Why Drug Users Sought Help From One London Drug Clinic

Abstract

Summary This report seeks to explore the issue of help seeking of ‘new to treatment’ drug users at one London Drug Dependency Clinic. The focus is on the drug users' reasons for seeking help and for choice of service or agency. One of the most striking findings was that subjects perceived themselves as having little or no choice of agency and most knew very little about the way it operated. They came for help because of their addiction to drugs or for emotional reasons and not because they were unable to get drugs.