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- In this Issue
- Editorial
- Britain's Biggest Hangover: An Overview of the Effect of Alcohol
- Alcoholics Anonymous - An Overview
- The Big Drink Debate - Is it Time to Up the Ante?
- Genetics and Alcohol-Related Liver Disorders
- Alcohol, Viral Hepatitis and Liver Disease
- Implementing Alcohol Screening and Brief Interventions in General Practice: SIPS Trial and Tribulations
- Community Alcohol Detoxification
- Therapeutic Interventions in Alcohol Treatment
- Advocacy: A Personal View
- Helping Patients to Manage Their Drinking
- Michael Varnam House: Alcohol Detoxification Using Monitored Alcohol Consumption
- The RCGP Certificate in the Management of Alcohol Problems in Primary Care
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Community Alcohol Detoxification
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Alcohol and Methadone
- Bulletin Board
- In this Issue
- Editorial
- Ketamine
- Pain Management and Addiction in the Acute Hospital
- Alcohol, Amphetamines, Cannabis, Cocaine and Ecstasy - AACCE Substance Use in the North West of England: The Changing Profile of Substance Users Engaged in Treatment
- Preventing Unplanned Discharges from Drug Treatment Services - A Summary
- Young People's Drug and Alcohol Services: A View from Plymouth
- Drug Policy at the Crossroads?
- Recovery in Practice
- Lawyer Fixit's Advice - Housing Advice
- Release: Drugs, The Law & Human Rights
- Methadone: Protecting Lives and Minimising Deaths
- When is a Drug Related Death Not a Drug Related Death? ...When it is a Drug Associated Death!
- The RCGP Certificate in the Management of Alcohol Problems in Primary Care
- Employment in Drug Services
- Children and Families at the Centre
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Suboxone
- Pharmacy Fixit's Advice - Prescription Writing
- Conferences & Events
- In this Issue
- Editorial
- Thoughts on Recovery - A Personal View
- The Wiltshire Naloxone Pilot: The Right to Life
- Clinical Governance for Drugs Services in Primary Care
- Alcohol - The Poor Relation: What Can We Do in General Practice?
- Pensioner Wants Drug Baron Job
- Safeguarding: The Essentials
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Safeguarding Children
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Clinical Governance
- Bulletin Board
- In this Issue
- Editorial
- Anabolic steroids
- The Roll-Out of Dried Blood Spot Testing in Greater Manchester
- Caring for the Carers: A New Service for Doctors & Dentists
- Prejudice & Dogma in Treatment
- The Devil's Advocate? Advocacy for Patients in Primary Care
- A View on Drug Treatment
- Care Plans, NDTMS & TOP: How They Can Adversely Affect Patient Care
- Response from the RCGP Substance Misuse Unit in Relation to the Treatment Outcome Profile Criminal Justice Question
- Provision of HIV Medication in Police Stations and the Withholding of Other Essential Medications for Drug Users in Custody
- New NICE Guidance Promotes Benefits of Needle & Syringe Programmes
- Education & Employment - The Best Treatment?
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Polydrug Use
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Steroids
- Bulletin Board
- In this Issue
- Editorial
- The Prison Integrated Drug Treatment System (IDTS)
- The Introduction of the Prison Integrated Drug Treatment System in England
- The Clinical & Organisational Aspects of a Large-scale Prison Substitution Programme
- The Treatment of Substance Users in Prison: Easy to Reach But Easier to Ignore?
- Advocacy in Prisons
- Integrated Drug Treatment System at HMP Bristol: A Pharmacy Perspective
- Clinical Substance Misuse & Related Issues in Women's Prisons
- Carers' Experience of the Criminal Justice System
- Brief Interventions for Alcohol in Prisons
- Getting Out of Jail
- Implementing the Psychosocial Element of the Integrated Drug Treatment System in Prisons: An "On the Ground" Perspective
- Call for Papers, Film and Other Media
- RCGP Certificate in Substance Misuse: Additions for those Working in Secure Environments & How to Apply
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Pathways Between the Community & Prisons
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Dual Diagnosis
- Bulletin Board
- In this Issue
- Editorial
- Is "Recovery" Splitting the Drug Treatment Field?
