Treating Drinkers and Drug Users in the Community (eBook)

Tom Waller, MBBS, DObstRCOG, was a GP, lecturer and tutor in Central London 1973-88 and a GP in Suffolk from 1988-96. He developed an interest in substance use when he became first medical adviser to a short-stay hostel for drug users in crisis in 1978 and used this experience in his own general practice. He was a member of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs from 1983-88 and 1993-96. In 1996 he became Suffolk County Specialist for problem substance use. Daphne Rumball MB, ChB, DRCOG, FRCPsych is a consultant psychiatrist in Norfolk Mental Health Care NHS Trust, specialising in drugs and alcohol, and working with a multi-disciplinary team in a large urban and rural practice in Norwich. She is also an honorary academic adviser and tutor at the School of Medicine, University of East Anglia.

Theoretical Considerations:.

Treating Drinkers and Drug Users in the Community: An
Overview.

The Political Dimension: Different national
approaches.

Prevention and Treatment - not separate issues but part
of a continuum:.

Prevention and Treatment Services for Young People;Prevention
and Treatment Services for Adults.

Assessment: Assessment.

Treatment:.

The Therapeutic Framework;.

Understanding Behavioural and Cognitive-Behavioural Treatment
Approaches;.

Effective Counselling For Ongoing Client Contact;.

The Nature and Timing of Care Plan Interventions;.

Brief Interventions;.

Prescribing Interventions;.

Everyone Needs Help to Prevent Relapse;.

Reducing Environmental Harm and Increasing Social Strength;.

Reducing Psychological Harm and Increasing Psychological
Strength;.

Working With Families;.

Substance Use and Mental Health;.

Physical Health Issues;.

Women Parents and Children;.

Professionally Aided Self-help,.

Twelve Step Work and the Maintenance of Abstinence;.

Epilogue.

Appendix.

Further reading and references.

Glossary of abbreviations and acronyms.

Index

"The book is going to prove to be an extremely useful resource for
clinical staff." (Alcohol & Alcoholism, March
2009)

"Waller & Rumball's book has two outstanding features.
First, it achieves admirably its ambition of being a thoroughly
practical and eminently useful, modern guide to treatment and
preventive work with alcohol and drug users. Secondly, an accurate
empathy with the experiences of those suffering from alcohol and
drug problems and a sincere respect for them as unique individuals
is obvious on every page. For these reasons alone, the book is
highly recommended for specialists in the field and those
generalists who come into contact with alcohol and drug problems in
their work."

(Addiction, Vol 101: 1, January 2006)

"Only just seen this classic - how have I have missed it? This book
looks at a wide range of interventions that can be used to help
different people with different drug and alcohol problems at all
stages. A breath of fresh air and a 'must read' for all
practitioners and commissioners in the field."

-Professor David Clark, Drink and Drug News, July 2006

"The excellent book Treating Drinkers and Drug Users in the
Community by Daphne Rumball, an addiction specialist, and the
late Tom Waller...describes the treatment options for substance
misuse - focusing on psychosocial interventions, many of which can
be carried out in a community and indeed primary care setting. The
evidence in support of the treatments is well presented and the
book is superbly referenced, acting as a valuable resource for
further study. The book is well written and is accessible to
professionals and the general public. It goes without saying that
this book will provide an invaluable source of information.
moreover it is a scholarly text and extremely well written. I
strongly recomend this book and hope that in time it will become a
classic."

-Clare Gerada, Psychiatric Bulletin, 2006