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A pdfContents 5
A1 pdfBasic Principles 6
A2 pdfIdentification of Substance Misuse 9
A3 pdfBrief Interventions 11
A4 pdfReferral to Specialist Services 13
B pdfContents 15
B1 pdfInitial Appraisal 16
B2 pdfBasic Counselling Interventions 17
C pdfContents 19
C1 pdfPrinciples of Joint Working in Shared-Care 20
C2 pdfPharmacological Approaches -Basic Principles 21
C3 pdfThe Medical Management of Intoxication 22
C4 pdfThe Management of Withdrawal Syndromes 25
C5 pdfCommunity Prescribing for Opiate Dependency 34
C6 pdfMedication to Prevent Relapse 41
C7 pdfPrescribing Sedative-Hypnotics 45
C8 pdfViral Hepatitis and HIV 46
C9 pdfViral Hepatitis and HIV 'Dual Diagnosis' 1 50
D pdfContents 51
D1 pdfThe Management of 'Dual Diagnosis' 2 52
D2 pdfIn-Patient Detoxification Methods 56
E pdfContents 57
E1 pdfFull Needs Assessment 58
E2 pdfRisk Assessment 62
E3 pdfCare-planning & Care-coordination 63
E4 pdfSocial Interventions 65
E5 pdfPsychosocial Interventions 67
    Common Tasks for Psychosocial Interventions 67
    Specific Interventions 68
    Setting: Residential & Community Psychosocial Services 67
    Therapists & Counsellors 67
E6 pdfAlternative Therapies 67
E7 pdfSpecialist Pharmacological & Biochemical Interventions
    Dispensing Services 81
    The Opiate Addiction Test 81
    Tolerance Testing 82
    Specialist In-Patient Detoxification 85
    Specialist Opiate Detoxification Techniques 86
    Specialist Community Prescribing Interventions 89
    Biochemical Techniques for Monitoring of Substance Misuse 91
E8 pdfPregnancy 96
E9 pdfPolydrug misuse 101
E10 pdfChaotic Behaviour & Poor Concordance 104
E11 pdfThe Management of Stimulant, Solvent and Steroid Misuse 108
R1 pdfReferences 110
X Contents 113
X1 Service Standards 114
X2 The Stages of Change Model 116
X3 Intoxication and Withdrawal Syndromes 117
X4 Physical complications of injecting drug misuse 119
X5 Interpretation of laboratory urine drugs of misuse screening tests 121
X6 Interpretation of screening tests for hepatitis B,hepatitis C and HIV 122
X7 Dosage equivalents of various controlled medications 123
X8 Illicit drug/prescribed drug interactions 124
X9 Products and foodstuffs to avoid when using Antabuse 129
X10 Detoxification protocols and withdrawal scales 130
X11 Example protocol for the administration of the 'Narcan Challenge' 152
X12 Contact details for AA and other '12-step' meetings; the 'Twelve Traditions' 155

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