Thirty five years treating alcohol and drug addiction have taught Dr Bewley caution and respect for research. Prescribe with caution (PDF)
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Druglink article 1987 – Stabilise not criminalise by Ann Dally
Twice rebuked by her own profession’s disciplinary committee, Dr Ann Dally still forcefully argues the case for stabilisation treatment for long-term opiate addicts. Stabilise not criminalise (PDF)
Druglink article 1987 – Maintenance or abstinence by Jackie Chang
Countering AIDS and curing addiction are different aims requiring radically different strategies. Half-hearted merger could doom both to failure. Maintenance or abstinence (PDF)
Druglink article 1987 – State rationed drugs by John Marks
John Marks’s acceptance of a role as purveyor of state-rationed opiates on a ‘maintenance’ basis to addicts determined to continue their addiction, contrasts sharply with anti-maintenance treatment trends elsewhere but he maintains better a live maintained addict than a dead…
Druglink article 1987 – Look before you leap by Roy Robertson
Half the drug injectors at Roy Robertson’s practice in the early 1980s were HIV positive, showing Edinburgh to be one of Europe’s Aids black spots but he believes a panic policy shift back to prescribing is no way to counter…
Druglink article 1987 – The prescribing debate by John Strang
Until recently most doctors were moving quietly away from the long-term ‘maintenance’ prescribing of the ’60s, but disputes within the medical profession and the need to counter the spread of AIDS have brought the prescribing issue back on the policy…
Druglink article 1986 – Doctors at war 2 by Mike Ashton
The government’s decision not to extend legal curbs on prescribing to addicts leaves two ways of enforcing control on ‘errant’ doctors. In the second part of this series, mike Ashton, describes how these have recently been put into effect, as…
Druglink article 1986 – Doctors at war by Mike Ashton
Should doctors be allowed to prescribe whatever drugs in whatever quantities they think best? Or should the government ban all but ‘experts’ from the minefield of prescribing addictive drugs to drug addicts? Mike Ashton looks at the arguments, events and…
What types of treatment are there?
People who have problems with drug use can access help and treatment either through the health and welfare system. (via drug advice services or GP referral) or through the criminal justice system if they have committed an offence. Health and welfare…