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)
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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 – 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 1987 – Preparing for the birth by Patricia Kearney
At a London hospital, obstetric and dependence teams have cooperated to offer a non-threatening ‘package deal’ to pregnant drug users. Preparing for the birth (PDF) Pregnancy
Druglink article 1987 – The pregnant addict by Annas Dixon
Pregnancy in a drug taker puts at least three people at risk: the baby, the mother – and the social worker, at risk of personal distress and public infamy if leaving the child with the mother goes wrong; at risk…
Druglink article 1987 – Dependence on tranquillisers by Malcolm Lader
Some say it’s worse than coming off heroin, other’s that it’s nearly ‘all in the mind’ – an example of the myths and confusion surrounding withdrawal from benzodiazepine tranquillisers, the most widely prescribed drugs in the world. One of Britain’s…
Druglink article 1987 – Time to build bridges by Brian Wells
NA and the Minnesota Method in Britain. AAs ‘Twelve steps’ form the basis of an increasingly influential rehabilitation movement in Britain, ranging from the self-help groups of Narcotics Anonymous to £1000 a week clinics in Hampstead. The elements of ‘private’…
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…
Treatment/Recovery – alcohol
Barriers to Recovery: Overcoming obstacles to alcohol recovery in the UK Research shows that dependent drinkers face multiple, persistent barriers to entering recovery and social reintegration. This report uses data from interviews with professionals working in addiction and alcohol harm…