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Appendix 4 - The Ten Millan Principles
There are Ten Millan principles which all areas will adopt to guide our work:
1. Non-discrimination - People with substance misuse problems should, wherever possible, retain the same rights and entitlements as those with other health needs.
2. Equality - All interventions will be exercised without any direct or indirect discrimination on the grounds of physical disability, age, gender, sexual orientation, language, religion, or national, ethnic or social origin.
3. Respect for diversity - Service users should receive care, treatment and support in a manner that accords respect for their individual qualities, abilities and diverse backgrounds and properly takes into account their age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnic group, and social, cultural and religious background.
4. Reciprocity - Where society imposes an obligation on an individual to comply with a programme of treatment of care, it should impose a parallel obligation on the health and social care authorities to provide safe and appropriate services, including ongoing care following discharge from compulsion.
5. Informal care - Wherever possible, care, treatment and support should be provided to people with substance misuse problems without the use of compulsory powers.
6. Participation - Service users should be fully involved, so far as they are able to be, in all aspects of their assessment, care, treatment and support. Their past and present wishes should be taken into account. They should be provided with all the information and support necessary to enable them to participate fully. Information should be provided in a way which makes it most likely to be understood.
7. Respect for carers - Those who provide care to service users on an informal basis should receive respect for their role and experience, receive appropriate information and advice, and have their views and needs taken into account.
8. Least restrictive alternative - Service users should be provided with any necessary care, treatment and support both in the least invasive manner and in the least restrictive manner and environment compatible with the delivery of safe and effective care, taking account where appropriate of the safety of others.
9. Benefit - Any intervention should be likely to produce for the service user a benefit that cannot reasonably be achieved other than by the intervention.
10. Child welfare - The welfare of a children affected by substance misuse should be paramount in any interventions imposed on the child under the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003.
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