Drug misuse reporting

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 ... 

Overtreit, J. (1986) Organisation of multidisciplinary community teams, Brunei Institute of Organisational Studies (BIOSS), Brunei University. Social Services Inspectorate (1985) Project on drug misuse , unpublished report. 

TABLE 4.2 Commonly Misused/Abused Drugs as Reported by the National Surveillance Agency Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN)... 

Source UK national report 1999, taken from Ramsay, M., and Partridge, S., Drug misuse... 

Drug misuse Toxic keratopathy due to abuse of a topical anesthetic has been described. Such patients often have psychiatric disorders and the authors of a new report postulated that adjunctive psychiatric treatment may help to break the chemical addiction... 

In many therapeutic situations the drug combinations are completely misused (12). Adding another drug to a combination does not reduce the need for sound clinical judgement in therapy. Although there are many disease situations in which the use of more than one antibacterial agent may be justified, generalizations about various combinations of bactericidal or bacteriostatic antibiotics or admixtures have not proven valid. Basically, antibiotic combinations should be avoided as a common practice unless they have shown a clear increase in effectiveness as reported in the literature. 

ACMD (2003) Hidden Harm Responding to the Needs of Children of Problem Drug Users The Report of an Inquiry by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. London Home Office. 

Harwin, J. and Forrester, D. (2002) Parental substance misuse and child welfare a study of social work with families in which parents misuse drugs or alcohol. London Interim Report for Nuffield Foundation. 

Because BZDs can cause excessive sedation and misuse, especially in drug-abusing HIV-infected patients, buspirone may be a useful alternative. Batki ( 496) reported on the use of this agent in 17 opiate abusers with AIDS or ARC who were also taking methadone. In the 14 patients who remained on the drug for at least 2 weeks, there was a reduction in several aberrant behaviors without any incidence of abuse. 

The Treatment and Rehabilitation Report of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs recommended adaption of a problem-orientated approach, but many clinicians feel that too little guidance has been given on how such an approach should be used in practice.11... 

Advisory Committee on Alcoholism, report (1978) 172, 173, 177 Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, report (1982) 137, 156,... 

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