Video: John Strang on his work in Manchester, the new drug use of '70's and the arrival of HIV

Footnotes

1) Website: South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

www.slam.nhs.uk

2) Book: Drugs and British Society Responses to a Social Problem in the 1980s [ed Susanne MacGregor]

See Chapter 12 'A Model Service'
Susanne MacGregor (ed.), Drugs and British Society: Responses to a Social Problem in the 1980s
Routledge 1989

3) Book: The international handbook of addiction behaviour [Ed IlanaGlass1991 Routledge]

Web book

4) Paper: Abstinence or Abundance - What goal [John Strang 1984 BMJ]

Abstract
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed) 1984;289:604 (8 September), doi:10.1136/bmj.289.6445.604

5) Paper: Do general practitioners and general psychiatrists want to look after drug misusers? Evaluation of a non-specialist treatment policy.

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Br J Gen Pract. 1993
D Tantam, M Donmall, A Webster, and J Strang

6) Book: Heroin Addiction and the British System Vol 2: Treatment and Policy Responses [Ed J Strang M Gossop 2005 Routledge]

Chapter 8
The rise and fall of the Community Drug Team
Sue Clement John Strang

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John Strang on his work in Manchester, the new drug use of '70's and the arrival of HIV