Community pharmacy harm reduction services for drug misusers: national service delivery and professional attitude development over a decade in Scotland
Author(s) -
Catriona Matheson,
Christine Bond,
Michela Tinelli
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1741-3850
pISSN - 1741-3842
DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdm064
Subject(s) - pharmacy , methadone , harm reduction , medicine , quarter (canadian coin) , family medicine , service delivery framework , methadone maintenance , buprenorphine , service (business) , medical emergency , environmental health , psychiatry , business , opioid , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , marketing , receptor , archaeology , history
Community pharmacy contributes to drug misuse management and reduced spread of blood-borne disease through distributing clean needles and substitute drug dispensing. This paper reports a third Scotland-wide survey of pharmacies enabling service delivery to be charted over a decade.
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