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)
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Druglink article 2014 – A generation ignored by Jane Ward and Julia Sinclair
Although tackling alcohol use remains on the national agenda, many practitioners are aware they are only addressing the tip of the iceberg. Who is the main group missing from specialist services? It’s the over-50s. A generation ignored (PDF)
Druglink Findings 2014 – Should dependent drinkers always try for abstinence? by Mike Ashton
Mike Ashton of Drug and Alcohol Findings on the milestones in the bitterest controversies ever seen in addiction treatment research. Should dependent drinkers always try for abstinence? (PDF)
Druglink news item 1999 – ‘Orange book’ views from the frontline
Druglink asked five individuals with substantive collective experience of the British drug treatment field for their views on the new clinical guidelines on the treatment of drug dependency. Opinion seemed widely divided. ‘Orange book’ views from the frontline (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 2014 – Money talks by Max Daly
How successful are attempts to incentivise service users towards better health? The use of incentives to reward people for taking positive action, in the field of public health, is a relatively new and untested development in the UK. One of the first trials took place in…
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 – Family values: rethinking children’s needs living with drug-using parents by Tom Aldridge
Assessing whether or not the children of drug-using parents are at risk of neglect or abuse is more than just waiting for a chaotic parent to have an acute episode and then trying to deal with it. Tom Aldridge argues…
Druglink Findings summary 2014 – What do patients want? by Mike Ashton and David Ader
Mike Ashton and David Ader of Drug and Alcohol Findings on the importance of patients’ wishes, and the difficulties inherent in discovering what those are. Findings: What do patients want? (PDF)