Abstract
Let us start at the point where we recognise crisis: what conclusions do we reach? The Chinese ideogram for crisis comprises two parts — one denoting danger and the other denoting opportunity. The rhetoric in both informed and ill-informed public and scientific debate has been dominated by consideration of danger, with attempts to define both the quality and quantity of this danger. However AIDS is also forcing a fundamental reappraisal of the attitudes of treatment services to the wider drug using population; and with this re-examination by service-planners and providers, a similar re-appraisal must necessarily be undertaken by the broader society within which both the drug users and the carers exist.
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Strang, J. (1991). The Crisis and Opportunity of AIDS and Drug Misuse. In: Loimer, N., Schmid, R., Springer, A. (eds) Drug Addiction and AIDS. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-9173-6_41
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