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Addiction and After

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Michael Gossop
Michael Gossop*
Affiliation:
Drug Dependence Clinical Research and Treatment Unit, The Bethlem Royal Hospital and The Maudsley Hospital, Monks Orchard Road, Beckenham, Kent. BR3 3BX
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Abstract

The development of the British response to ‘the drugs problem’ since the 1960s does not lend itself readily to any optimistic interpretation. The initial wave of enthusiasm for clinics during the latter years of the 1960s soon faded. The clinic system was deprived of sufficient support, and many staff became disillusioned and burnt out. Treatment and responses gradually changed, not as the result of any clearly thought-out policy, but as the result of a vague drift of views.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 152 , Issue 3 , March 1988 , pp. 307 - 309
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1988 

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