1. A GP's role: past, present and future / Tom Waller -- 2. Assessment of the drug user / Chris Ford and Brian Whitehead -- 3. General health care of drug users / Katie Kemp -- 4. Counselling drug users / Brian Whitehead -- 5. Opiate misuse / Edwin Martin -- 6. Methadone prescribing / Judy Bury -- 7. Cocaine, amphetamines and designer drugs / Philip Fleming -- 8. Use and abuse of benzodiazepines by polydrug users / Chris Ford -- 9. Safer injection, safer use, safer sex: a harm-minimization approach / Clare Gerada, James Tighe and Clive Barrett -- 10. Caring for the pregnant drug user / Chris Ford and Mary Hepburn -- 11. Young people and drugs / Julian Cohen -- 12. Practical aspects of managing drug users / Judy Bury -- 13. Working with other agencies / Berry Beaumont and Stefan Janikiewicz -- 14. Drugs and the law / Greg Poulter
Notes
Foreword by Wiliam Clee
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [167]-180) and index