The use of substitute medications such as methadone in treatment for opiate dependency has always been controversial. But what does the clinical evidence say? Mike Ashton takes a look at where things currently stand… Has methadone been rehabilitated? (PDF) Additional keywords: methadone…
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Druglink letter 2002 – Rapid opiate detoxification and the striking off of Dr Gary Gerson by Colin Brewer
The disciplining of Dr Gary Gerson for fatally mismanaging the treatment of Brendan Woodhead following Rapid Opiate Detoxification was expected and deserved… Rapid opiate detoxification and the striking off of Dr Gary Gerson (PDF)
Druglink letter 2001 – Alternatives to licensing doctors
Recent proposals to license doctors who treat drug users with controlled drugs other than oral methadone mixture, will deter doctors from working in this area. THis was excatle why a similar licensing proposal was rejected in 1984. Alternatives to licensing…
Druglink article 2013 – A Tripp down memory lane by Harry Shapiro
The prescribing habits of a handful of London doctors led to what some have described as the beginning of the end for the ‘British System’. A Tripp down memory lane (PDF)
Druglink article 1999 – Doctors with attitude: More GPs do care by Chris Ford and Iain Ryrie
An assumption has developed that most GPs resist caring for problem drug users, but this negative view, generated by specialists, media and the GPs themselves, goes against the evidence. Doctors with attitude: More GPs do care (PDF)
Druglink news item 1999 – New ‘Orange’ guidelines: care or control?
GPs routinely involved in the care of drug users have given a qualified welcome to the newly-revised DoH guidelines on the clinical management of drug dependency. New ‘Orange’ guidelines: care or control? (PDF)
Druglink article 1999 – Nature or nuture: doctors with attitude by Ira Unell, Douglas Cameron and MM Christie
You don’t have to be in the drug field long before you come across a doctor who seems less than sympathetic to drug-using patients. Indeed, most GPs refuse to have anything to do with ‘those damn junkies’. But as the…
Druglink article 1999 – Lofexidine: some questions answered by Jacqueline Akhurst
Lofexidine as a detox drug was first trialled in the early 1980s. But at the end of this decade the US manufacturer thought the drug had no future and withdrew it. Since then, and with a new manufacturer, support for…
Druglink article 1999 – Singing from the same hymn sheet: Still struggling with multi-disciplinary teams by Tony Herbert
At the end of 1997, Druglink carried an article examining the theory of multi-disciplinary drug teams. A year on, we have to ask ourselves whether Community Psychiatric Nurses and social workers alone constitute a multi-disciplinary team or are Community Drug…
Druglink article 1999 – Caring and sharing: Modelling successful shared care by Jim Barnard and Claire Higson
It’s been around for as long as you care to remember – in theory. But the practice of shared care has all too often failed to live up to the ideal. So here, the leaders of one of the country’s…