- SMMGP Network Reader Survey - We're Great!
- Natural Recovery: What Can We Learn from Those Who Manage Without Us?
- Codeine & Dihydrocodeine in Opioid Dependence Treatment
- Why Do Drug Injectors Share Needles & Syringes?
- Barriers to Addiction Treatment & Persons with Disabilities: An Overlooked Problem
- Network Special Supplement - A Flag in the Breeze
- What to Do with Those Leg Ulcers?
- The Dangers of Prescribing Cyclizine to Opiate Injectors ...A Reminder
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Morphine Sulphate
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)
- Bulletin Board
- In this Issue
- Editorial
- Why Are We Fighting?
- Methadone & the Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death
- Black or White - What Does it Matter?
- Drugs & Sex Working
- Safety Versus Choice: The Use of Suboxone in Primary Care
- There's No Such Thing as "Hard to Reach People" - Only "Hard to Access" Services
- The New Drug Strategy
- SMMGP Member Survey Results - The 2007 Clinical Guidelines
- The Department of General Practice & Primary Care at the University of Aberdeen Survey of Scottish GPs
- Dr Fixit's Advice - High Dose Methadone & ECGs
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Homelessness
- Bulletin Board
- In this Issue
- Editorial
- High Walls & No Entry Signs
- Recommissioning of Drugs Services - A Personal View
- Dual Diagnosis - What Does Policy & Research Tell Us?
- Cannabis & the Law
- We've Come a Long Way
- Tier 4 ...A Tier Too Far!?
- Whatever Happened to Hidden Harm? Evidencing a Missed Opportunity
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Dual Diagnosis
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Drugs & Alcohol
- Bulletin Board
- In this Issue
- Editorial
- Clinical Guidance Special Edition
- The New 2007 Orange Guidelines: An Overview
- The Status of the 2007 Clinical Guidelines
- Key Points from Drug Misuse & Dependence: UK Guidelines on Clinical Management (Sep 2007)
- A Personal View of the Clinical Guidelines on Drug Dependency 2007
- Injectable Opioid Treatment in the 2007 Clinical Guidelines
- Drug Misuse & Dependence: UK Guidelines on Clinical Management 2007
- Commentary on Drug Misuse & Dependence: UK Guidelines on Clinical Management 2007
- The Status of the NICE Documentation
- NICE Technology Appraisal Guidance 114: Methadone & Buprenorphine for the Management of Opioid Dependency (Jan 2007)
- NICE Technology Appraisal Guidance 115: Naltrexone for the Management of Opioid Dependence (Jan 2007)
- Drug Misuse: Psychosocial Interventions NICE Clinical Guideline 51 (Jul 2007)
- Drug Misuse: Opioid Detoxification NICE Clinical Guideline 52 (Jul 2007)
- Community-Based Interventions to Reduce Substance Misuse Among Vulnerable & Disadvantaged Children & Young People: NICE Public Health Intervention Guidance 4 (Mar 2007)
- Tools to Support the Implementation of NICE Guidance
- Bulletin Board
- In this Issue
- Editorial
- What is the Place of In-Patient Treatment for Drug & Alcohol Problems?
- Department of Health & NICE Guidance Update
- Getting HIV Testing Into General Practice: Opportunistic Opportunities for Improving Testing
- Infective Endocarditis in IV Drug Users
- North East Lincolnshire Drug Intervention Programme
- Alcohol & Opioids - A Difficult & Neglected Problem?
- Substance Misuse & Pregnancy - An Appraisal of Local Maternity Service Guidelines
- Child Care Legislation Implications for Practice
- Dr Fixit's Advice - In-Patient Drug Detoxification
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Caring for Cannabis Users
- Bulletin Board
- In this Issue
- Editorial
- Hepatitis C Guidance Launched
- Snowballing: Combined Heroin & Crack Injection
- The Adelaide Street NES
- Analysis of SMMGP Membership Contingency Management Consultation
- It's Brighton for 2008!
