Sara McGrail - 11 Aug 2010
Sara has worked across the field of health and social care working mainly in substance use (drugs and alcohol) , sexual health and mental health. Her work has a strong community focus - and she has a good background in the type of collaborative planning that is now such a feature of local and regional partnership working.


A question of harm

So here we are, it's 9am on a Thursday morning and you're a heroin user waking up in Scotland.  It's cold and you need a hit. You can get yourself down to the Community Drugs Team but you know you're going to be facing a 4 week wait for assessment and then another 4 weeks or maybe months until you finally get a script.  Even at the most optimistic if you're using twice a day that's a potential 112 chances between now and getting treatment that you could get infected with anthrax.  You can try and buy some methadone or some burprenorphine on the burgeoning black market for substitute drugs - but price has obviously been shooting up since the anthrax deaths. You can get together with some mates and see if you can get a car drive down into England and buy in bulk down there - but that's risky too.  or you can go out and score, take a chance and buy street gear.  And you can hope that this isn't going to be your time.  That it will be ok.
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