UK. Drug misuse and dependence: UK guidelines on clinical management - How clinicians should treat people with drug misuse and drug dependence problems.
UK. Drug misuse and dependence: UK guidelines on clinical management - How clinicians should treat people with drug misuse and drug dependence problems.
Often called the Orange Book, this is guidance for clinicians treating people with drug problems.
This 2017 version offers new guidelines on:
- prison-based treatment
- new psychoactive substances and club drugs
- mental health co-morbidity
- misuse of prescribed and over-the-counter medicines
- stopping smoking
- preventing drug-related deaths, including naloxone provision
The new guidelines also have a stronger emphasis on recovery and a holistic approach to the interventions that can support recovery. (Clinical Guidelines on Drug Misuse and Dependence Update 2017, Independent Expert Working Group (2017) Drug misuse and dependence: UK guidelines on clinical management. London: Department of Health. Department of Health, Drug misuse and dependency, 14.07.2017)