Premium
Management of Solvent Misuse: A Glasgow Community Approach
Author(s) -
Sourindhrin I.,
Baird J. A.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
british journal of addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0952-0481
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1984.tb03860.x
Subject(s) - incidence (geometry) , psychiatry , intervention (counseling) , psychology , medicine , family medicine , physics , optics
Summary The broad spectrum approach to the management of solvent abuse adopted at a clinic held at a police station in the East End of Glasgow, in collaboration with members of the community involvement branch of the police, is described. The results reported in this study concern 300 children below the age of 16years, who attended the clinic between October 1978 and December 1980. The facets of the study which are of central interest are: the role of the police, the apparent resolution of the activity, the lack of physical damage, the very low incidence of associated psychiatric disorder, and the increased incidence of solvent use by children of single parent families and in those families where the father is unemployed and in only a minority of cases is there a mixed disturbance of conduct and emotions for which psychiatric intervention is warranted.