Counselling should be provided about other potential risk behaviours and interventions,
notably safe sex, medication compliance, and abstinence or harm reduction. Targeted …

cocaine guidance Page 1 Royal College of General Practitioners Guidance for working with
cocaine and crack users in primary care RCGP Drug & Alcohol Misuse Training Programme …

Sur and Loh are to be commended for their article on the management of a man disclosing
crack cocaine use at a rural clinic. 1 However, they do not elaborate on the rural context or …

It looked like the first drop of rain in the desert of drugs policy. Last week Antonio Maria
Costa, executive director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, said what millions of liberal …

Background: Cocaine/crack-cocaine use is associated with a number of negative outcomes
in people with mental health problems. Aims: To explore the extent of use in individuals with …

Crack/cocaine use is an increasing problem in the UK. This study is the first to ascertain the
magnitude of the crack/cocaine problem in a rural county of the UK and to determine users' …

Background Cocaine, particularly in its base form ('crack'), has become one of the drugs of
most concern in the Netherlands, being associated with a wide range of medical, psychiatric …

Abstract During the period June 1971–December 1976 a total of 592 consecutive
admissions to a Drug Addiction Clinic were asked which drugs they had been taking since …

Three methods were used to identify the treatments given to cocaine misusers in England,
and to make a preliminary assessment of effectiveness. First, a postal survey of all known …

197 SUCHT| 51 (4)| 196–198| 2005 threshold, free-access and non-stigmatizing counseling
services for users with acute problems. At the same time, the situation is also very disturbing …