
Auteur M. ASHTON
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Documents disponibles écrits par cet auteur (22)

ENGLISH : Around "treatment" are the things services do to help patients get to treatment - or just to help, full stop. From the unglamoorous perphery, Manners matter places these centre stage.
ENGLISH : It can be galling when things don't go as planned, but those nasty surprises are also learning points. This first tale of the unexpected shows how trying to prevent drug use by improving social skills and encouraging participation in[...]
ENGLISH : Britain embraced needle exchange more warmly than some other countries but here too resource shortfalls and counterproductive restrictions have prevented services from achieving their full potential. We examine the evidence from the [...]
Six case studies show the complex balance of needle exchange services can be disrupted, leaving hepatitis C and HIV spreading rapidly. Common themes are resource strarvation, local hostility, counterproductive restrictions and a non-intervention[...]
ENGLISH : In this issue it's established that hepatitis C has already infected a substantial minority of British injectors and is spreading rapidly due to continued "sharing" - shorthand for the various practices which risk blood-to-blood cont[...]
ENGLISH : Needle exchange can help stem the hepatitis C epidemic - but it takes high volume, high activity, high support and lateral thinking. The final part of this series isolates the most promising practice ingredients and mixes (Editor' s [...]
J. STRANG ; M. GOSSOP ; M. ASHTON ; N. BARTON ; S. CLEMENT ; P. CONNELL ; M. FARREL ; E. FINCH ; P. FLEMING ; C. GERADA ; A. GLANZ ; L. GRUER ; F. KEANEY ; T. LEIGHTON ; J. MERRILL ; M. MITCHESON ; POLKINGHORNE J. ; D. RAISTRICK ; S. RUBEN ; J. SHERIDAN ; B. WELLS ; J. WILLIS ; J. WITTON ; D. ZADOR | 2005
LivreFRANÇAIS : Depuis un demi siècle le système britannique de gestion de l'addiction aux opiacés est connu pour sa souplesse et sa capacité d'adaptation aux changements du contexte environnant. C'est la raison pour laquelle il a suscité un intérêt[...]
ENGLISH : Motivational interviewing would seem the ideal way to defuse resentment, deflect the resistance, and improve the engagement of offenders ordered in to treatment. And it can be, if the counter-productive context and distrust of the cl[...]
ENGLISH : How directive the therapists is in the face of client resistance is emerging as one of the strongest and most consistent influences on the outcomes of therapy. There is no one right answer -it all depends on the client, in particular[...]
ENGLISH : Hepatitis C is spreading rapidly in many areas despite the existence of needle exchange services. An extended case study of the hepatitis C and HIV epidemics in Vancouver, which at the time hosted the largest-volume needle exchange i[...]![]()
'Harm reduction' is a term that is used to refer both to a set of general principles used to underpin policies concerning the way that societies respond to drug problems and, simultaneously, to some specific types of intervention, such as needle[...]
ENGLISH : Controversial, expensive, yet promising so much, interest is increasing in prescribing heroin to heroin addicts. It's the drug field's ultimate role reversal - from killer drug to lifesaving medication. Just five studies hold the ans[...]
The Midwestern Prevention Project is one of the two models for the English national evaluation of drug education. It combines school, parental, and community mobilisation elements. The project was trialed among first-year secondary school pupils[...]
FRANÇAIS : Créé en 1989, le programme d'échange de seringues de la rive Est de Vancouver est devenu le programme le plus important de l'Amérique du Nord, distribuant près de 2 000 000 d'aiguilles et de seringues par an. Mais en 1996, le taux tr[...]