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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 […]
At the cutting edge
[…] authorities are ‘chronically inadequate’ and PHE announces its review of the ‘growing problem’ of prescription drug dependency. On a more positive note, the NHS states that its hepatitis C strategy could see England become the first country to eliminate the virus. FEBRUARY Get Connected, DDN’s eleventh annual service user conference, sees another vibrant day […]
Olympian struggle
[…] this labyrinth of bureaucratic procedures to start treatment, and they’re not able to even maintain their HIV treatment because they go into drug relapses.’ The figures for hepatitis C infection among people who inject drugs also make grim reading, standing at more than 70 per cent according to recent estimates. ‘In some places it’s […]
December 2018
[…] been in full swing and we have reports from HIT Hot Topics (page 12) and the GPs’ conference (page 16). Our write-up of the LJWG’s event on hepatitis C will be in our next issue. The themes may be recurring but there are many new ideas, fresh inspiration and invigorating debates. At HIT there […]
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 […]
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 […]
Recovery focus for updated ‘Orange Book’
[…] chaired the working group that updated the 2007 version – in his introduction. While there had been positive developments in areas including peer support, mutual aid and hepatitis C treatment, there remained ‘marked weakness’ in support for social integration, such as housing and employment. The treatment landscape had also changed dramatically since the last […]
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 […]
DDN September 2022
[…] trauma that underlies most addiction problems (p8). People with lived experience have been vital to the development and success of essential parts of the treatment system, including hepatitis C initiatives (p10 & 16). Let’s also remember (p25) that they are vital to designing a harm reduction system that makes sense. Starting this month, our […]
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 […]
My Recovery My Choice
[…] organisations including CRI, Addaction, Adfam and the Scottish Drugs Forum. The programme is looking to extend its outreach through collaborative development of content relating to keeping healthy, hepatitis C infection and alcohol use. The focus remains to provide those affected with meaningful information and non-judgemental support to help them decide what, if any, steps […]
DDN November
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Cannabis four times stronger than 25 years ago
[…] ‘develop sustainable solutions to drug use’, the document says. More than 11m people worldwide are now estimated to inject drugs, around half of whom are living with hepatitis C. The number of daily doses of methadone and buprenorphine has risen from 557m in 1999 to 3,317m, a six-fold increase. In common with recent reports […]
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 […]
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 […]
Soapbox
[…] for, nor seeking, abstinence. This approach furthermore minimises the importance of such proven public health measures as needle and syringe programmes (NSP), HIV treatment and testing, comprehensive hepatitis services, and overdose prevention. Whatever one’s views on the value of the use of the term ‘recovery’ (I personally do not find it helpful, as I […]
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 […]
Make It Happen! programme
[…] ‘Perspectives’, chaired by Alistair Sinclair, UKRF Naloxone – Nigel Brunsdon, Injecting Advice and HIT Visible recovery – Lancashire User Forum (LUF) Hep C van – Jim Conneely, Hepatitis C Trust The case for drug consumption rooms – Philippe Bonnet, founder of the Independent Consortium on Drug Consumption Rooms UK recovery communities – Lester Morse, East […]
On borrowed time
[…] United Nations General Assembly Special Session on drugs (UNGASS). The minister’s priorities should include following guidance provided by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) – including ensuring comprehensive access to the life-saving drug naloxone across the whole of the UK, and making NICE-approved treatments available to all patients diagnosed with hepatitis C.
DDNoct11
[…] to be adaptable and enthusiastic for change.You will have line management responsibility and will need to be fully competent in all aspects of BBV minimisation a nd Hepatitis vaccination deliver y. For fur ther details please contact Sue Hamilton, Area Manager KCA (UKb on 01843 298355 ext 217. A ppbication forms and job descriptions […]
The long road
[…] bounds compared to how it used to be but for some reason there’s still reluctance in some places, which I’ll never understand,’ peer support lead at the Hepatitis C Trust and longstanding naloxone champion, Philippe Bonnet, tells DDN. ‘You’ve got some housing providers who still don’t want naloxone on their premises, for example. It […]
DDN2303
[…] our schools, the education of our children and the life of our communities, because addicts bankrupt businesses and destroy jobs, burgle people’s homes, spread HIV, Aids and hepatitis and waste our tax money and other resources. Addicts and drunks also commit the most crimes, and are undoubtedly the real current threat to our lives […]
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 […]
DDN1911
[…] been availablesince 1993.’ The drop in drugs deaths after 2000 was followed by a steep increase in 2004/5, largely accounted for by deaths involving heroin and morphine. Hepatitis C, re-offending, drug prevalence, problem use and the methadone ‘cul de sac’ – all rising statistics – are detailed and analysed in our repor t. Moreover […]
Adfam at 40
[…] this include the BEAD project supporting those bereaved through substance misuse, working with families of veterans with substance misuse problems, families of gamblers, families of people with hepatitis C or who inject drugs, those experiencing child-parent violence and abuse, families supporting a loved one with a dual diagnosis, or Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). […]