- RCGP Substance Misuse Conference Consensus Statement
- SMMGP Network Reader Survey
- Hidden Harm 4 Years On
- Working with Substance Misusers
- Narcotics Anonymous - Demystified
- Drug Misuse & Dependence - Guidelines on Clinical Management: Update 2007
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Over-the-Counter Medication
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Hepatitis C Treatment
- Bulletin Board
- In this Issue
- Editorial
- Sex Workers
- Consultants, Who Needs 'Em?
- Abstinence - Treatment, Philosophy, Methods
- Detoxification
- Improving Services for Substance Misuse
- NICE Publications
- Building Bridges with the Criminal Justice System
- Diversion - How Much Do We Really Know?
- Viewpoint - Tolerance Testing Troubles
- Suboxone - So What's New?
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Sex Workers Who Use Drugs
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Drugs Intervention Programme (DIP)
- Bulletin Board
- Welcome
- Abstinence - Treatment, Philosophy & Methods
- Editorial: SMMGP Funding Reduction - New Times
- Care Planning in Primary Care ...Simple?
- 'Shooting Up'
- Good News for Hepatitis C Treatment
- China Needle Exchange News
- Working With Drug Users Who Are Injected By Other People
- Practice Based Commissioning (PBC)
- Heresy, Dogma & the Inquisition
- Drink Diary
- Holiday Script Law Change - Home Office
- Methadone & Exercise
- Become an SMMGP Member - Make a Difference!
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Being Drug & Alcohol Free
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Alcohol Detoxification
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Shift Work
- Bulletin Board
- Network Reader Survey - Tell Us What You Think
- Welcome
- Conference News
- 2006 Conference Consensus Statement
- Poly Drug Use: Taking it On in UK General Practice
- Non-Medical Prescribing - One Year On
- Setting Up a Drug Service in Prison
- Reader's Views: The GPwSI - Redefined out of existence!?
- Tribute to Michael Varnam
- The Virtue of Ignorance
- Clinical Governance & Change
- Effective Coordination of Shared Care
- Drug Consumption Rooms?
- Overloaded: A Quick Guide to Substance Misuse Sources
- Heresy, Dogma & the Inquisition
- Sleep Management & Methadone
- Models of Care for Alcohol Misusers (MOCAM) at Last!
- Dr Fixit on Using Clinical Governance to Bring About Change with GP Under-Dosing
- Dr Fixit on an HIV Positive Result
- Bulletin Board
- Welcome
- Principles of Pain Treatment in the Context of Substance Use
- Update on HIV Epidemiology & Treatment
- The Past, Present & Future of the GP with Special Interest (GPwSI)
- Asking No Questions About Hidden Harm
- Parent Foremost - Or Drug User (With a Child in Tow)?
- SCAN - What It Is, What It Does & How We Can Work Together
- Addicted Doctors
- First Contact: A New Consultation Model for GPs Engaged in 'Shared Care'
- Practice Based Commissioning - Another Tool for Improving Primary Care Substance Misuse Services
- Dr Fixit's Advice - HIV Screening
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Pain Management When on Methadone Maintenance Treatment
- Bulletin Board
- Welcome
- Rationale for the Use of Methadone
- Dealing with Weights & Measures
- Latest on the Drug Problem Across Europe
- Addiction Treatment in Prison
- Shared Care Monitoring Groups
- Methadone & Driving
- Safer Management of Controlled Drugs: Early Action
- Integrated Care & Partnership Working - Getting it Right
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Joint Working
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Coming Off Supervised Consumption
- The Impact of 'Respect' on Substance Misusers
- A Time of Change - A Big Thanks to Our GP Leads
- Prescribing News
- RCGP News
- Bulletin Board
- Welcome
- Substance Misuse in Pregnancy
- The Effectiveness Strategy
- Substitute Prescribing in Primary Care From a Global Perspective
- Connecting Drug Users to Health
- Shared Care Coordination - How to Make Shared Care Schemes Work
- Special Interest Masterclass Mental Health & Crack Use
- Starting From Scratch - Waltham Forest Primary Care Trust (PCT) Shared Care Service
- Nurse Prescribing Within a Primary Care Setting
- What Does the New Pharmacy Contract Mean for Patients & GP's?
