Track Patients Addicted to Prescription Drugs, Home Affairs Committee Tells GPs

Track patients addicted to prescription drugs, home affairs committee tells GPs
The Commons home affairs committee says that the scale of addiction to prescription drugs in Britain is far greater than those who are in treatment programmes for illegal drugs. But the MPs say in a report published on Friday that there is an urgent …
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MPs urge more doctor/pharmacist prosecutions over Rx drug abuse
They also call on the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) to produce guidance for GPs who treat addiction to prescription drugs, and this should require all cases to be recorded on the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System in order to …
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Price of Addiction: New opioid treatment can work wonders but there are limits …
Methadone is the best-known treatment for managing opioid addiction, both to heroin and prescription painkillers. But it's not the only one or even the most effective for many addicts. Another drug therapy — buprenorphine, which goes under the brand …
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