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An
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Leading
Articles
Reducing medication errors
PSNC's dream team
Themed issue
Broad Spectrum
Treating
drug-dependent patients...
Intravenous
drug misusers...
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to the Editor
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Clinical
Pharmacy
The Society
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Law and Ethics Bulletin
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Special features
Recent
developments in treating opiate misuse
Providing methadone services
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120K)
Articles
Shared care for opiate substance misusers in Berkshire
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120K)
Original papers
Pharmacy needle exchange
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120K)
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Front Cover Picture
Our front cover picture introduces this special issue
which contains various features and articles on how pharmacists can tackle
drugs misuse.
Opiate misuse
Clare Bellingham examines recent developments in treating opiate misuse
(p541).
Methadone services
Case studies illustrating how to deal with different types of drugs misuser
in a community pharmacy setting form the substance of an article on providing
methadone services.
Shared care in Berkshire
The Berkshire four-way agreement is a shared care scheme operating between
the methadone patient, the drugs misuse key worker, the general practitioner
and the pharmacist.
Needle exchange
Whether community pharmacists and drugs misuse patients have matching
perceptions of pharmacy-based needle exchange has been examined by London
researchers.
Broad Spectrum
Broad Spectrum articles look at the prescribing of Controlled Drugs and
improving harm reduction in drug misusers (p536
and p537).
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