Home Search
hepatitis - search results
Search results are sorted by relevance, please use the links in the sidebar to filter your search.
Letters
[…] others and I have been doing some misbehaving over the past week, and we all need to do more! Firstly there was the first European Conference on Hepatitis C and Injecting Drug Use, which was packed full of people with passion and commitment fighting to improve access to HCV and OST. People put themselves […]
DDN050711
[…] to 12. Support | User magazines www.drinkanddrugs.net 12 | drinkanddrugsnews | 11 July 2005 Doseon the internet. He put stories from the site into his newly created Heroin Herald and sent them to ‘places to do with ser vice users’ from a director y of south east Wales. These early editions were all about getting information out, particularly about Hepatitis C – ‘because it wassuch an epidemic. I found stuff that I didn’t know, so I knew other users didn’t know it – and they needed to.’ There was no concept of getting a response from readers at this stage, says David. That came later, when he star ted coming across feedback. ‘I used to send it to the psychiatric hospital where people used to go for detox. I thought they would probably rip it up, but I was speaking to one of the nurses and he said "is it you who writes that? It’s brilliant, it goes round the wards and they were really impressed with it".’ Soon after, Inroads (an open When Colin Stewart-Tribe made contact with the Drugs and Homeless Initiative (DHI) in Bath, hehad hit rock bottom. In and out of recover […]
Back to ‘Brilliant Basics’ for Change Grow Live with a HIT Harm Reduction Partnership
[…] design, development and delivery of services. The training is just one part of Change Grow Lives wider harm reduction strategy that also encompasses the micro elimination of Hepatitis C, increasing access to structured treatment, enhanced outreach work, continued focus on optimised dosing and improving the coverage and quality of needle and syringe programmes. DDN […]
DDN1711
[…] the job.’ Liverpool is estimated to have around 8,000 heroin and crack cocaine users, with half of the city’s injecting drug users thought to be infected with hepatitis C. ‘There was no provision of its kind in the whole of Liverpool before we launched – a structured regime with a completely drug and alcohol-free […]
‘Millions’ of children exposed to World Cup alcohol marketing
[…] cause of death that continues to rise in England while falling in other European countries, with 90 per cent of cases caused by either alcohol, obesity or hepatitis B and C. One in ten people in England who die in their 40s now die of liver disease, while Alcohol Concern’s updated ‘map of alcohol […]
Met seizes 150,000 nitazene tablets
[…] advice on nitazenes. (News, January 2023): Fentanyl behind 80% increase in New York’s overdose deaths Search the DDN archive for more on nitazenes, fentanyl and synthetic opioids. Search some commonly used tags ACMD Alcohol cannabis commissioning covid-19 criminal justice drug-related deaths drug policy drug related death gambling harm reduction hepatitis C homelessness mental health Naloxone OST overdose PHE prison public health nitazenes Recovery Residential Drug Treatment Scotland smoking Stigma young people dark web
Opiates and cocaine ‘bigger global health threat than ever’
[…] estimated 1,410 tons. The number of people worldwide who inject drugs now stands at around 10.6m, says the document, with more than half of them living with hepatitis C and one in eight living with HIV. The world drug situation now presents ‘multiple challenges on multiple fronts’, says the agency, with pharmaceutically produced opioids […]
The Forward Trust expands its reach in Southend, Humberside and London
[…] to each person’s needs, so will look slightly different for everyone. Interventions on offer include: one-to-one and group support; health checks and testing for blood-borne viruses, including Hepatitis C; help to detox; prescribed medication (where appropriate and following a medical assessment), naloxone dispensing and needle exchange; support from peers who have been through similar […]
The end, my friend
[…] chronological age. So the likely cause of death for those in treatment has moved from overdose to chronic illness, with COPD, cancers and end-stage liver disease from hepatitis C now commonly listed on death certificates. I am as keen as anyone to promote recovery in the form of long-term abstinence, but also feel we […]
National forum for action
[…] West Midlands force is planning to share the results nationally to help build the evidence base. Next up was Stuart Smith, director of community services for the Hepatitis C Trust. He spoke about the move towards elimination of the virus and the importance of NSP and harm reduction services in achieving this. ‘Unless we […]
DDN 050516
[…] is about running inpatient detoxification for high-risk clients and providing highly skilled psychological inter ventions. There’s no suggestion that primar y care should manage combination therapy for hepatitis C virus. There are also complex social needs, eg homelessness, which it would be impractical to respond to in conventional primary care. And what about sitting […]
An ever-decreasing share?
