‘Virtual unavailability’ of methadone blamed for the deaths in Scotland. Drug user deaths up tenfold in Glasgow (PDF)
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Druglink article 1991 – Drug politics in Liverpool: a personal account by Allan Parry
Part one of this two part account described how in the early 80s the Militant-dominated Liverpool City Council adopted a populist ‘war on drugs’ stance to gain support for its confrontation with the Conservative government. Until then seen by his…
Druglink article 1991 – The smoking option by John Marks, Andrew Palombella and Russell Newcombe
For two years Mersey drug dependency units (DDUs) have been prescribing heroin to opiate injectors to encourage them to move away from injecting. Smokable cocaine and amphetamine are also prescribed. Smoking stimulates the ‘rush’ from injecting and may be suitable…
Druglink article 1990 – The cost of prescribing by Mike Smith
Using methadone to attract and maintain clients may make good anti HIV sense – but who is going to pay the drug bill? The cost of prescribing (PDF) Additional keywords: budgets / costs / methadone maintenance
Druglink article 1990 – Prescribing heroin: does it work? by Martin Mitcheson and Richard Hartnoll
A study in 1972-76 randomly allocated heroin addicts seeking a heroin prescription into two groups, one prescribed injectable heroin, the other only oral methadone. Twelve months later many more of the heroin group were still in treatment but more were…
Druglink article 1990 – The limits of intervention by Geoffrey Pearson, Mark Gilman and Paul Traynor
How travel sickness tablets forced workers to face the fact that sometimes there’s little you can do. The limits of intervention (PDF) Additional keywords: Cyclizine / Diconal / Temgesic / Scotland
Druglink article 1990 – New treatments for opiate dependence by Colin Brewer
For some opiate addicts the usual oral methadone regimes are inappropriate or ineffective. Alternative regimes are available. Injectable methadone ampoules can now be labelled to help prevent diversion. Long-acting substitutes for methadone and drugs that block the effects of opiates…
Druglink article 1989 – Motivating change by Keith Bolton and Robert Watt
At Northern Road clinic in Portsmouth, methadone pulls in the clients and ‘motivational interviewing’ helps nudge them to move away from drugs. Motivating change (PDF) Additional keywords: counselling / motivation / Prochaska / DiClemente / Process of change model /…
Druglink article 1989 – A low threshold methadone programme by Philip Fleming
Flexible, accessible, attractive – that’s what government and their advisers say addiction clinics should be to counter HIV. At Northern Road they’ve thrown out the waiting lists and detoxification timetables and let the clients set the goals. A low threshold…
Druglink article 1987 – Substitution is not a solution by Raj Rathod
When clinics all around began long-term opiate prescribing, Doctor Rathod’s prescribed none at all. He still believes giving in to blackmail helps neither the addict nor society. Substitution is not a solution (PDF)