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Appendix 6 - Glossary of terms
Methadone Replacement Prescribing is the clinical process of prescribing the opiate drug methadone to substance misusers who are dependent on opiate drugs - mainly intravenous heroin. Prescribing methadone in this way does not "cure" a dependent individual from their dependency. Instead it allows that individual, if they wish to, to change their drug using behaviours, reducing the frequency and risks of injecting, and drug use overall as well as engaging them with a therapeutic service which can support them as they make changes in their lives. Ultimately some may stop using illicit drugs altogether.
A glossary of terms used in the paper is included below:
ADAT | Alcohol and Drug Action Team |
BBV | Blood Borne Virus |
CHI | Community Health Index |
DORIS | Drug Outcome Research in Scotland |
DTTO | Drug Treatment and Testing Order |
ECSAS | East Central Scotland Addiction Services |
GMS | General Medical Services |
Hall 4 | Current strategy for development of health visitor services |
HIV | Human Immunodeficiency Virus |
LHCC | Local Health Co-ordinating Committee |
MAP | Maudsley Addiction Profile |
MCN | Managed Clinical/Care Network |
MMT | Methadone Maintenance Treatment |
NES | National Enhanced Service |
NMP | Non Medical Prescribing |
NTA | National Treatment Agency |
NTORS | National Treatment Outcomes Research Study |
PBMA | Programme Budget Marginal Analysis |
PTSD | Post Traumatic Stress Disorder |
SAADAT | Scottish Association of Alcohol and Drug Action Teams |
SACDM | Scottish Advisory Committee on Drug Misuse |
SCIEH* | Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health |
SDMD | Scottish Drug Misuse Database |
SE | Scottish Executive |
SMR25 | Assessment Report to SDMD on an individual entering treatment |
SSA | Supervised Self Administration |
TSMS | Tayside Substance Misuse Services |
* SCIEH is now part of Health Protection Scotland
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