[…] from their drug use but as an ageing cohort with an array of physical and mental health problems. Many of these such as COPD, coronary heart disease, hepatitis C, renal failure, depression, anxiety and PTSD are chronic conditions that need long term support and management in a primary care setting. Engagement with treatment for […]
Worldwide cocaine manufacture hits record high
[…] people being treated for drugs issues in Africa and Latin America. Around 11.2m people were injecting drugs, the document says, around half of whom were living with hepatitis C, compared to 1.4m living with HIV – 1.2m were living with both. Overdose deaths in North America and Canada, meanwhile, ‘continue to break records’ and are […]
DDN3006
[…] to smoking or injecting heroin. MMT programmes allow monitoring of family relationships, including quality of parenting and domestic violence. Also, by offering comprehensive advice and testing for hepatitis C, HIV and sexually transmitted diseases, the prevalence of these con- ditions are likely to decrease. Social suppor t networks and counselling can assist with personal […]
Home truths
[…] in five of these deaths are related to drug poisoning (DDN, December 2022/January 2023, page 4). Homelessness and unstable housing also ‘substantially’ increase the risk of acquiring hepatitis C and HIV among people who inject drugs (DDN, April 2021, page 5), and according to Crisis, two thirds of homeless people cite drug or alcohol […]
The Mother of Invention
[…] clients that they might be seeing but maybe we haven’t seen. We’ve also taken in naloxone, safe storage boxes and leaflets around public health campaigns like World Hepatitis Day.’ Online support One of the most significant changes across the sector has been the move to online support, which is not something that everyone thought […]
DDN 050321
[…] What you need to know Bins & Needles 16th May – Safer Injecting & Harm Reduction Crack Awareness & Users Needs 25th May Personality Disorders 8th June Hepatitis B & C 15th June – Routes and Pathways Drugs & Housing 16th June Working with Diversity 24th June 2 day courses (£180 + VAT) Motivational […]
False economies
[…] national naloxone programme, work on quality development and service improvement, strong user involvement including a programme to train people in recovery to join the workforce, programmes on hepatitis and needle exchange, and work with the Scottish Prison Service, including dealing with NPS in prisons. The absence of a clear pathway to the drug and […]
DDN110906
[…] particular problems experienced by the individuals who come into contact with drug and alcohol workers, such as: ● Negative mood and behaviour ● Living with illness e.g. hepatitis C, alcoholic liver disease ● Eating healthily on low income Participants will look at ways that they can introduce healthy eating into their treatment programmes, with […]
The news, and the skews, in the national media
[…] substances to the Home Office we won’t progress, as they seem unable or unwilling to see beyond their failed ‘ban everything’ strategy. David Nutt, Spectator, 19 March Hepatitis C could be the UK’s next big public health success story. But if we want to eliminate it by 2025 we need a concerted and coordinated […]
Case dismissed
[…] through widespread use of synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonists such as ‘spice’ – adding new health priorities to the continuing efforts to contain blood-borne viruses, particularly HIV and hepatitis C. So if progress has stalled, where does the failure lie? The picture from the ACMD is of fragmented responsibility and a lack of systematic follow-up. […]
DDN 050321
[…] What you need to know Bins & Needles 16th May – Safer Injecting & Harm Reduction Crack Awareness & Users Needs 25th May Personality Disorders 8th June Hepatitis B & C 15th June – Routes and Pathways Drugs & Housing 16th June Working with Diversity 24th June 2 day courses (£180 + VAT) Motivational […]
Consuming passion
