simon greasley

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1. Psychiatry in UK

   simon greasley replied to Thanet's topic in Psychiatric

   Here are some recent things i've been involved in http://www.drinkanddrugs.net/drinkanddrugsnews/310706.pdf http://www.smmgp.org.uk/html/newsletters/net015.php#Welcome Hope this is of use regards Simon

2. Psychiatry in UK

   simon greasley replied to Thanet's topic in Psychiatric

   I'm in the UK, worked acute, elderly, rehab, prisons currently in primary care in a Nurse led substance misuse clinic.

3. Heroin addiction

   simon greasley replied to simon greasley's topic in Psychiatric

   Thanks for the info. It's great to hear wha is happening in different countries.

4. Heroin addiction

   simon greasley replied to simon greasley's topic in Psychiatric

   Well the American research was done about 40-50 years ago I think, it is nothing new.

5. Heroin addiction

   simon greasley replied to simon greasley's topic in Psychiatric

   Interesting you guys talk of detox?, this is a bit strange as most work now are aiming for maintanance treatment. This comes from originally american research by nyswander and dole, this said it needed treatment for life. We in our practice only loo...

6. Heroin addiction

   simon greasley replied to simon greasley's topic in Psychiatric

   Thanks for replying our set-up is different to yours I work in a small primary care clinic. I do prescribe methadone and Subutex, we don't prescribe clonidine but something similar with less hypotension (Lofexidine). I do counselling, the point about...

7. Heroin addiction

   simon greasley posted a topic in Psychiatric

   Hi there, I am a psychiatric Nurse working in England, I was the first Nurse prescriber to prescribe substitute drugs to heroin addicts in our country. I was wondering if you have Nurse prescribing in your country and how it works there?.