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2354275

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1990-7-24
pubmed:abstractText
Some difficulties in the management of addiction in a Drug Dependence Unit are discussed. Staff time with clients on prescribed methadone is dominated by enquiries into covert drug abuse and they must contend with passive aggression and denial. Dependency issues, to which the DDU may contribute, arise with chronic clients. Psychodynamic themes, even where identified as important, are difficult to follow through and link to outcome. There are inherent constraints in a medical model of management addressing behaviours which are as much the property of social context as of definable individual psychopathology. The AIDS crisis may bring new funds but also new pressures: DDUs may come to be judged essentially by their ability to shield the general population from HIV. This would have implications for the ethos of individual treatment and for team make-up.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0952-0481
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
85
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
589-92
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
Some reflections on dynamics and dilemmas in a DDU.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychiatry, St Georges Hospital, London, UK.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article