[…] – he’s aware DCRs aren’t a vote winner,’ But a growing number of organisations are already backing the campaign, including Release, the National Aids Trust (NAT), the Hepatitis C Trust, HIT, Swanswell and Inclusion Drug Alcohol Services in Birmingham. Media storm Considering the reaction to the Brighton report, however, just how big an obstacle […]
Agents of change
[…] and interventions to reduce harm among people who inject drugs. The four cornerstones of harm reduction – needle and syringe provision, substitution therapy and methadone, treatment for hepatitis C and HIV and the prevention and reversal of overdose – established our role as agents of behaviour change within this inclusive, non-judgemental, low-threshold environment. We […]
DDN131204
[…] and pubs which sell alcohol to minors. May: The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh calls for considerable extra resources to improve detection and treatment rates for hepatitis C. The Obser ver claims that ‘soaring levels of cocaine use among young British professionals have led to a record number of deaths’. Drugscope reveals that […]
Get the Picture
[…] celebrate recovery you’re aware that what works for you may not work for other people.’ Indicative of the overall problem was that one current target was for hepatitis C testing, he said. ‘So you can say you’ve offered testing to 99 per cent of your clients, but only 1 per cent are treated, which […]
DDN Magazine September 2019
[…] done in the short term for a population ‘so highly vulnerable to health problems’. Meanwhile, in this month’s News Focus (page 8) we look at progress on hepatitis C and find some important messages on data sharing if we are to meet NHS England’s ambitious elimination target of 2025. Read the full issue as […]
DDN2502
[…] ts, I wasn’t enjoying it anymore. I wanted to give up; the drugs weren’t working and I was going from bad to worse. I had pneumonias, septicaemias, hepatitis and was involved with stupid nuisance crime. At 29 years old, I did not care if I lived or died. That first guy I saw had […]
Picture This
[…] I was pretty much ill all the time, and I didn’t want to die from something I could do something about.’ He got in touch with the Hepatitis C Trust – ‘who were great’ – and they helped point him towards a treatment pathway. Once on this, he and a friend from rehab began […]
MPs demand ‘urgent action’ on liver disease
[…] monitored and used effectively on a far more thorough and systematic basis’. It also wants to see PHE and NHS England set ‘a clear goal’ of eliminating hepatitis C within 15 years. ‘Liver disease is the only one of the UK’s top five causes of death where death rates continue to rise and there […]
DDN151104
[…] Drug Policy Advisory Forum. Innovative policies that have proved successful are cutting crime, reducing overdoses, reintegrating drug users into society and reducing the spread of HIV and Hepatitis C. Letter to The Daily Telegraph, 3 November Launched this week, the Spikey could soon become a regular feature at the bar if pubs and clubs […]
DDN1102
[…] a form of harm minimisation, such as encouraging clients to use clean needles to inject in order to minimise the risk of infections, such as HIV or hepatitis. People present for treatment, advice and support at various stages of their substance-using career. Therefore, treatment agencies need to be able to respond to a variety […]
Zero tolerance, zero cure
[…] challenging the criminal ban. All applicants are people who inject drugs with very similar stories of many years of opioid use and all its consequences, including HIV, hepatitis C, TB, prosecution by police, and incarceration. In the ECHR the applicants claimed that by denying them access to OST the Russian authorities had violated their […]
MPs demand ‘urgent action’ on liver disease
[…] monitored and used effectively on a far more thorough and systematic basis’. It also wants to see PHE and NHS England set ‘a clear goal’ of eliminating hepatitis C within 15 years. ‘Liver disease is the only one of the UK’s top five causes of death where death rates continue to rise and there […]
DDN February 2020
