Treatment and care for older drug users
EMCDDA, Lisbon, November 2010
Publication type:
Selected issues
Summary:
'Drug problems have no age limits' -- This special review published alongside the 2010 Annual report, reveals why drug use is no longer simply a ‘youth phenomenon’.
Europe is experiencing a pronounced ageing of its population, around a quarter of which will be aged 65 or over by 2050. Statistics published today show that Europe’s drug-using population is also ageing and that meeting the needs of older drug users is a growing issue for treatment services. This is particularly the case in western countries which saw the EU’s first heroin epidemics in the 1980s and 1990s.
Table of contents
- Introduction
- Setting the scene: ageing and drug use in Europe
- Ageing and problem drug use
- Drug use, health and social characteristics of older problem drug users in Europe
- Responses to older problem drug users: policies, treatment and care
- Overall findings
Pages:
36Price:
freeISBN/ISSN:
10.2810/39905
