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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
DDN16nov09
[…] through the mud. The council has been involved in some groundbreaking work, such as Hidden harm,Reducing drug related deaths and most recently its challenging repor t on hepatitis C. The issue of cannabis, although it dominated airtime, is of minimal impor tance given the considerable advice given and acted upon by the Home Office. […]
News Focus
[…] it to be very problematic for the health of the individuals concerned. There have been a few deaths, and certainly a real transmission risk around HIV and hepatitis C. Maybe what we can say is that among some gay men who were engaged in risk activity, their risk is becoming even higher risk as […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Harm reduction worldwide has ‘stalled’, warns HRI
[…] ‘already strong arguments for increasing the availability of naloxone and DCRs’. There are an estimated 15.6m people worldwide who inject drugs, with more than half living with hepatitis C and almost one in five living with HIV. Harm reduction in prisons remains ‘in a worse state than in the community’, the report adds, with […]
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 […]
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 […]
DDN Wider Health Hep C_web
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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 […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
At breaking point
[…] get an alcohol strategy’. John Jolly: Lack of investment has left us unable to respond to ‘huge health issues’ coming our way. Chronic health conditions – including hepatitis C, which had 90 per cent of cases relating to drug use – far outnumbered deaths from drug-related poisoning, he pointed out. ‘We’re failing by the […]
Liver disease stats map out stark inequalities
[…] to more than 30 in Blackpool. Liver disease now accounts for nearly 12 per cent of total deaths among men in their 40s, with alcohol, obesity and hepatitis B and C responsible for 90 per cent of cases. Hospital admissions for liver cirrhosis have doubled over the last decade, says PHE, although there are […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
A round-up of national news: December 2016
[…] 1 per cent of people who inject drugs in the UK are infected, although 17 per cent reported sharing injecting equipment and around half have been infected with hepatitis C, often without being aware. Bacterial infections also remain common, it states, some of which can lead to severe illnesses. Report at www.gov.uk UNAPPEALING DEVELOPMENTS The Scotch […]
A participant’s view: Highlights from the GPs’ conference
[…] was the news from Professor Graham Foster, professor of at Queen Mary University Hospital London, that there is a pot of £70m available for the treatment of hepatitis C. He explained that, from January, there’ll no longer be the need for combination therapy, with the release of a new licensed drug that will not […]
Round-up of National News, October
[…] and e-cigarettes, which many smokers find helpful for quitting, are now regulated to assure their safety and quality.’ HEP OPTIMISM Another ‘potential curative’ drug for people with hepatitis C is to be made available on the NHS, according to new guidance published by NICE. Elbasvir/grazoprevir has shown cure rates above 90 per cent in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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