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The role of CAMHS and addiction psychiatry in adolescent substance misuse services
- Authors:
- ALDRIDGE Tom, et al
- Publisher:
- National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 51p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Substance misuse is a major public health problem with the potential to impair the development of many young people. This document highlights the intricate and complex relationships between adolescent mental health and adolescent substance use, and demonstrates the potential for recovery and rehabilitation of a large group of substance-misusing and dependent young people. This is achievable by better assessment of the most severely affected young people, delivery of more systematic, practical interventions, and a much greater synergy between mental health services and those working currently in the substance misuse field. Collaboration may be required between a range of professionals and agencies, including education, paediatrics, early intervention in psychosis teams, child and adolescent mental health services, and child protection services. This document presents a number of service descriptions compiled by psychiatrists who have blended knowledge of child and adolescent mental health and addiction, skills and treatments, and who have facilitated and developed distinctive services. Taken together, these descriptions provide a new vision of the potential course of service development.