Substance Misuse

PHE issues a national alert after an "unprecedented number of overdoses".

Overdose treatment naloxone should be available from every community pharmacy in Scotland, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society has said.

Homeless people in London will be offered support to stop drinking and taking drugs through a new detox unit. 

Provisional data from the Office for National Statistics revealed a 19.6 per cent rise in deaths last year compared with 2019. 

Over a third of people (34.4 per cent) reported a change in their drinking habits over the last year.

A charity is calling for stimulant street drugs including cocaine and ecstasy to be ‘nationalised’ and sold in Government-run pharmacies.

The number of drug-related deaths in England and Wales last year climbed to the highest levels since records started in 1993.

The MHRA is asking healthcare professionals to give patients “stronger warnings” on the risks of opioids.

Independent Pharmacy Awards winner Shaheen Bhatia appeared with Ross Kemp in a documentary about opioid addiction.

A community pharmacy in south Belfast is to withdraw its needle exchange service after more than 20 years following protests from local residents.

WHO retracted the guidelines amid allegations that drug manufacturers had undue influence on their development.  

Independent Pharmacy Awards winner Shaheen Bhatia is part of the biggest change in opioid treatment in 40 years.

RPS president Sandra Gidley said online pharmacies can check medicines prescribed to patients after the death of a woman.

Researchers found prescribing rates were 45 per cent higher in the most deprived populations compared to the least.

Social deprivation and lack of access to information are potential factors in prescription drug dependence.

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Consultation opened on plans to extend list of products that should not be routinely prescribed.

The community pharmacy network in Northern Ireland is on the brink of collapse as pharmacies across the country fail to pay their bills and suppliers and wholesalers warn the supply of medicines to patients “will grind to a halt” as a result.

The community pharmacy sector in Northern Ireland has been handed more than £11 million in additional funding over the next 16 months.

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