Substance Use, End-of-Life Care and Multiple Deprivation : Practice and Research (Paperback)

1.Introduction.  Part I: Different voices (Introduction by Gary Witham).  2.Death is not an abstract now: approaching end of life as someone using substances.  3.Views from the coalface: social and health care professionals working with people using substances at, or near, the end of their lives.  4.Seeing the common ground: family and practitioner caregivers’ perspectives of palliative care for people using substances.  Part II: Health inequalities (Introduction by Sam Wright).  5.Health literacy and substance use within palliative and end-of-life care.  6.Learning disabilities and substance use at the end of life: listening to the unheard.  7.Improving end-of-life care for people with co-existing mental health and substance use.  8.Ageing (dis)gracefully: People who inject drugs living with hepatitis C and the provision of end-of-life care.  Part III: Social inequalities (Introduction by Sarah Galvani).  9.Homelessness and substance use within palliative and end-of-life care.  10 ? Jane’s journey: substance use, palliative care and sex work.  11.Reflecting on the challenges and inequalities facing Black and minoritized communities in accessing substance use services, palliative and end-of-life care.  12.Unequal in life and death: substance use, disadvantage and end-of-life care in prison.  13.Reflections and recommendations: multiple disadvantage, substance use and end-of-life care.