A grounded study of the experience of detoxification from psychoactive drugs.

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A grounded study of the experience of detoxification from psychoactive drugs.

The main objective of this thesis was to develop a substantive theory that explained the phenomenon of detoxification from psychoactive drugs such as alcohol, tranquillisers, opioids, and amphetamines in a medical treatment unit for licit and illicit drug users. The other objectives were to (a) dete...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bartu, Anne
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	Curtin University 1998
Subjects:	drug users detoxification psychoactive drugs
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1748

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