Injecting Illicit DrugsISBN: 978-1-4051-1360-1
Paperback
200 pages
August 2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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Dr Andrew McBride MB ChB MSc FRCPsych has been a
Consultant Psychiatrist with the Specialist Community Addiction
Service in Oxford since 2002. After training in Manchester and
south Wales, he established Mid Glamorgan Community Drug and
Alcohol Team in 1988 and moved to the Community Addiction Unit in
Cardiff in 1996. His clinical interests include the implementation
of structured interventions using team and interagency approaches.
Publications have been eclectic, including studies of amphetamine
prescribing, cannabis use and needle fixation, and reviews of
alcohol withdrawal treatment and khat use. He has recently
co-edited an introductory textbook on substance misuse.
Karin Arnold is a researcher at the Cardiff Community Addiction Unit, and a psychology postgraduate at the University of Cardiff. She is currently working on a dexamphetamine treatment trial and has a continued interest in the study of needle fixation.