declared in 2000 Results from the British Crime Survey (Home Office Research Study No. 224). HMSO, London. 

Stinchfield, R., Winters, K. C. (1997). Measuring change in adolescent drug misuse with the Personal Experiences Inventory (PEI). Substance Use and Misuse, 32, 63-76. 

Drug misuse can be very frightening for children to witness. Children and young people reported being alarmed at seeing how drug withdrawal affected their parents ... 

Top five drug misuse deaths, 2003 Opiates, including heroin... 

This introductory chapter takes one step back from the treatment situation, to examine the social background against which drug misuse is often set, some of the aetiological factors, and the place which clinical treatment occupies in the wider scheme of things. It is by way of a fairly subjective and partly historical overview, before the treatment approaches are examined in greater detail, in various international contexts. In our own services we use inpatient or residential options only very rarely, and so they are summarized at the end of the chapter, with some additional consideration where relevant in later chapters. 

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