Outreach strategies in the USA, Netherlands and UK tend either to be treatment oriented or to aim for safer injecting. These should be seen as complementary objectives both capable of reducing HIV transmission. Providing services ‘on the street’ rather than…
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Druglink article 1990 – Helping the sniffers by Richard Ives
Valid professional approaches to solvent misuse may range from doing nothing to in-depth individual counselling or family therapy and action in the local community or wider society. They are not mutually exclusive. Workers should carefully tailor their mix of responses…
Druglink article 1990 – Fair trial for justice proposals by Una Padel
Drug agency clients could benefit from government criminal justice proposals. Implementing the White Paper, Crime, Justice and Protecting the Public could prevent offenders being sentenced on their record and make courts justify imprisonment. These together with greater use of probation…
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 funding crisis for rehabs by David Tomlinson
Community care funding arrangements coming into force next April will decrease the guaranteed per-resident payment to residential drug projects and leave the bulk of the funding at the discretion of local authorities which may need to assess each applicant. Local…
Druglink article 1990 – Ways to open the surgery door by Tom Waller
Why rejecting special payments for GPs may jeopardise our whole AIDS programme Expanding specialist services cannot fulfill the urgent need for greater medical involvement in drug treatment and HIV prevention. Mass participation by GPs can, but this means reversing the effects…
Druglink article 1990 – Dealing with the health market by Peter Mason
The NHS and community care reorganisations will create a health care market with many purchasers and providers. Market forces could further fragment services and force even popular agencies to close. To regulate the market both sides should establish consortia or…
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 1990 – Nursing by rote by David Richards
Despite the rhetoric, is it still fit in or get out in Britain’s inpatient drug units? Nursing by rote (PDF)
Druglink article 1990 – Towards a national drug database by Michael Donmall
The Department of Health has instructed RHAs to establish drug misuse databases and recommended they adopt the system developed for the North West. The system’s originator explains that it preserves client confidentiality while gathering information on a much wider range…