The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 272 No 7281 p3
3/10 January 2004

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Drug injecting centre pilot

Medically supervised injecting centres should be piloted in the UK to allow illicit drug users to inject safely in a clinical environment, say the authors of an article in this week’s BMJ. They suggest that trained staff could offer injecting advice, including advice to move away from intravenous drug use (2004;328:100).