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Guidance
for the Prevention, Testing, Treatment & Management of Hepatitis
C in Primary Care
Royal College of General Practitioners (2007)
This guidance has been produced to aid medical practitioners and others in the management of hepatitis C infection in Primary Care.
Shooting
Up - Infections among injecting drug users in the United Kingdom 2009. An
update: November 2010
HPA: November 2010
European
report on drug consumption rooms
EMCDDA
Describes what consumption rooms are and why and how they came about as well as who they target, what specific objectives they have, how they function and what their limitations are. It summarises available evidence on the expected benefits and risks of such facilities, addressing important health and social questions.
Supervised injecting
centres
BMJ (January 2004)
The case for piloting supervised injecting centres in the United Kingdom is strong.
EVALUATION
OF THE PROVISION OF SINGLE USE CITRIC ACID SACHETS TO INJECTING DRUG
USERS
Effective Interventions Unit (January 2003)
Authors: Jennifer Garden, Kay Roberts, Avril Taylor, David Robinson.
Three hundred and sixty injecting drug users (I DUs) took part in a survey to assess the acceptance, effectiveness and efficiency of the provision of single use citric acid sachets to IDUs in Greater Glasgow and Lanarkshire.
Hep
C - Risk and Prevention strategies with injecting drug users
Scottish Effective Interventions Unit (April 2002)
Summary of the EIU document.
Hep
C - Guidance for those working with drug users
DoH (January 2001)
A document to read in the context of a system where clean equipment is still not available in prisons, and may be rationed and limited in some areas, where it is still illegal to distribute sterile water, filters and cookers, and workers are still woefully undertrained on this subject. But an essential document on the subject nonetheless.
Evaluation
of the Greater Glasgow Pharmacy needle Exchange 1997-2002
EIU Scotland (December 2002)
Substances
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