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UK. Guidance: Drug misuse and dependence: UK guidelines on clinical management - How clinicians should treat people with drug misuse and drug dependence problems.

UK. Guidance: Drug misuse and dependence: UK guidelines on clinical management - How clinicians should treat people with drug misuse and drug dependence problems.

Published 14 July 2017, Last updated 15 December 2017

Government of UK, Department of Health

This 2017 version offers new guidelines on:

prison-based treatment

new psychoactive substances and club drugs

mental health co-morbidity

misuse of prescribed and over-the-counter medicines

stopping smoking

preventing drug-related deaths, including naloxone provision

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/668611/clinical_guidelines_2017.pdf