[…] West Midlands fbrce is planning tb sh•are the results natibnally tb help build• the evidence base. Next up was Stuart Smith, directbr bf cbmmunity services fbr the Hepatitis C Trust. He spbke abbut the mbve tbwards eliminatibn bf the virus a•nd the impbrtance bf NSP and ha•rm reductibn services in achieving this. ‘Unless we […]
DDN March 2018
[…] say ‘I did it like this and it worked for me’ – call it expertise by experience, service user involvement, or whatever you will. But whether it’s hepatitis C treatment, supported housing, education and training, or taking part in local decision-making, the people who look back after they have tried the route are the […]
DDN2801
[…] they are not injecting street heroin into their arms or groins, which is why people with compassion understand it is this that needs stopping. We have a hepatitis C epidemic, HIV rising, rising endocarditis (7 in 1,000 injecting drug users), and increasing attacks on working girls. I feel that this is of more impor […]
First impressions
[…] how commonplace it has become for this crucial first meeting to be facilitated in a room ‘decorated’ exclusively in posters threatening certain death from overdose, HIV and hepatitis, often precariously tacked next to greyscale warnings of the latest bad batch of heroin in local circulation. Workers often report feeling pressured to hurriedly collect meaningful and […]
Liver disease admissions up more than a fifth in a year
[…] with the highest rates and those with the lowest, OHID points out. ‘Liver disease is almost entirely preventable, with the major risk factors – alcohol, obesity and hepatitis B and C –accounting for up to 90 per cent of cases’ it states. Liver disease admissions are up by 47 per cent compared to a […]
DDN060410
[…] heroin use is deteriorating health. For injecting drug users, serious vein damage is common and there is an ever- present risk of contracting blood-borne viruses such as Hepatitis C and HIV. There is also a risk of overdosing. Alongside physical health damage, many heroin users experience mood and mental health problems. Periods of low […]
Public health focus for drugs and alcohol?
[…] We need to keep the right balance between public health and treatment needs. We need to ensure that public health protection continues – needle exchange, HIV testing, hepatitis C testing, overdose prevention – we need the mixed package. That’s the message that’s got to come through, and there will be a steep learning curve […]
Flying the flag
[…] family project. ‘It’s that single intervention of alleviating isolation, because so many people with HIV live in isolation.’ Issues for HIV positive drug users included co-infection of hepatitis C and drug-resistant TB as well as denial of problematic drug use and their HIV diagnosis, she said. ‘I have a big group of friends and […]
The right focus
[…] needle exchanges, which are perhaps an easy choice but which would lead to wider public health risk of an increase in blood-borne viruses such as HIV and hepatitis C? Do they try to commission innovative digital services which, while largely unproven, are cheaper than face-to-face services and don’t require the overheads of premises? Do […]
National news from the substance misuse field
[…] cent on the previous year, while seizures of cocaine hydrochloride increased by more 150 per cent. Coca crop monitoring survey at www.unodc.org Hep course A new PHE-commissioned hepatitis C awareness course for people who work with drug users, but who don’t have a medical background, has been developed by RCGP. The free online course […]
Commissioning for change
[…] number of areas of innovation: use of digital technologies to provide psychological interventions, different forms of opioid agonist medications, and options to better address comorbidities such as hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. It is important for commissioners to consider how innovation can play a role in continuing to improve care, while balancing budgets. There […]
CZAR GAZING – How do we harness political support?