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Assessment in Primary Care
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Getting Out of Prison
- Bulletin Board
- SMMGP 10 Years On Looking - Looking Forward Back
- The Needs of Children Who Live with Parents Who are Problem Drug Users
- Flexibility & Scrutiny in the Government Response to Shipman 4
- Harm Reduction & Drug Treatment: A Global Perspective
- Mind Your Manners - Treating Patients Well
- An Unrepentant & Memorable Patient
- A Sentimental & No Doubt Slightly Flawed Historical Snapshot of GP Involvement in the Care of Drug Users
- Review of Key New Information on Hepatitis C
- Guidance For Hepatitis A & B Vaccination of Drug Users in Primary Care & Criteria for Audit
- Is Your Area Not Providing Appropriate Hepatitis C Treatment?
- Review of Recent Papers, Articles & Reports
- Pharmacy Fix - At Last, Instalment Prescribing of Diazepam in England!
- Pharmacy Fix - Clarification of Pharmacy Obligations to Dispense
- Pharmacy Fix - Update on Crushing Buprenorphine
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Childcare
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Hepatitis C
- Bulletin Board
- News Digest - New Bill Means More Coercive Treatment
- News Digest - RCGP Part 1 Certificate in the Management of Drug Misuse
- News Digest - Ian Smith Posthumously Receives the Tom Waller Award
- The Oral Effects of Methadone Use
- Working with Cocaine & Crack Users in Primary Care
- Update on Part 1 to the RCGP Certificate in the Management of Drug Misuse
- GP Appraisal - What on Earth is it Anyway?
- Drug Testing in the Workplace
- The ABC of Alcohol
- Pharmacy Fix - Team Working with a Pharmacist
- Dr Fixit's Advice - How Tough Should I Be on Missed Appointments & Missed Pharmacy Pickups?
- Dr Fixit's Advice - On Cocaine Use with Methadone
- Bulletin Board
- News Digest - Cannabis Anyone?
- News Digest - Tackling Drugs Saves Lives
- News Digest - Audit Commission Report
- News Digest - Hep B &C Testing
- News Digest - Comorbidity on the Up
- News Digest - The Importance of Retention in Treatment
- New GP Contract - What You Think
- News Digest - Latest Shipman Inquiry Recommends Changes to Prescribing Practices
- News Digest - SMMGP Website a Hit
- News Digest - Drug Certificate Proves Popular with GPs
- News Digest - RCGP Launch Toolkit for Practitioners Working with Drug Users
- News Digest - NICE: Next Wave Take on Methadone & Buprenorphine
- Under Contract - How Practices are Dealing with the nGMS Contract
- What is Treatment?
- What We Want from Treatment from Our GPs
- Buprenorphine Maintenance Prescribing - The Evidence Speaks for Itself
- Pharmacy Fix - Should Buprenorphine Tablets be Crushed?
- Pharmacy Fix - How Can I Join the Local Shared Care Scheme?
- PharMAG & PharMAGazine
- Spotlight on Adfam - Listening to the Families of Substance Users
- Cultural Considerations - Improving Community Involvement
- Review of Recent Papers, Articles & Reports
- Dr Fixit's Advice - How Can I Help this Young Asian Heroin Smoker?
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Is Buprenorphine Maintenance Right for My Patient?
- Bulletin Board
- Primary Care Treatment Target Met
- Vexed, Perplexed or Delighted... Your Views on the New GMS Contract
- News About the RCGP Certificate in the Management of Drug Misuse, Part 1
- Initial Overview of the Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy for England
- Management of Dual Diagnosis Patients in Primary Care
- Dual Diagnosis in the Context of Mild to Moderate Mental Health Problems
- User Involvement - What We Need to Do
- New Contracts - Pharmacy View
- Why Should Opiate Maintenance Take Place in Primary Care?
