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)
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Druglink article 2013 – New age austerity highs by Steve Wakeman and Toby Seddon
In the 1980s heroin use rocketed alongside spiralling deprivation. So why, now we have returned to an era of austerity, is heroin use falling? New age austerity highs (PDF) Additional keywords: Prebagabalin
Druglink news item 2014 – Children at risk
Adfam, the national charity for families affected by drugs and alcohol, have published a new report that shines a light on one of the murkier corners of addiction treatment. Medications in drug treatment: tackling the risks to children addresses the dangers presented to children when they ingest…
Druglink article 2014 – 1986: The battle for the right to prescribe – Doctors at war by Mike Ashton
Through the 1970s, consultant psychiatrists in the NHS drug clinics had been moving away from prescribing any injectable drug to oral methadone – and also on a reducing dose basis. But there were still doctors in the community (both private…
Druglink news item 1998 – Orange book signals sweeping changes
If a doctor needs a license to prescribe any drug other than methadone mixture, there will be considerable pressure not to prescribe any other drug. Orange book signals sweeping changes (PDF)
Druglink article 1997 – Substitute prescribing – Social policy or individual treatment? and why we must make the decision by Duncan Raistrick
The Lewisham Citizen’s Jury concluded that methadone was more dangerous than heroin. If the educated public think this, can substitute prescribing have much of a future? Substitute prescribing – Social policy or individual treatment? (PDF) Additional keywords: heroin maintenance /…
Druglink article 1996 – Methadone works by Tom Carnwath
In the first Druglink of 1996, an article claimed that methadone had a death rate four times that of heroin. If this is true, the drug field’s response to heroin addiction urgently needs to be reconsidered. However, a brief analysis…
Druglink article 1996 – A secret history? The truth behind methadone by Andrew Preston and Gerald Bennett
In 1938, two German scientists discovered what is now known as methadone. They passed it on to the military authorities but little was done about the drug and it lay unexploited until the end of the war, when commercial production…
Druglink article 1996 – Live and let die – Is methadone more likely to kill you than heroin? by Russell Newcombe
This article focuses on evidence about opiate-related deaths. More specifically, it examines the statistics for methadone related deaths and compares them with those for heroin. The question posed is, what are the relative mortality risks of using methadone compared to…
Druglink article 1995 – Who killed the British system? by John Marks
Forced through the health services market to close his drug dependence clinic, John Marks fires his parting shot at the doctors he accuses of having dismantled the ‘British system’ Who killed the British system? (PDF) Additional keywords: heroin prescribing /…