Social Work With People With Substance Problems In Scotland

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Social Work With People With Substance Problems In Scotland

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Social Work With People With Substance Problems In Scotland

Abstract

Case Study

Leanne [22] & her mother, Mrs. Smart, have come to the office. Mrs. Smart is much the more talkative & says that her daughter has been injecting heroin for about a year but, although she had her suspicions, she only discovered the full extent of this recently when Leanne & her son moved in with her. Mrs. Smart says Leanne normally injects twice a day, smokes heroin on occasions & also sometimes takes street valium. She says Leanne no longer drinks. Leanne is a single parent with a son, Scott [aged four]. Leanne, Scott & Mrs. Smart live together in a council flat in an area of the city with higher than average indicators of deprivation.

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Mrs. Smart split up from her first husband just after Leanne was born. This man was a heavy drinker. Mrs. Smart remarried but this relationship ended when Leanne was eleven. This man also drank heavily & physically assaulted Mrs. Smart. The family were known to the Social Work Department at that stage & there were unproven allegations that Leanne's stepfather had physically abused her. Leanne left school with few qualifications. She had various jobs in shops but decided to look after Scott full-time. She has no contact with Scott's father. From the age of fourteen, Leanne drank heavily most weekends with a group of school friends. In her late teens she continued to binge drink but also to use various drugs [cannabis, ecstasy, amphetamines]. She had her own tenancy but felt she...