| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | International
Drug deaths could rise if Bristol Mayor’s Office forces people off methadone.
Drug deaths could rise if Bristol Mayor’s Office forces people off methadone.
Bristol City Council is consulting on a proposal to cut up to 10% of the budget for GPs and pharmacists to prescribe methadone or buprenorphine (Opiate Substitution Treatment – OST) to people dependent on heroin. This is to be done “by ensuring that client management and prescribing…is focused on a recovery approach (actively supporting clients to become free of a dependency on prescribed drugs as a substitute) rather than a maintenance approach (where clients are on prescriptions long term)”. (Talking Drugs, UK, 02.05.2019)
https://transformdrugs.org/deaths-rise-if-bristol-mayor-forces-people-off-methadone/