| Comment | I suspect that they won't but it wouldn't be too different to the current state of affairs. The health board will only approach a pharmacy to enquire as to whether they could offer needle exchange unless the already have a large number of ORT patients.
Long term, they're looking at shifting these folks off of methadone etc onto a prolonged release once weekly injection called Buvidal that is apparently much better. It also has the added benefit whereby the user doesn't have to visit a pharmacy everyday and be surrounded by temptation and risk (other users selling benzos in the queue, people trying to mug them for their take home dose etc) |
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