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Heroin Addiction and The British System

Volume I Origins and Evolution

• Edited by Michael Gossop, John Strang

• Price: $160.00
• Binding: Hardback
• Pages: 236
• Published by: Routledge
• Publication Date: 23rd December 2004
• ISBN: 978-0-415-29814-8

About the Book

Presenting a comprehensive account of the development of policies and treatments, Heroin Addiction and the British System brings together the perspectives of policy makers, practitioners and social commentators. The book contributes to a proper understanding of how policy and practice has evolved so that lessons for future policy and practice may be identified.

Volume I focuses on the evolution of the drugs problem in the UK, examining the social and economic consequences from historical and contemporary perspectives. It is a unique source of reference for students, researchers, healthcare professionals and drug agencies both in the UK and overseas.

Table of Contents

1. Misreported and Misunderstood: the 'British System' of Drug Policy 2. The 'British System' and its History: Myth and Reality 3. The Early Years of Britain's Drug Situation in Practice - Up to the 1960s 4. The Drugs Problem of the 1960s: A New Type of Problem 5. Crawley New Town: Case Study of a Local Heroin Epidemic in the 1960s 6. Intravenous and Oral Street Use of Barbiturates: the 'Barb Epidemic' of the 1970s and Early 1980s 7. Heroin Epidemics and Social Exclusion in the UK:1980 - 2000 8. Flexible Hierarchies and Dynamic Disorder - the Trading and Distribution of Illicit Heroin in Britain and Europe, 1970-90 9. Drug Epidemics in Space and Time: Local Diversity, Sub-Cultures and Social Exclusion 10. The Arrival of HIV 11. The Great Mersey Experiment: the Birth of Harm Reduction 12. Heroin in New Forms in the UK: What Significance and What Relationship to Different Routes of Administration? 13. Use of Illegal Drugs in Northern Ireland: The Strange Case of a Surprisingly Small Problem 14. The Relationship Between the State and Local Practice in the Development of National Policy on Drugs Between 1920 and 1990 15. The Development of the Voluntary Sector: No Further Need for Pioneers? 16. AIDS and Drug Misuse in the UK: Achievements, Failings and New Harm Reduction Opportunities 17. Hepatitis C, the Sleeping Giant and the Sleeping 'British System'