Clinical guidelines for withdrawal management and treatment of drug dependence in closed settings.

These WHO guidelines are designed to assist staff of closed settings to provide safe and effective withdrawal management and treatment services for people who use drugs in the Western Pacific Region. It provides information about drugs and drug dependence; the management of drug withdrawal; and appr...

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Corporate Author: World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Western Pacific
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Manila : World Health Organization, Western Pacific Region, ©2009.
Series:Wpro Nonserial Publication.
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Summary:These WHO guidelines are designed to assist staff of closed settings to provide safe and effective withdrawal management and treatment services for people who use drugs in the Western Pacific Region. It provides information about drugs and drug dependence; the management of drug withdrawal; and approaches to treatment for drug dependence. For the purposes of this document, "closed settings" refers to prisons, work camps, compulsory drug treatment centers and any other institution in which people are detained. The Guidelines take a public health approach to drug use and dependence. This appr.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 91 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9789290614722
9290614722
9789290614302
9290614307
Language:English.
Reproduction Note:Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.
Action Note:digitized