Drug misuse and dependence: UK guidelines on clinical management

Often called the Orange Book, this is guidance for clinicians treating people with drug problems.

This 2017 version offers new guidelines on:

• prison-based treatment
• new psychoactive substances and club drugs
• mental health co-morbidity
• misuse of prescribed and over-the-counter medicines
• stopping smoking
• preventing drug-related deaths, including naloxone provision

The new guidelines also have a stronger emphasis on recovery and a holistic approach to the interventions that can support recovery.

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