- Review of Recent Papers, Articles & Reports
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Methadone Maintenance
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Dual Diagnosis
- Bulletin Board
- Hot Topics - Alcohol & the New GMS Contract
- Hot Topics - Citizens Say UK Drug Policy is Based on Ignorance
- Hot Topics - Surprise Change in Benzodiazepine Prescribing
- Hot Topics - Tetanus Alert
- Methadone Maintenance Prescribing - How to Get the Best Results
- Substance Misuse Services in Gateshead
- Involving Drug Users - The Work of the Alliance (Formerly the Methadone Alliance)
- Drug Users Now Actively Involved in the RCGP Certificate Course
- Why Such Contrasts Between Different DTTO Schemes? A Time for Re-evaluation?
- Review of Recent Papers, Articles & Reports
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Getting the Dose Right
- Dr Fixit's Advice - DTTOs & Treatment Continuity
- Bulletin Board
- Hot Topics - Global Political Commitment & Joined Up Strategies on HIV/AIDS & Injecting Drug Use are Vital, Says the Warsaw Declaration
- Hot Topics - Drug-Related Deaths Up 5% from 2002-2003
- Hot Topics - Important Change in Law Makes Providing Clean Equipment Legal But Who is Going to Fund This?
- Hot Topics - Hepatitis C Treatment Guidelines
- Obituary
- What Does the New GMS Contract Mean for Patients & GPs?
- GP Lead Appointed to the New NTA Clinical Team
- Substance Misuse Services in Gateshead - A GP's Perspective
- Naltrexone Tablets or Implants? A pathway Out of Addiction?
- Druglink Magazine - Subscribe Online
- The Tom Waller Harm Reduction Award
- Review of Recent Papers, Articles & Reports
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Naltrexone Following Detoxification
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Going on Holiday
- Bulletin Board
- Hot Topics - Hidden Harm: Responding to the Needs of Children of Problem Drug Users
- Viewpoint - A Response to the Heroin Guidance Injectable Heroin (& Injectable Methadone): Potential Roles in Drug Treatment
- NTORS - Choose Maintenance or Detoxification, Not 'Reduction'
- Consultation & User Representation - Designing Services Users Want
- Buprenorphine in Primary Care: Summary
- Viewpoint - Should GPs be Involved in Criminal Justice Work?
- Viewpoint - What Makes For Good Pharmacy Involvement
- Classics Revisited - Heroin Addiction and Drug Policy, The British System
- Review of Recent Papers, Articles & Reports
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Alcohol Relapse
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Buprenorphine For Detox
- Call For Papers for Primary Care Peer Review Journal - Special Edition
- Bulletin Board
- Hot Topics - RCGP Regional Clinical GP Leads
- Hot Topics - New Guidance for GPwSIs
- Titration: Can We Make It Work In Practice?
- 8th National RCGP Conference: Management Of Drug Users In Primary Care
- Alcohol - What Would Be the Ideal Clinical Care for a Patient Entering a Community Alcohol Detox Facility?
- GPs Can't Do Everything - Why I Don't Do It
- A Generalist by Character & Inclination - Why I Do It
- Re-launch of the Drug Strategy
- Classics Revisited - Street Drugs - The Facts Explained, The Myths Exploded
- Review of Recent Papers, Articles & Reports
- Amphetamine
- Prenatal Exposure to Ecstasy & Other Recreational Drugs - Participants Needed
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Working on Amphetamine
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Pressure to Prescribe
- Bulletin Board
- Hot Topics - Section 8
- View Point - Home Office Consultation on Paraphernalia
- The Future of the RCGP Certificate & GP Training
- Starting Methadone Safely
- Binge Drinking - Risky Behaviour?
- The RCGP Certificate - Changing Treatment Changing Attitudes
- What's the Crack?
- Crack Guidance
- Crack Training for Primary Care
- Classics Revisited - Motivational Interviewing, Preparing People for Change
- Review of Recent Papers, Articles & Reports
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Blood Borne Viruses Screening & Vaccination for Injecting Drug Users
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Driving & Methadone
- Bulletin Board
- Hot Topics - Hepatitis C Strategy for England
- Primary Care Responds to the Challenge
- The Audit Commission Report 2002
- Urine Screening - The Benefits & Limitations
- Alcohol - What is a Brief Intervention?
