All the information you need to understand and help someone with substance misuse problems.
Written by a drug worker after 25 years of helping people change, and knowing when they just wont.
Useful and direct information from drug users, with case studies and different ideas to help someone change.
For professionals, parents and anyone who needs to know.
Detail of specific drugs that will mean you can talk to someone about the drugs, and methods of helping them change
Introduction
The meaning of life
Ten rules for understanding drug use
YOUNG PEOPLE
Young people general
Risks to young people specifically
Teenagers in particular
What to do with the ambivalent teenager who just won’t talk
The internet and social media
Child Sexual Exploitation
Self-harm and teenagers
General advice for parents of a teenager
Ten rules for understanding a teenager
Young people and heroin, including ‘Scott’s story’
The drug dealer’s perspective
THE DRUGS
Talking about drugs
Cannabis
-skunk/weed
-hash
-oil
-spliffs
Myths of cannabis
-Seth’ story
-Steve’s story
Cannabis controls around the world
Alcohol
-How to cut down or stop
-How we work out units per drink
-Common medications related to alcohol management
Mephadrone/Mcat
-Sam’s story
Research chemicals/”Legal Highs”
Amphetamine
Heroin
-Medications associated with heroin
Methadone
-Titration
Subutex
-Signs of an alcohol or opiate overdose?
Cocaine
Crack Cocaine
-Shaun’s story
Ketamine
Gas. glue and aerosols
Poppers
Ecstasy
-Exercise to do with young people
L.S.D.
Magic Mushrooms
Sleeping tablets and Benzodiazepines
-Simon’s story
Anti-depressants
Anti-psychotics
Steroids
HOW TO PREDICT DRUG PROBLEMS (the Really Useful quick guide)
SOME USEFUL THEORIES TO HELP SOMEONE
-Mind the gap
-The kicking-the-cat guide to self esteem
-The ABC model
-Relapse Prevention
-The six-week plan
-Sleep hygiene
-Harm Reduction and Needle Exchange
-Personal Construct Therapy
-N.L.P
-Mindfulness
-Creative Visualisation
-The Empty Chair
-Reverse Role Play
-Buddhism
-Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
-Family Communications Therapy
-Transactional Analysis
-The Id. the Ego and Super Ego
-Addictive Personality, the Addictive Gene and Addiction as a Disease
-Got in with the Wrong Crowd
-Narcotics and Alcoholics Anonymous – The 12 Steps
- Auricular Acupuncture
UNDERSTANDING USE AND RISKS
What is addiction and dependency?
Physical addiction- what happening in the brain and the body
Psychological addiction - what’s happening in the mind
More ways to talk to someone about drug use
What to do if your partner uses and won’t stop
How to change and why people don’t
Why do people get into problems with drugs, and why some don’t?
A way to start to understand mental health
FOR PARENTS AND THOSE CONCERNED WITH YOUNG PEOPLE
The dependent drug-using young people
The recreational or experimental drug-using young person
Divorce and separation in families
A parent’s own drug use
Parenting styles
Have you got a problem in your family?
How to manage differences in two parents’ attitudes
Advice for Step Parents
GETTING THE BEST FROM YOUR DRUG SERVICE
Drugs laws and drug services
Should drugs be legalised?
What do the Classes of drugs actually mean?
Family Drug and Alcohol Courts (FDACs)
Getting the best from a drug worker
Commissioning of a drug service
Drug Service confidentiality
NHS v voluntary sector?
Methods of drug testing; urine, saliva, hair
Should a drug worker be an ex-user?
MORE FOR PROFESSIONALS
Assessment models/information gathering
Motivational theories related to professional interventions
The cycle of change and motivational work
Assessment tools
Protecting children
-Obvious and less obvious risks to children
A - Z of drugs that can be misused
Common Assessment Framework applied to drug using parents
Written by a drug worker after 25 years of helping people change, and knowing when they just wont.
Useful and direct information from drug users, with case studies and different ideas to help someone change.
For professionals, parents and anyone who needs to know.
Detail of specific drugs that will mean you can talk to someone about the drugs, and methods of helping them change
Introduction
The meaning of life
Ten rules for understanding drug use
YOUNG PEOPLE
Young people general
Risks to young people specifically
Teenagers in particular
What to do with the ambivalent teenager who just won’t talk
The internet and social media
Child Sexual Exploitation
Self-harm and teenagers
General advice for parents of a teenager
Ten rules for understanding a teenager
Young people and heroin, including ‘Scott’s story’
The drug dealer’s perspective
THE DRUGS
Talking about drugs
Cannabis
-skunk/weed
-hash
-oil
-spliffs
Myths of cannabis
-Seth’ story
-Steve’s story
Cannabis controls around the world
Alcohol
-How to cut down or stop
-How we work out units per drink
-Common medications related to alcohol management
Mephadrone/Mcat
-Sam’s story
Research chemicals/”Legal Highs”
Amphetamine
Heroin
-Medications associated with heroin
Methadone
-Titration
Subutex
-Signs of an alcohol or opiate overdose?
Cocaine
Crack Cocaine
-Shaun’s story
Ketamine
Gas. glue and aerosols
Poppers
Ecstasy
-Exercise to do with young people
L.S.D.
Magic Mushrooms
Sleeping tablets and Benzodiazepines
-Simon’s story
Anti-depressants
Anti-psychotics
Steroids
HOW TO PREDICT DRUG PROBLEMS (the Really Useful quick guide)
SOME USEFUL THEORIES TO HELP SOMEONE
-Mind the gap
-The kicking-the-cat guide to self esteem
-The ABC model
-Relapse Prevention
-The six-week plan
-Sleep hygiene
-Harm Reduction and Needle Exchange
-Personal Construct Therapy
-N.L.P
-Mindfulness
-Creative Visualisation
-The Empty Chair
-Reverse Role Play
-Buddhism
-Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
-Family Communications Therapy
-Transactional Analysis
-The Id. the Ego and Super Ego
-Addictive Personality, the Addictive Gene and Addiction as a Disease
-Got in with the Wrong Crowd
-Narcotics and Alcoholics Anonymous – The 12 Steps
- Auricular Acupuncture
UNDERSTANDING USE AND RISKS
What is addiction and dependency?
Physical addiction- what happening in the brain and the body
Psychological addiction - what’s happening in the mind
More ways to talk to someone about drug use
What to do if your partner uses and won’t stop
How to change and why people don’t
Why do people get into problems with drugs, and why some don’t?
A way to start to understand mental health
FOR PARENTS AND THOSE CONCERNED WITH YOUNG PEOPLE
The dependent drug-using young people
The recreational or experimental drug-using young person
Divorce and separation in families
A parent’s own drug use
Parenting styles
Have you got a problem in your family?
How to manage differences in two parents’ attitudes
Advice for Step Parents
GETTING THE BEST FROM YOUR DRUG SERVICE
Drugs laws and drug services
Should drugs be legalised?
What do the Classes of drugs actually mean?
Family Drug and Alcohol Courts (FDACs)
Getting the best from a drug worker
Commissioning of a drug service
Drug Service confidentiality
NHS v voluntary sector?
Methods of drug testing; urine, saliva, hair
Should a drug worker be an ex-user?
MORE FOR PROFESSIONALS
Assessment models/information gathering
Motivational theories related to professional interventions
The cycle of change and motivational work
Assessment tools
Protecting children
-Obvious and less obvious risks to children
A - Z of drugs that can be misused
Common Assessment Framework applied to drug using parents
