Glasgow has an innovative scheme for encouraging GPs to manage drug misusers

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EDITOR,—The Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs has concluded that general practitioners should participate more in the care of drug misusers.1 Michael Farrell and colleagues express pessimism about this occurring owing to general practitioners' resistance to prescribing opiate substitutes,2 though they cite a report showing that clinics for such prescribing may be operated successfully in general practice.3 We report an innovative method of more widely implementing this strategy. …