AIDS And Drug Misuse: The Challenge for Policy and Practice in the 1990s

by John Strang, Gerry V. Stimson (Editor)

HIV and AIDS have brought an unprecedented crisis to all those engaged in the provision of health and social services. Conventional wisdom and old methods have had to be discarded; new problems have called for new information and new skills. This text provides a major evaluation of the challenge of AIDS. An array of contributors, all of whom have international reputations in their field, present a synthesis of the wide variety of issues in this complex debate. The book charts the development of the epidemic, and looks in detail at the different strategies being implemented around the world to try and contain it. It also assesses the implications for future prevention of the spread of HIV among drug injectors.

288 pages, Hardcover

First published September 25, 1990

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Mental Health
Specialist in Addition

Professor Sir John Strang - MBBS, FRCPsych, FRCP, MD, F.Med.Sci. - is a leading clinical academic who has conducted extensive addiction research studies and has worked with governments to improve responses to problems of addiction and related complications.

He has worked in the addictions field as a clinician and researcher for 40 years and has had an active interest in working with policy formation. He has lead the addiction group at the Institute since 1995.

He is one of only a small number of senior addictions researchers outside North America identified by ISI (the Institute for Scientific Analysis) since 2000 as a “Highly Cited Author” with a rate of citation in the “top one half of one percent of all publishing researchers in the last two decades”.

He has published extensively in the addictions field, with more than 500 publications.