Supervised administration of methadone by pharmacists
- 28 May 1994
- Vol. 308 (6941) , 1438
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.308.6941.1438
Abstract
EDITOR, - The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs recently concluded that structured methadone maintenance programmes should be developed throughout Britain.1 Putting this recommendation into practice is not free from controversy. In the debate on the place of prescribing for drug misusers a criticism commonly made concerns “street leakage,” whereby some or all of the prescribed drug is diverted b]y various means from the patient for whom it is intended towards illicit users.2 In an attempt to minimise the …Keywords
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