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Beyond Platitudes: Problem Drug Use: a review of training
Author(s) -
Farrell Michael
Publication year - 1990
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.1360-0443.1990.tb01642.x
Subject(s) - training (meteorology) , standardization , agency (philosophy) , foundation (evidence) , advisory committee , medical education , action (physics) , engineering ethics , medicine , political science , engineering , public administration , sociology , law , social science , physics , quantum mechanics , meteorology
The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs has published a report entitled Problem Drug Use: A Review of Training. It reviews existing training and the organization of training in the UK. It recommends that future training should be conducted on a substance problems basis with the integration of drug and alcohol problems. It recommends that each speciality should define minimal standards and that basic training should cover substance problems and states that there is a need for standardization and thorough evaluation of all training activities. The committee recommends the establishment of a National Drug Training Development Agency. The report is critically reviewed and compared to previous reports on training in the drug and alcohol field published in the past decade. Recommendations made ten years ago have still not been implemented. Are such reports an alternative to action? It is argued that a strong network of national trainers is the only foundation on which an effective and organizationally coherent training system can be developed over the next decade.