20-06-2006
Dr Chris Ford on drug use and Primary Care
Filmed at the RCGP/SMMGP conference
"Management of Drug Users in Primary Care:
Are We Delivering Effective Care in General Practice?"
Chris Ford: amongst other activities...GP, GP Adviser, Chair of The Alliance, Chair of the RCGP (Sex, Drugs and HIV Task Group). She has been on the steering group of Substance Misuse Management in General Practice (SMMGP) since its inception.
"Management of Drug Users in Primary Care:
Are We Delivering Effective Care in General Practice?"
Chris Ford: amongst other activities...GP, GP Adviser, Chair of The Alliance, Chair of the RCGP (Sex, Drugs and HIV Task Group). She has been on the steering group of Substance Misuse Management in General Practice (SMMGP) since its inception.
Alcopops Poster (K1)
The poster and postcards feature information on: drinking, driving and overcrowding cars; advertising; alcohol content; drinking to appear hard, risky situations; drinking alone and helping friends. Space is provided for local information.
Who do they tell? (A46)
8 page booklet detailing the records that are kept by drug services about their clients and in what circumstances information is shared. Includes information about the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System and the Treatments Outcome Profile.
Quality of Life and Addiction Treatment
Would you rather be feeling and functioning well and having the odd glass of wine or snort of cocaine or abstinent with a poor social life and feeling bad? For most alcohol or drug treatment outcome studies, it's no contest. Rarely do these forefront what matters most to the patient their quality of life as they define it.
Smoking heroin as addictive as injecting?
By all means publicise the dangers of heroin, by all means tell people that smoking often leads to injection. But smoking heroin is safer than injecting it - to say otherwise is dangerous and could lead to more deaths