Agensi antidadah kebangsaan kementerian dalam negeri

Drug Action Team
Community drug teams offer greater opportunities for drug misusers to
maintain positive relationships, find stable employment, develop
through educational and training courses, and gain access to good quality
medical services and counseling support to help achieve a drug-free
lifestyle. The drug team may be based in a hospital or clinic, or may be
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Corkery J.M. (1997), Statistics of Drug Addicts Notified to the Home Office, United Kingdom,
1996
, at pg 3, Home Office Research and Statistics Directorate, Issue 22/97, London: Home
Office.
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Parker, Bury and Egginton (1998), New Heroin Outbreaks Amongst Young People in England
and Wales
, at pg 11, Home Office Police Research Group: Crime Detection and Prevention
Series paper 92, London: Home Office; United Kingdom Home Office Annual Report
1998-99: Chapter 9 - Drugs.
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Section 30, Misuse of Drugs Act 1971; Regulation 4, Misuse of Drugs (Notification of and
Supply to Addicts) Regulations 1973.

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based in the community or local authority boundaries. Their interventions
commonly involve assessment and counseling, sometimes detoxification
and prescribing. Activities include advocacy work, child protection work,
complementary therapy, writing of court reports, and liaison with the
criminal justice system, with prisons and probation officers and referrals
on to other services. The majority described their approach as based on
concepts of harm-reduction but with abstinence being the ideal eventual
goal. They aim is at improving the quality of life of substance misusers
by prescribing methadone (for opiate users) in place of heroin, offering
advice and counseling and encouraging safer drug use and where
appropriate, abstinence. In the case of some addicts, the prescriptions of
methadone
were available over a longer period of time to discourage a
return to street drug misuse and the additional risk of physical harm
inherent with drug injecting, such as HIV and Hepatitis. Patients may be
referred on to mental health services, specialized services such as Genito-
Urinary Medicine or HIV services and to residential rehabilitation as
appropriate. The team is also in contact with self-help groups.
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