Injectable methadone prescribing in the United Kingdom - Current practice and future policy guidelines

Substance Use and Misuse

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1709-1721

  Sarfraz, Aamer ^a   Alcorn, Ronald James ^b  

^a Stone House Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drug misuser; Injectable opiates; Methadone treatment; National Health Service (NHS); Prescribing policy

Indexed keywords

METHADONE; OPIATE AGONIST;

CLINICAL PRACTICE; DRUG LEGISLATION; DRUG MISUSE; HUMAN; INJECTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; OPIATE ADDICTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0032826986     PISSN: 10826084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10826089909039423     Document Type: Review

References (33)

1. ADVISORY COUNCIL ON THE MISUSE OF DRUGS (ACMD) (1988). AIDS and Drug Misuser Report, Part I. London: HMSO.
2. ADVISORY COUNCIL ON THE MISUSE OF DRUGS (ACMD) (1989). AIDS and Drug Misuse Report, Part II. London: HMSO.
3. ADVISORY COUNCIL ON THE MISUSE OF DRUGS (1993). AIDS and Drug Misuse Report. London: HMSO.
4. BALL, J. C., and ROSS, A. (1991). The Effectiveness of Methadone Maintenance Treatment. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag.
5. BATES, M., and PEMBERTON, D. (1996). The effects of methadone prescribing in a clinic setting on the criminal activity of drug use. Scott. Med. J. 41(6): 173-175.
6. BATTERSBY, M., FARRELL, M., et al. (1992). "Horse Trading": Prescribing injectable opiates to opiate addicts. A descriptive study. Drugs Alcohol Rev. II: 35-42.
7. BERTSCHY, G. (1995). Methadone maintenance treatment: An update (Review). Eur. Arch. Psychiatry Neurosci. 245(2): 114-124.
8. BEWLEY, T. H. (1975). Evaluation of addiction treatment in England. In H. Bostrom, T. Larsson, and N. Ljungstedt) (Eds.), Drug Dependence: Treatment and Treatment Evaluation (pp. 275-286). Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell.
9. BRAIN REPORT (INTER-DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE ON DRUG ADDICTION) (1965). Drug Addiction - 2nd Report. London: HMSO.
10. DEGLON, J. J. (1995). Clinical aspects and evaluation of methadone substitution therapy. Therapie 50(6): 537-542 (in French).
11. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH-TASK FORCE REVIEW (1996). An Independent Review of Drug Treatment Services in England. London: DOH.
12. FERNER, R. E. (1996). Prescribing licensed medication for unlicensed indications. Prescr. J. 36(2): 73-78).
13. GHODSE, H. (1995). Drugs and Addictive Behaviour - A Guide to Treatment, 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell Science.
14. HAMILTON, M. (1967). Development of a rating scale for primary depressive illness. Br. J. Soc. Clin. Psychol. 6: 278-296.
15. HARTNOLL, R. L., MITCHESON, M., BATTERSBY, A., et al. (1980). Evaluation of heroin maintenance in controlled trial. Arch. Gen. Psychiatry 37: 877-884.
16. JAFFE, J. (1983). Methadone maintenance: Exportable programme of alien technology? In Drug Use and Misuse - Cultural Perspectives. London: Croom Helm Ltd.
17. KANE, H. H. (1880). The Hypodermic Injection of Morphia. New York, NY: Chas L. Birmingham & Co.
18. MINISTRY OF HEALTH. REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE ON MORPHINE AND HEROIN ADDICTION (ROLLESTON REPORT) (1926). London: HMSO.
19. MITCHESON, M. (1996). Drug clinics in 1970's. In Heroin Addiction and British Policy: The British System (pp. 178-179). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
20. NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE (1990). National Drug and Alcoholism Treatment Unit Survey (NDATUS) (Publication 91-1729). Rockville, MD: DHSS.
21. NORTH WEST THAMES REGIONAL PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICE (1993). Supply of Methadone within NWT.
22. NUTT, D. J. (1995). Addiction: Brain mechanisms and treatment implications. Lancet 347: 31-36.
23. PRESCRIBING POLICIES FOR DRUG USERS IN THE MERSEY REGION (1980). Liverpool: Drug and HIV Monitoring Unit.
24. SCOTTISH DRUGS FORUM (1991). Policy Statement on Prescribing to People with Drug Problems. Glasgow: SDF.
25. SMART, C. (1984). Social policy and drug addiction: A critical study of policy development. Br. J. Addict. 79: 31-39.
26. STIMPSON, J. V. (1995). AIDS and injecting drug use in the UK 1987-1993: The policy response and the prevention of the epidemic. Soc. Sci. Med. 41(5): 699-716.
27. STITZER, M. L., and STIGGINS, S. T. (1995). Behavioural treatment of drug and alcohol abuse. In Psychopharmacology, The Fourth Generation of Progress. New York, NY: Raven Press.
28. STRANG, J. (1989). "The British System": Past, present and future. Int. Rev. Psychiatry 1: 109-120.
29. STRANG, J. (1990). The rules of prescribing. In AIDS and Drug Misuse - The Challenge for Policy and Practice in the 1990s (pp. 142-152). London: Routledge.
30. STRANG, J., and SHERIDAN, J. (1997). Heroin prescribing in the "British System" of the mid 1990's: Data from the 1995 national survey of community pharmacies in England and Wales. Drug Alcohol Rev. 16: 7-16.
31. STRANG, J., SHERIDAN, J., and BARBER, N. (1996). Prescribing injectable and oral methadone to opiate addicts: Results from the 1995 national postal survey of community pharmacies in England and Wales. Br. Med. J. 313: 270-272.
32. SUTTON, M., and MAYNARD, A. (1993). Are drug policies based on "fake statistics?" Addiction 88: 455-458.
33. UCHTENHAGEN, A., GUTZWILLER, F., DOBLER-MIKOLA, A., and STEFFEN, T. (1997). Programme for a medical prescription of narcotics. A synthesis of results. Eur. Addict. Res. 3: 160-163.