The Politics of Addiction: Medical Conflict and Drug Dependence in England Since the 1960s

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Springer, Aug 20, 2012 - Science - 260 pages
The Politics of Addiction examines power and policy-making in the context of a bitter conflict between private and publicly employed doctors treating addiction. Regulation was used by both the profession and the state to shape the treatment of addiction and who could provide it, with the media feeding into the process.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
A Background Sketch
6
The Treatment and Rehabilitation Report
26
3 Defining Good Clinical Practice
44
The General Medical Council and Dr Ann Dally
65
The Home Office Drugs Inspectorate
89
Three Professional Groups
117
7 Guidelines and the Licensing Question
147
Conclusion
167
Interviewed Doctors Professional Roles
181
Notes
183
Bibliography
223
Index
244
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SARAH MARS is the Qualitative Project Director, Heroin Price and Purity Outcomes Study, at the University of San Francisco, California. She read history at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK, and received a PhD from the University of London. Since contributing to various drug policy reports, she has worked on the history of drugs, alcohol and tobacco at the University of California, San Francisco and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

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