The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 272 No 7292 p381-382
27 March 2004

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Community pharmacy

Perplexed with choice of sugar-free methadone to tackle obesity

From Mr S. Abramson, MRPharmS

With regard to Hemant Patel’s observations on obesity (PJ, 20 March 2004, p348), I am perplexed by his choice of example.

Maybe there is something in the water down south, or due to London weighting, addicts can afford to eat a well-balanced diet as well as taking their methadone and heroin. From my experience up north, I should think Dr Atkins would turn in his (rather large) grave at the sight of the skeletal figures of the majority of the addicts to whom I dispense.

Of course the wan smiles of many of them do reflect the other problem of syrup, something I felt the “heroin chic” culture of 1990s supermodels never quite managed to emulate.

Steven Abramson
St Helens, Merseyside

Obese methadone patients?

From Miss E. Harrop, MRPharmS

With regard to Hemant Patel’s plea for “diet methadone” to be made available to tackle obesity (PJ, 20 March 2004, p348), I do not know what the population is like in his local area, but I have yet to meet an obese methadone patient.

Elaine Harrop
Leicester

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