- Specialists, GPs with Special Interest (GPsWI), & GPs Working as Specialists
- Up to Speed on Clubbers' Health?
- Classics Revisited - Methadone Maintenance Treatment & Other Opioid Replacement Therapies
- Review of Recent Papers, Articles & Reports
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Under-Dosing
- Bulletin Board
- Hot Topics - The French connection - Substitute Prescribing & Reduction in Deaths & Crime
- Hot Topics - Heroin Prescribing - Will This Affect GPs?
- Hot Topics - Your Contract Your Future, Explanatory Notes from the GPC April 2002
- SMMGP Newsletter Re-launch
- Young People - Determining Consent for Drug Treatment to Minors
- The Audit Commission Report February 2002
- Alcohol: The AUDIT - Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test
- A GP's Reflections On the Value of Long-Term Methadone Prescribing/Methadone Maintenance
- A GP's Reflections On the Value of Detoxification from Opiates
- Classics Revisited - The Methadone Briefing
- Review of Recent Papers, Articles & Reports
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Methadone & Palliative Care
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Hepatitis C
- Research Bulletin
- Hot Topics - Government Plan to Reduce Drug Related Deaths
- Hot Topics - UK Still Tops Drugs League
- Primary Care Specialist Providers - The Future of the NHS?
- Example Job Description/Discussion Paper GP with Special Interest (GPwSI)
- Shared Care Monitoring Groups Update
- Introducing the National Treatment Agency (NTA)
- SMMGP Recent Paper and Article Review
- "Working with Substance Misusers in Primary Care" - A National Conference
- The Impact of Prohibition on Treatment - Does Our Policy Work?
- Smile Box
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Crack Cocaine
- Correction
- New SMMGP Online Discussion Forums
- Royal College of General Practitioners Conference: Government Drugs Policy & Training - The New Agenda for Primary Care
- Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Certificate in the Management of Drug Misuse in Primary Care
- General Practitioner with a Special Interest (GPWsi) or Specialised Generalist?
- SMMGP Planned Resources to Support RCGP Certificate
- SMMGP Primary Care Support Project Update
- GP Reimbursement Schemes
- The Berkshire 4 Way Agreement on Shared Care for Opiate Dependent Patients
- Monitoring of Drug Misuse Treatment in General Practice
- News Update
- SMMGP Recent Paper & Article Review
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Opiate Detoxification
- Funding & Planning Drive to Support Shared Care & Drug Misuse Services in 2001
- Shared Care Monitoring Groups (SCMGs)
- 6th National Conference - Managing Drug Users in General Practice
- How do Services Measure Up to Standards Set in the Clinical Guidelines?
- Working with 'Dual Diagnosis' in a Substance Misuse Team
- Is Dual Diagnosis a Red Herring?
- GP Specialist & GP Liaison Team in a Specialist Drug Service
- Discussion - Maintennance Prescribing Dose
- Evolution of PCG 'Specialist Clinics' - A Bridge to Shared Care?
- Primary Care Group Locality Substance Misuse & Prescribing Clinics Through Local Development Scheme Funding
- Key points on Local Development Schemes
- The Experience of Working with Drug Users as Patients
- Changes in FP10 Prescribing Forms Will Allow for Instalment Prescribing of Buprenorphine
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Volatile Substance Abuse
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Pregnancy & Prescribing Methadone
- Next Newsletter
- The UK Harm Reduction Alliance (UKHRA)
- Department of Health Funding for National Primary Care Training Enhancing the Stature of Substance Misuse Management in Primary Care
- Academic Partner Wanted by RCGP
- RCGP Committed to Enhancing the Stature of Primary Care in Working with Substance Misuse
- Let's Debate a Syllabus for the National Specialised Generalist Training
- An All Encompassing Substance Misuse Syllabus - Beyond an 'Opiate Fog'
- Give Your Views on Primary Care Training & Accreditation
- 'Nurse Prescribing' for Controlled Drugs Pilot
- Is UK Harm Reduction Under Threat?
- Drug Treatment & Testing Orders & 'The Strategy' May Be Working
- Motivational Interviewing
- What is the National Treatment Agency?
