Grave Cause for Concern’? Private Practice, Professional Disputes and the Treatment of Heroin Addiction in Britain During the 1980s

Bibliographic Data

ID12585375
AuthorsAlex Mold (0000-0001-9674-9953, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume22
Issue1
Pages67-88
Publication date2008-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueContemporary British History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1361-9462 • E-ISSN: 1743-7997
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13619460601065800
OpenAlexW2087872704
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited26

This article examines the debate surrounding the role played by private doctors in the treatment of heroin addiction in Britain during the 1980s. Whilst there were a number of problems connected with the treatment of addiction in private practice, this debate was something of a surface issue masking a deeper professional dispute. The involvement of general practitioners, whether in private or National Health Service practice, posed a threat to the recently established specialist status of psychiatrists working in the field. This came at a time when the specialist psychiatric approach to drug addition was increasingly being challenged by other non-medical agencies

Addiction · Criminology · Drug · Family medicine · Heroin · Heroin addiction · Political science · Private practice · Psychiatry · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Public Administration · Torture, Ethics, and Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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