The University of Aberdeen and NHS Health Scotland have launched a study to identify facilitators and barriers for General Practitioners to engage effectively with the naloxone programme in Scotland.
The aim of this report is to take a fresh look at the city’s response to the problems associated with drug markets and drug use, and to suggest ways in which the local agencies could be more successful in reducing the drug related problems.
The report states that criminalization and restriction of access to health care constitutes abusive treatment based on unjustified discrimination solely related to health status.
During the 1980s, Spain had very strict laws limiting access to opioid agonist maintenance treatment (OAMT). Legal changes facilitated the expansion of OAMT, and the annual incidence of HIV infection decreased from 6200 a year of early 90 to 690 in 2010.
This is the first of the three annual work programmes required to implement the activities and commitments set out in the EMCDDA’s new strategy for the 2013–15 period.
This study ensued from clinical observations based on spontaneous accounts by crack abusers undergoing their first psychiatric assessment, where they reported using cannabis in an attempt to ease their own withdrawal symptoms.