- Don't Let the Coming of the NTA Cause a Local 'Planning Blight'
- Primary Care Advisory Service from SMMGP
- Sad News
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Benzodiazepines
- Opportunities & Threats to the Management of Drug Users in Primary Care
- Drugs Tsar Commitment to Primary Care at RCGP Conference
- RCGP Conference Consensus Statement
- Supervised Consumption - A Balanced Approach Supporting & Respecting Patients
- Comprehensive Literature Review & Bibliography: Treatments for Opiate Users in a Primary Care Setting
- Hepatitis C
- Action on Hepatitis C
- Working with Hepatitis C in Primary Care - The St. Martin's Practice Experience
- Therapeutic Input Needed with Prescribing in Primary Care
- Managing Substance Misuse Patients in the Primary Care Setting
- Alcohol - Guidelines for Primary Care
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Alternatives to Methadone
- Dihydrocodeine - DF118
- RCT of Dihydrocodeine & Methadone Treatments of Opiate Dependence
- Buprenorphine Substitution Therapy for Opiate Dependency
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Urinalysis
- Will Primary Care Commission Community Drug Services?
- Is Alcohol a Problem We Should Deal with in Primary Care?
- Primary Care Led Development of Shared Care for Drug Users
- From Deputising to Shared Care
- Supervised Consumption?
- Supervised Consumption - The Wirral Drug Service
- Issues for Community Nurses in Substance Misuse Provision
- Shared Care - 'Managing the Gap' or 'Shifted Outpatients'?
- Alternative Treatments for Opiate Dependence
- Buprenorphine Protocol - Wakefield & Pontefract PCG Prescribing Service
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Relapse
- 'Managing Drug Users in General Practice' Conference 2000, May 10th & 11th in Leeds
- RCGP & GPC Policy Statement on Care of Substance Abusers
- Towards a Primary Care Network
- DOH Discussions with Primary Care on the Drug Misuse & Dependence Guidelines
- New Flexibility & Funding for Primary Care
- Criminal Justice Interventions
- Release
- Viewpoint
- Amphetamine Problem
- Dr Fixit's Advice - A Friday Night Challenge
- Dr Fixit's Advice - Dihydrocodeine Detoxification?
- Primary Care Training - SCODA
- Research Contacts
- The New Department of Health Clinical Guidelines for Drug Misuse & Dependence: Why Are They Important?
- The 4th National Conference: Management of Drugs Users in General Practice
- Starting of the GP Network
- 4th National Conference: Management of Drugs Users in General Practice
- Drug Misuse & Dependence - Guidelines on Clinical Management
- High Dose Buprenorphine - What is its Role in Substitute Prescribing for Opiate Users?
- A Review of Shared Care Protocols for the Treatment of Problem Drug Use in England, Scotland & Wales
- Hepatitis C Infection, Prevention, Treatment & Injecting Drug Users - Shunned by the International Medical Community?
- Black Poppy - A Publication by Drug Users for Drug Users
- Reviewing Benzodiazepine Prescribing in General Practice
- 4th National Conference: Management of Drugs Users in General Practice
- Survey of Drug Agency Involvement in Pregnancy Liaison Services
- 'What's the Crack' for Professionals & Users
- Drug Warnings
- The Case for Residential Treatment
- New Heroin Outbreaks Amongst Young People in England & Wales
- 4th National Conference: Management of Drugs Users in General Practice
- National Conference: Managing Drug Users in General Practice
- Review Article on Hepatitis C - Why it Must Stay on the Agenda
- Network
- Motivational Interviewing
- Important Notice
- Conference Report: 'Drug-Users: Scapegoats or Activists?'
- Positive About Drugs: The Essential Guide for HIV+ Gay Men Who Use Drugs
- Stop Press
- Treatment Expectations for Drug Users
- Research Network in General Practice & Primary Care Examining the Care & Management of Drug Users
- Drug Users are Being Scapegoated
- Care of Drug Users in General Practice - A Harm-Minimization Approach
- Second National Conference on Managing Drug Users in General Practice
- Report: 8th International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm
- Harm Reduction
- Injectables (Replies From Article in Newsletter No 4)
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