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AIDS and drug misuse : the challenge for policy and practice in the 1990s / edited by John Strang and Gerry V. Stimson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1990.Description: xii, 276 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0415030994
  • 0415053285 (pbk.)
  • 9780415053280:
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 614.5993
Partial contents:
The impacts of HIV : forcing the process of change / John Strang and Gerry V. Stimson -- AIDS, drug misuse and the global crisis / Manuel Carballo and Giovanni Rezza -- HIV : the virus and laboratory tests / Jonathan Weber -- Clinical features of HIV infection and AIDS in drug takers / Ray Brettle, Michael Farrell and John Strang -- Neuropsychiatric complications of HIV infection / Massimo Riccio and David Hawkins -- Drug-using trends and HIV risk behaviour / Robert Power -- Control of HIV infection in injecting drug users in San Francisco / Andrew R. Moss -- The epidemic of HIV infection among injecting drug users in New York City : the first decade and possible future directions / Don C. Des Jarlais and Samuel R. Friedman.
The Edinburgh epidemic : a case study / Roy Robertson -- The Italian epidemic : a case study / Enrico Tempesta and Massimo Di Giannantonio -- Revising policy and practice : new ideas about the drugs problem / Gerry V. Stimson -- Aids and injecting drug use in Australia : a case study in policy development and implementation / Alex Wodak -- The roles of prescribing / John Strang -- The role of harm-reduction programmes in curbing the spread of HIV by drug injectors / Ernst Buning -- Communications, education, drugs and HIV / Nicholas Dorn and Nigel South -- Reaching out to injecting drug users / Samuel R. Friedman ... [et al.] -- Local community services / Karen Gowler and Geof Rayner -- HIV infection and AIDS in the prison environment : a test case for the respect of human rights / Timothy Harding.
Intermediate goals and the process of change / John Strang -- Distributing sterile needles and syringes to people who inject drugs : the syringe-exchange experiment / Gerry V. Stimson ... [et al.] -- Counselling the drug taker about HIV infection and AIDS / John Green -- Models of self-help for drug users with HIV/AIDS / Bill Nelles -- HIV positivity and health in the therapeutic community / Lesley Cooke, Annette Barratt and David Tomlinson -- Primary care : the challenge of HIV infection to the care of the drug taker / Richard Elion.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The impacts of HIV : forcing the process of change / John Strang and Gerry V. Stimson -- AIDS, drug misuse and the global crisis / Manuel Carballo and Giovanni Rezza -- HIV : the virus and laboratory tests / Jonathan Weber -- Clinical features of HIV infection and AIDS in drug takers / Ray Brettle, Michael Farrell and John Strang -- Neuropsychiatric complications of HIV infection / Massimo Riccio and David Hawkins -- Drug-using trends and HIV risk behaviour / Robert Power -- Control of HIV infection in injecting drug users in San Francisco / Andrew R. Moss -- The epidemic of HIV infection among injecting drug users in New York City : the first decade and possible future directions / Don C. Des Jarlais and Samuel R. Friedman.

The Edinburgh epidemic : a case study / Roy Robertson -- The Italian epidemic : a case study / Enrico Tempesta and Massimo Di Giannantonio -- Revising policy and practice : new ideas about the drugs problem / Gerry V. Stimson -- Aids and injecting drug use in Australia : a case study in policy development and implementation / Alex Wodak -- The roles of prescribing / John Strang -- The role of harm-reduction programmes in curbing the spread of HIV by drug injectors / Ernst Buning -- Communications, education, drugs and HIV / Nicholas Dorn and Nigel South -- Reaching out to injecting drug users / Samuel R. Friedman ... [et al.] -- Local community services / Karen Gowler and Geof Rayner -- HIV infection and AIDS in the prison environment : a test case for the respect of human rights / Timothy Harding.

Intermediate goals and the process of change / John Strang -- Distributing sterile needles and syringes to people who inject drugs : the syringe-exchange experiment / Gerry V. Stimson ... [et al.] -- Counselling the drug taker about HIV infection and AIDS / John Green -- Models of self-help for drug users with HIV/AIDS / Bill Nelles -- HIV positivity and health in the therapeutic community / Lesley Cooke, Annette Barratt and David Tomlinson -- Primary care : the challenge of HIV infection to the care of the drug taker / Richard Elion.

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