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IN RESPONSE TO ‘MARKET FORCES’
(DDN, JUNE, PAGE 14)
Bravo @KarenLTyrell in @DDNMagazine this
month. ‘...keep people alive. Be as aspiration al
as you want, but keep people alive.’
Also @Shapiroharry spot on in same
@DDNMagazinearticle when he says we
need to bring #harmreductionback into the
heart of the mainstream.
George Burton,@DoctorDimmage, by Twitter
‘By engaging with clients over a
long period and putting a support
package together that includes OST
at the right levels, clients are given
the best possible chance of success’
Dynamic outreach
Thank you for the article looking at outreach services in
Brighton (Vital Connections, DDN, June, page 6). I would like
to congratulate the team at Equinox for encouraging the
‘entrepreneurial element to being a frontline worker’. As
services increasingly implement more rigid working
practices and set protocols for their staff, it was great to
hear that their team were given the autonomy to deal with
clients as individuals and take time to build their trust.
By engaging with clients over a long period and putting a
support package together that includes OST at the right
levels, clients are given the best possible chance of success
when the time is right for them to enter rehab.
The ‘whole person’ vision with harm reduction working
alongside recovery sounded refreshingly old fashioned in
these days of targets and outcome data. Well done DDN for
sharing this and many other examples of good practice
from around the country. Keep up the good work!
Jack Bounds, by email
www.drinkanddrugsnews.com
to gauge. A single report on 3MF stated that
0.016mg was active BUT the response to
these super-potent analogues is variable
between people. Just because someone else
shoots a bag and is OK doesn’t mean it can
be presumed safe for others... even if
someone DID cut it properly.
S W Dunlevy, by Facebook
IN RESPONSE TO ‘ON BORROWED TIME’
(DDN, MAY, PAGE 6)
It's no surprise with the funding cuts. Too
many services have closed or had to reduce
what they can offer.
Helen Morris Jenkins, by Facebook Must read: @DDNMagazine May edition
pages 6&7 about the crisis in the drug and
alcohol sector. Deeply worrying.
SMMGP, @SMMGP, by Twitter
Look to the Portugal model, radical and
yet effective!
Amanda Thomas, by Facebook IN RESPONSE TO ‘ALCOHOL-RELATED DEATHS
MORE THAN 50 PER CENT HIGH ER IN
SCOTLAND’ (ONLINE NEWS STORY)
With alcohol and drug contracts being
awarded to the lowest bidders in austerity
Britain, it’s the commissioners who need to
be challenged.
It’s they who have blood on their hands
thinking that alcohol and drug work can be
done on the cheap. Deaths in service,
especially in our larger cities... are truly
staggering and alarming.
I hope deaths in service are truly
transparent... Hopefully the CQC will leave no
stone unturned in their visits... in
examination and cross-checking of GP
records of the deceased.
John Rogers, by Facebook I fear that increasing the price will yield the
same results as tobacco – smuggling be comes
widespread. What is even worse is that smug -
g led alcohol with be in the form of spirits.
Especially in the case of white spirits, the
distilled product is over 90 per cent alcohol
which is then diluted with (usually) spring
water. A 2 litre 7Up bottle full makes six x
750ml of 40 per cent vodka.
I know the above because decades ago,
Irish friends would bring in Poitín and
diluted it, as I have described.
Of course, we don’t know just how much
untaxed spirits are being produced in the
UK. I certainly remember that five people
died in an explosion in an ad hoc distillery.
S W Dunlevy, by Facebook
IN RESPONSE TO ‘MEET THE FENTANYLS’
(DDN, JUNE, PAGE 8)
Great article from @KFxNews on Fentanyls
in latest @DDNMagazine
Andy Maddison, @andyinhaler, by Twitter
It's a case of the corporations putting
wealth before human life.
Alec Binman Hallwood, by Facebook
AND FINALLY…
It’s worth noting that as no chiral synthesis
of 3MF exists and all isomers are active, it’s
most likely to be around x2800 morphine.
When it comes to these highly potent
analogues, the actual potency becomes hard
As alcohol is the cause of Britain’s biggest
drug problem, why doesn’t DDN refer to
‘alcohol and illegal drugs?’
John D Beasley, London (by post)
/DDNMagazine @DDNMagazine
www.drinkanddrugsnews.com
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