Handbook for medical practitioners and other health care workers on alcohol and other drug problems

CONTENTS

1. Acknowledgements
   
2. What is the size of the problem?
   
3. Concepts and definitions
   
4. Alcohol
   
5. Brief intervention for medical practitioners and health care workers
   
6. Tobacco
   
7. Heroin
   
8. Cannabis
   
9. Cocaine
   
10. Volatile substances
    
11. Amphetamines
    
12. Ecstasy
    
13. Drugs in pregnancy
    
14. Intoxication and overdoses
    
15. Detoxification and management of withdrawal
    
16. A multicultural approach to drug and alcohol-related issues and problems
    
17. The health professional or health care worker as a patient
    
18. Important issues
    
19. Community support services
    Bibliography and recommended reading
    

appendixes

1. Deaths caused by drug use, drug involved, cause of death, age, 1990
2. Principal drug problems by client status
3. Lifetime experience with drugs – persons aged 14-19 years, australia 1988 and 1991
4. Proportion of population who have used illicit drugs in the past year, type of drug, age, sex, 1991
5. Proportion of the population who have ever tried various drugs, drug type, 1985, 1988 and 1991
6. Summary of major characteristics of cannabis, methadone and heroin
7. APSAD: australian professional society on alcohol and other drugs