Addiction

Medications in Drug Treatment – Tackling the Risks to Children

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This report examines cases where children have died or come to harm from ingesting Opioid Substitution Treatment (OST) medicines prescribed to help people overcome drug addiction. There have been 17 Serious Case Reviews involving the...
Adfam - Medications in drug treatment

Families, Drugs and Alcohol - Policy and Research since 1984

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The past 30 years has seen a huge amount of change in the policy, practice and politics around both families and drug/alcohol (‘substance’) use. Laws, behaviours and public perceptions have all altered substantially. As part of Adfam’s 30th...
Adfam's 30th Birthday Celebration - Families, drugs and alcohol - policy and research since 1984

Multiple Fentanyl Overdoses — New Haven, Connecticut, June 23, 2016

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Summary What is already known about this topic? Fentanyl and its analogs have been substituted for heroin and other opioids, and are usually marketed to persons seeking opioids. Because of fentanyl’s high potency compared with heroin...

Reviewing England's Drug Misuse Treatment System

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Public Health England’s recently published review reveals that the country’s drug misuse treatment system is performing well. However, there are still several areas that call for improvements. Amongst the report’s findings, notable are: 60%...
England's drug misuse treatment system