Doctors warn on prescription drug addiction
A consensus statement has been issued by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) cautioning against the long-term prescribing of medicines that...
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Post-its From Practice
Some do, some don’t All GPs should see involvement in drug and alcohol treatment as the norm, says Dr Steve Brinksman. I became interested in working with people who develop problems due to their drug...
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This year’s SMMGP and RCGP conference brought GPs, frontline workers, commissioners and service users together to explore the topics of prevention and early intervention in the new public health...
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2015 RCGP national conference
Better together With primary care facing its severest set of challenges, delegates at the 2015 RCGP national conference argued vociferously for GPs to remain at the centre of substance misuse...
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Naloxone distribution
Keep nagging on naloxone DDN listened to a lively lunchtime meeting of The Naloxone Action Group (NAG) at the RCGP conference, looking at barriers to naloxone distribution A show of hands revealed that...
View ArticleDoctors warn on prescription drug addiction
A consensus statement has been issued by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) cautioning against the long-term prescribing of medicines that...
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Post-its From Practice
Some do, some don’t All GPs should see involvement in drug and alcohol treatment as the norm, says Dr Steve Brinksman. I became interested in working with people who develop problems due to their drug...
View ArticleCatch them early
This year’s SMMGP and RCGP conference brought GPs, frontline workers, commissioners and service users together to explore the topics of prevention and early intervention in the new public health...
View ArticleClik here to view.
2015 RCGP national conference
Better together With primary care facing its severest set of challenges, delegates at the 2015 RCGP national conference argued vociferously for GPs to remain at the centre of substance misuse...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Naloxone distribution
Keep nagging on naloxone DDN listened to a lively lunchtime meeting of The Naloxone Action Group (NAG) at the RCGP conference, looking at barriers to naloxone distribution A show of hands revealed that...
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A name not a number: ‘Behind every drug-related death statistic is a life...
Behind every drug-related death statistic is a life that could have been saved. It’s our duty to do more, says Dr Judith Yates. I first met David in the 1980s when, as a small child, his mother kept...
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Commissioning is risking lives, say GPs
Poor commissioning practice is putting patients’ lives at stake, declared the GPs’ conference. ‘Only recommission services if they are ineffective, dangerous or wasteful – not on a whim,’ said Dr...
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Government launches prescription drug review
Public Health England (PHE) is to launch an independent review into the ‘growing problem’ of prescription drug dependency, the government has announced. Dependence-forming drugs such as opioids,...
View ArticleDoctors warn on prescription drug addiction
A consensus statement has been issued by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) cautioning against the long-term prescribing of medicines that...
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Post-its From Practice
Some do, some don’t All GPs should see involvement in drug and alcohol treatment as the norm, says Dr Steve Brinksman. I became interested in working with people who develop problems due to their drug...
View ArticleCatch them early
This year’s SMMGP and RCGP conference brought GPs, frontline workers, commissioners and service users together to explore the topics of prevention and early intervention in the new public health...
View ArticleClik here to view.
2015 RCGP national conference
Better together With primary care facing its severest set of challenges, delegates at the 2015 RCGP national conference argued vociferously for GPs to remain at the centre of substance misuse...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Naloxone Action Group
Keep nagging on naloxone, says the naloxone action Group DDN listened to a lively lunchtime meeting of The Naloxone Action Group (NAG) at the RCGP conference, looking at barriers to naloxone...
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‘Whole-system approach’ needed to tackle prison drug deaths
The prevention of deaths in custody and after release needs to be ‘central to all work on substance misuse in the criminal justice system’, according to a report from the Independent Advisory Panel on...
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Rough Justice
The time was long overdue for looking at alternatives to a criminal justice-based approach to drugs, heard delegates at the Royal College of GPs and Addiction Professionals online conference. ‘We’d all...
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