DDNjan11
[…] us for dates in Plymouth) One day courses (£125 + VAT) Addiction, dependency & recovery 25 Jan Alcohol - Brief interventions 8 Feb Resilience skills 10 Mar Hepatitis C 29 Mar Steroids & other body building drugs 5 Apr Group supervision 18 May Difficult & aggressive behaviour 26 May ITEP and Node link mapping […]
Problem drug use ‘not a personal failing’, says SDF manifesto
[…] ‘who could benefit from treatment are actively engaged’, it says, while successful local harm reduction initiatives should be rolled out nationally, with increased investment for HIV and hepatitis testing for anyone with a history of injecting drugs. Services for women also need to be urgently improved, says SDF, to help reduce deaths and ensure […]
‘We’re in danger of undervaluing vital healthcare’
[…] template (see the letter on shared care, page 12). Any straightforward opportunity to save lives should be an obvious move (page 6), and we hope that our hepatitis C supplement will contribute to this important public health initiative – visit our website to share the pdf and order free printed copies. Let’s all do […]
‘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 […]
Another record year for England and Wales drug deaths
[…] issues as a result. Through measures such as increased provision of naloxone, easier access to safe needles and syringes, and testing and treatment for diseases such as hepatitis C, Humankind is focused on ensuring that people who use drugs face fewer risks.’ From a statement by Humankind **** Niamh Eastwood, Release ‘AN UTTER DISGRACE […]
Only 4 per cent of global drug users with HIV receiving anti-retrovirals
[…] use drugs, destruction of drug crops and other drug control measures,’ says the organisation. ‘HRI argues that if just a tenth of this money were redirected to harm reduction, it could fill the gap in HIV and Hepatitis C prevention for people who use drugs twice over. Global state of harm reduction 2014 at www.ihra.net
Overdose prevention centres could save ‘thousands’ of lives, says major evidence review
[…] as consumption rooms – have reportedly safely managed ‘hundreds, in some cases, thousands’ of overdoses, ‘saving many lives’. Researchers also found evidence of prevention of HIV and hepatitis transmission through reduced sharing of injecting equipment, as well as referrals to drug treatment and other support and collection of valuable data for health services. The […]
DDN April 2017
[…] properly supported initiatives. The other huge opportunity in investing in engagement with those in the criminal justice system is, as Charles Gore reminds us in relation to hepatitis C, to offer life-saving inventions and ‘send people out of prison better than they went in’. Claire Brown, editor Read the PDF version or the mobile […]
DDN Wider Health Hep C_web
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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 […]
DDN1805
[…] Fortunately things had moved on from there, he said, quoting examples of best practice, needle exchange and substitute prescribing that were helping to slow the spread of hepatitis C and HIV in countries as diverse as Spain and Moldova. The challenges faced by those attempting to introduce harm reduction measures in prisons in many […]
Counter culture
[…] can do.’ He reels off a list of basic interventions and harm reduction advice, as well as the opportunity to introduce patients to the right kind of hepatitis C treatment to suit their condition – ‘if you’re on OST you get one kind of treatment, if you’re a drinker you get another one, and […]
DDN October 2018
DRINK AND DRUGS NEWS ISSN 1755-6236 OCTOBER 2018 LET’S WORK TOGETHER TO ERADICATE HEPATITIS C PLUS : Our eight-page hep C supplement inside THE BIG CHALLENGE d ontb ottleitup .org .uk d on t b ot t le it u p. or g .u k 1 70, 0 0 0 p […]
Online tool to help find a needle and syringe service
[…] to help people reduce harm, while studies have shown they are effective in helping people access drug treatment and in reducing the spread of bloodborne viruses like Hepatitis C. At the same time, With You is also releasing a host of online, diagram based harm reduction advice to encourage people who use drugs to […]
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 […]
DDN 041223
[…] shops 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 verclaims that ‘soaring levels of cocaine use among young British professionals have led to a record number of deaths’. Drugscope reveals that police […]
DDN2707
[…] to probation for a pre-sentence report after shoplifting; an HIV positive mother contemplating the risk of homelessness on her release from prison, and a cocaine user with hepatitis C who had been charged with several shoplifting offences and faced the charges without having any suppor t from an estranged family and former partner. Problematic […]
DDN2303
[…] our schools, the education of our children and the life of our communities, because addicts bankrupt businesses and destroy jobs, burgle people’s homes, spread HIV, Aids and hepatitis and waste our tax money and other resources. Addicts and drunks also commit the most crimes, and are undoubtedly the real current threat to our lives […]
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 […]
DDN2707
[…] to probation for a pre-sentence report after shoplifting; an HIV positive mother contemplating the risk of homelessness on her release from prison, and a cocaine user with hepatitis C who had been charged with several shoplifting offences and faced the charges without having any suppor t from an estranged family and former partner. Problematic […]
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 […]
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 […]
DDN1806
[…] in the US and Europe, and heroin addiction in Iran, Russia, Pakistan, India and China is reaching staggering propor tions, contributing to the spread of HIV and hepatitis C. Buprenorphine sublingual tablets and naltrexone may be even better suited medications for Third World and Islamic countries than they are in the West because most […]