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One-stop shop for dual diagnosis

01 October 2013

Mental Health Practice

Opinion

AS READERS of Mental Health Practice will know, mental health issues and substance misuse often go hand in hand. The Department of Health (DH) estimates that around...

The cycle of misuse

28 May 2014

Nursing Standard

Reflections

The recent Press Association investigation into child substance addiction in the UK has revealed instances of children as young as four being referred to specialist...

Listen to the experts

23 January 2013

Nursing Standard

Opinion

The government’s 2010 drug strategy made a clear commitment to take ‘an evidence-based approach’ to drug treatment services.

Commissioning changes may lead to a leadership vacuum

24 July 2013

Nursing Standard

Letter

Now that the National Treatment Agency has been subsumed into Public Health England, as chair of Westminster Drug Project I fear there will be a leadership vacuum.

Drug treatment services need to adapt to changing needs of users

28 November 2012

Nursing Standard

Letter

According to the DrugScope annual report, some drug users are now injecting the ‘party drug’ mephedrone up to 20 times a day.