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Safeguarding conference 2015 – playing safe
Are we doing enough to protect children from their parents’ drug and alcohol use? At a recent safeguarding conference there was plenty of cause for concern, as DDN reports. ‘Graham Greene said “There...
View ArticleACMD rejects time-limited substitution therapy
Time limits on heroin substitution treatment such as methadone would ‘not benefit’ drug users’ recovery and would increase the possibility of relapse, according to a new report from the Advisory...
View ArticleACMD rejects time-limited substitution treatments
Time limits on heroin substitution treatment such as methadone would ‘not benefit’ drug users’ recovery and would increase the possibility of relapse, according to a new report from the Advisory...
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Diverted methadone
Kill or cure? Is it time for us to reappraise our relationship with the ‘life-saving’ drug methadone? Dave Marteau discusses the evidence Since the early 1970s, methadone has been the predominant...
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Correct methadone dosage vital for people being treated for TB
Methadone dose optimisation is vital when treating people on opioid substitution programmes for tuberculosis (TB) and other conditions, according to new research. Researchers at Aston University’s...
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Agents of change
We urgently need to become activists once more, argues Nick Wilson in his contribution to The Vision Project. Read the full article in DDN Magazine The UK’s well-deserved reputation for developing gold...
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Supervised humiliation?
Alex Boyt – pic by Nigel Brunsdon In the real world, methadone provision too often means diversion, using on top – and humiliating supervised consumption, says Alex Boyt. Read the full article in DDN...
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It’s My Script
There’s no automatic reason to revert to stigmatising daily pick-ups, as DDN reports. ‘COVID has changed all our lives massively, as we know – but it’s affected drug users in one rather good way.’ At a...
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