[…] see from the treatment system can be translated into political support and increased budgets. Substance misuse treatment reduces blood borne infections? The fear of drug-related HIV and hepatitis infections has receded as transmission rates have declined and treatments have improved. The cost/benefit analysis of public health prevention measures remains positive, but there is no […]
Drugs of choice
[…] that mental health was an issue for almost half of us – hardly surprising as those rooms are full of people in early addiction-healing, not to mention hepatitis C, HIV and other BBVs. She proceeded to suggest I keep taking vitamin D, as it is helpful for people with depression. I didn’t mind the […]
DDN Publication dates 2023
[…] & resettlement Gambling April Training & careers Early trauma May Criminal justice Mental health (MH Awareness Week, 9-15 May) June Volunteering (Volunteers’ Week, 1-7 June) Veterans July/August Hepatitis C (Hep C Awareness Day, 28 July) Alcohol (Alcohol Awareness Week, 3-9 July) DDN Conference coverage September Recovery Month Enterprise October Criminal justice Mental health (MH […]
Health risks of sugar
[…] misuse to cut down drastically on sugar, which has previously been perceived as a relatively harmless vice? A person who has experienced liver damage from alcohol or hepatitis C may be unaware that high levels of sugar can also contribute to damage. Although such individuals haven’t been specifically studied, cardiologist and science director at […]
Emotional intelligence – Inner strength
[…] addicted to heroin since the age of 17 and came into treatment aged 34. He was homeless, with destructive behaviours and a chaotic lifestyle. He had contracted hepatitis C and had turned to crime to support his drug habit. He was also selling himself. These behaviours went against all his morals, beliefs and values. […]
DDN060313
[…] a significant step in their drug using career. Injecting is an invasive process that heightens the risk of overdose and introduces additional risks such as contracting HIV, Hepatitis C and other blood- borne infections. Often, these are not the factors that make people reluctant to start injecting. Rather, they appear to be apprehensive about […]
2nd June issue
[…] often becomes one half of an over-familiar polarised debate in the UK, but looking at the reasoning behind basic measures to reduce the spread of HIV and hepatitis C is a stark reminder of the public health challenge at the heart of organisations such as IHRA. It was also an eye-opener to the different […]
DDNjan10
[…] in the government benefit system seem to me to work against patients like Alex. Many people with dual diagnosis, drug and/or alcohol problems and severe HIV and/or hepatitis C problems are being made to reapply or even have their benefits stopped. Care seems to have been lost in the system and it appears that […]
News in brief
[…] commission the services recommended by NICE,’ it states. Available at http://cep.lse.ac.uk Hep consultation NICE is consulting on new guidance aimed at improving the uptake of testing for hepatitis B and C. Ignorance about risk factors and misconceptions about treatment need to be tackled if barriers to effective testing of those at increased risk are […]
Addiction Treatment Directory
[…] have ongoing housing and treatment needs. Both services offer an in-house community programme, one to one key working and signposting to other services such as ETE advisers, Hepatitis screening, fellowship meetings. ESH Community www.eshcommunity.org • Warwickshire • Therapeutic Community Fully Residential drug and alcohol treatment including medically assisted detox. CQC assessed […]
DDN November
[…] a long-term trend? p6 RECOVERY T RAININ G Transforming lives through teamwork and the power of physical exercise p12 PR OFILE Charles Gore, chief executive of the Hepatitis C Trust on diagnosis, care and stigma p18 TURNING YOUNG OFFENDERS INTO TOMORROWS ENTREPRENEURS w.drinkauragsurecomcu r InoSNgSNr1r7rioerigcnr5uk5aur inkriumure-IIuees-aroS rinkr agecuSu rckrbu23 Ob T H IS M ObTH […]
DDN050711
[…] to ‘places to do with ser vice users’ from a director y of south east Wales. These early editions were all about getting information out, particularly about Hepatitis C – ‘because it was such an epidemic. I found stuff that I didn’t know, so I knew other users didn’t know it – and they […]
City Health Challenge
[…] early 30s from across London and beyond. ***** Reminding delegates of some of public health’s toughest challenges, professor of hepatology, Graham Foster, warned that the situation with hepatitis C was ‘going to get grimmer’, with many older patients now needing palliative care. ‘The virus is spreading and the epidemic is getting bigger,’ he said, […]
Meeting the needs of anabolic steroid users
[…] Indeed, a 2013 study by John Moores and Public Health England (PHE) found that one in ten steroid drugs had been exposed to one or more of hepatitis C, B or HIV. Is there enough awareness of those risks? ‘Well, what we’ve found repeatedly has been a comparable level of HIV in anabolic steroid […]
DDN0312
[…] England would soon be measured by its new Treatment Outcome Profile (TOP). June Prompted by the increase in overdose deaths and the spread of bloodborne viruses, including hepatitis C, the government pledged nearly £2m towards drug harm reduction. A health promotion campaign, vaccination programme, training, and better data would all feature in the plan.Turning […]