The Essential Guide to Drugs and Alcohol

The Essential Guide to Drugs and Alcohol

Author:	Harry Shapiro
Format:	Paperback
ISBN:	1904319483

Price: £14.95

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14th edition of DrugScope’s Essential Guide to Drugs and Alcohol.

Providing vital information to all those with a professional interest in the field, this book is essential reading for everyone from drug and alcohol workers to healthcare professionals, social workers and people working in criminal justice, as well as students on a wide range of courses. With an A-Z of illicit substances, a jargon buster of key sector terms, and accessible tables on seizure stats and prevalence, the guide pulls together useful information in an easily digestible way.

As the UK’s leading drug information and policy charity and national membership organisation for the drug sector, DrugScope has the experience and expertise to explain the intricacies of a drug scene that is moving faster than ever. In the short time since the last edition, cannabis has been reclassified, a new government drug strategy has been implemented with another set to follow by the end of the year, while the UK market has been rocked by the sudden emergence of ‘meow meow’. Make sure you keep up with the latest developments and order your licence now.

Features of The Essential Guide to Drugs and Alcohol include:

a comprehensive A-Z of illicit substances, including newer ‘legal highs’ such as mephedrone and other cathinones, detailing the essential facts such as legal status, prevalence, and long- and short-term effects;
an overview of different types of drug and alcohol treatment and the need-to-know organisations that work in the field;
from your CDTs to your ADPs, a jargon buster of key terms and acronyms used throughout the drug sector;
an overview of UK drug laws, including major pieces of legislation such as the Misuse of Drugs Act and Medicines Act;
useful tables and stats on drug prevalence, purity, drug-related deaths and drug seizures;
a history of government drug policy and drug and alcohol treatment in the UK, right up the emergence of so called ‘legal highs’.

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