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

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Professor John Strang
Professor John Strang
Location: London
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VIDEO NUMBER:
287
CATEGORY:
History And Historical Events
DATE ADDED:
30-03-2010
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John talks about the emergent drug use at that time and the move towards direct provision by drug services at a local community level. John talks about the fist ever Community Drug Teams.
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Footnotes
1) 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


2) Book: The international handbook of addiction behaviour [Ed IlanaGlass1991 Routledge]
Web book 
3) 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
4) 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
5) 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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