Effectiveness Bank Matrix Cell: Bridging the Chasm; Legal Drug Prescribers Relating to Illegal Drug Users
Submitted by Mike Ashton
- 14 March 2018
In 1960s Britain a chasm of opposing agendas and social distance opened up between doctors treating drug addiction and their patients. This cell of the Drug Treatment Matrix examines how bridging such chasms makes treatment more effective. Focus is on asking how clinician-patient relationships might be affected by unpopular rules on supervising medication consumption and testing for drug use, and on exploring the importance of treating users of illegal drugs as more than a patient or addict - as a ‘whole person’.
