Product Description

This student text covers all aspects of working with drug and substance misusers, including the history and changes in policy on substance misuse and the differences between working with young and adult clients. Recent government initiatives and legislative changes are carefully outlined, while discussions on why people take drugs, the policy implications of harm reduction and abstinence approaches to substance use/misuse are related back to practice so that readers understand how to engage with the client group and the reasons for varying success across treatment approaches.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #61086 in Books
• Published on: 2009-09-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 146 pages

Review
Really enjoyed this book - very accessible and well organised including very current issues in this field. --Lecturer, Northumberland College

About the Author
Anthony Goodman has been a practitioner and an academic for over 30 years. His first post as a probation officer included responsibility for liaising with a hostel for unstable drug addicts. He developed a continuing interest in this client group and now runs a Masters applied criminology programme at Middlesex University and also teaches in social work.

Customer Reviews

This book is too good!
This book is awesome, it appears to cover every aspect of substance misuse and links practice to all contexts, circumstances, policy, values, discrimination, anti oppressive practice, diversity the list goes on. It has a really simple do's and dont's chapter and i felt after reading it that i had a good ground of understanding of the experiences of substance misusers and practice issues within this field of social work. I could have written a whole essay just using this book...in some respects this was a little problematic, it was SO absorbing, every piece of information it contained seemed to be equally important and so it was very difficult to refine and prioritise what to use and what not, in the end i read and took notes on virtually the whole thing... it was worth it though!

Gret book
Great book, was a quick transaction, and recieved in time for my assignments! yay! loll :D