Planning and Provision of Drug Misuse Services
APPENDIX I

Information Resources

A list of selected relevant publications - under suitable headings for ease of reference -
follows.

The Strategic Framework
Drugs in Scotland: Meeting the Challenge.
Report of a Ministerial Task Force

ISBN 0114952779. Edinburgh HMSO 1994

Available from:
The Stationery Office Bookships
or from The Stationery Office
Publications Centre,
PO Box 276, LONDON SW8 5DT

 Scotland's Strategy on drugs
Statistical Background
Scottish Drug Misuse Database

Available from The NHS in Scotland
Common Services Agency - Information and
Statistics Division. Tel: 0131 551 8715

 The database is supported by the Information and Statistics Division (ISD) and offers a profile on the misuse of drugs, based on information about patients or clients seen at a range of services across Scotland including general practice and specialist drug services (statutory and non statutory). The database collects anonymous information on the demographic and behavioural characteristics of new problem drug users.

A range of statistical information can be derived from the database including age and sex characteristics of drug misusers; social information; type of drugs misused; and injecting and sharing behaviour. Wherever possible, ISD will provide analyses of the database on request to meet the particular needs of customers.
Drug Misuse Statistics Scotland

Available from: The NHS in Scotland Common
Services Agency - Information and
Statistics Division. Tel: 0131 551 8715

 Annual statistical report including information from the Scottish Drug Misuse Database and from other sources: Hospital Inpatient Statistics from ISD; Hepatitis B, HepatitisC, HIV infections and AIDS from the Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health (SCIEH); Prescriptions and Defined Daily Doses from the Pharmacy Practice Division (PPD) of the Common Services Agency; Drug-related Deaths from the General Register Office for Scotland (GRO); Drug Seizure statistics from the Home Office; and Regional Database Statistics from England and Wales from the Department of Health.
Scottish Crime Survey 1996

Scottish Office Central Research Unit.
Edinburgh HMSO

Available from: The Stationery Office Bookships
or from The Stationery Office Publications centre,
PO Box 276, LONDON SW8 5DT

 Provides nationally representative estimates of the prevalence of drug misuse in Scotland
Drug Misuse in Britain 1996

Institute for Study of Drug Dependence
(ISDD) 1997. ISBN 0-9 48830-53-0

Available from:
ISDD, 32-36 Loman Street,
LONDON, SE10EE.
Tel: 0171-803 4712.

 An overview of all the drug misuse data available including that from the UK regional drug misuse databases.
Collecting information on
Drug Related Deaths
by the General Register Office for Scotland.

The General Register Office for Scotland.

Available from:
The General Register Office for Scotland.

Ladywell House

Edinburgh Tel:0131 314 4229

 Statistics of drug - related deaths.
General
Estimating the Prevalence of Drug Misuse
in Scotland: A Critical Review
and Practical Guide.

Martin Fisher, Scottish Centre for Infection
and Environmental Health.
HMSO. ISBN 9 780748 051564

Available from: The Stationery Office Bookshops
or from The Stationery Office Publications Centre,
PO Box 276, LONDON SW8 5DT.

 Considers the value, as well as cost implications, of conducting prevalence estimation in relation to other indicators of drug misuse to both policy makers and those delivering services.
Community Care Plans for People with Drug
and Alcohol Problems: Assessment of Impact.
(A report to the Scottish Office
Social Work Services Inspectorate)

Prof John B Davies, Kay Duncan
and NeilCoggans. HMSO 1995

Available from: The Stationery Office Bookshops
or from The Stationery Office Publications Centre,
PO Box 276, LONDON SW85DT.

 Report of a monitoring exercise to assess progress made by local authorities in implementing community care arrangements for people with alcohol and drug problems.
Substance Misuse:
Commissioning Community Care:
(Report of 4 Regional Conferences).

Department of Health,
Social Services Inspectorate. HMSO 1995

Available from: The Stationery Office Bookshops
or from The Stationery Office Publications Centre,
PO Box 276, LONDON SW8 5DT.

 Outlines the issues which emerged at four regional conferences on substance misuse, organised by the Social Services Inspectorate during the autumn of 1994. Produced with a view to assisting local authorities to develop a needs-led approach to commissioning services.
Purchase of Service:
Practice Guidance and Practice Material
for Social Service Departments
and Other Agencies.

Department of Health,
Social Service Inspectorate. HMSO 1991

Available from: The Stationery Office Bookshops
or from The Stationery Office Publications Centre,
PO Box 276, LONDON SW8 5DT.

 Practice guidance and practice material for local authority social services departments, to help them decide how to introduce the purchase of service.
Outcome Monitoring: Practical Advice
for Developing Monitoring Systems:
(Report for Agencies in the Drug
and Alcohol Fields).

Sarah Burns, Standing Conference
on Drug Abuse 1994.

Available from:
SCODA, Waterbridge House,
32-36 Loman Street,
London SE1 OEE.

 Some initial guidance for agencies considering the introduction of outcome monitoring.
Standard setting in Audit: Hugh Dufficy
and KimHager with the
SCODA Audit Working Groups.

Standing Conference on Drug Abuse 1993.

Available from:
SCODA, Waterbridge House,
32-36 Loman Street, London SE1 OEE.

 Guidance for all sectors of the field on auditing policies and practices within their services.
Improving the Delivery of Drug
and Alcohol Services: Peer Group Audit:
(Report of the Substance Misuse Services
Audit Project 1993-96).

National Health Service Executive 1996.

ISBN '96-A0-0003

Available from:

NHS Executive, Anglia and Oxford,

6-12 Capital Drive, Milton Keynes

MK14 6QP

 Report on the first region-wide audit programme for drug and alcohol services using the reciprocal peer group method.
The Task Force to Review Services
for Drug Misusers

Department of Health, London 1996.

Available from:

Department of Health,PO Box 410,
Wetherby, LS237L

 Report of an Independent Review of Drug Treatment Services in England. (The Polkinghorne Report).
The National Treatment Outcome
Research Study (NTORS) - 2nd Bulletin

The Department of Health, London.

Available from:
The Department of Health, Room 440

Wellington House, 133-155 Waterloo Road

London, SE1 8UG

Tel: 0171 396 4166

 A prospective, multi-site outcome study of a cohort of more than 1000 clients in England. Improvements in substance use problems at 6 months follow-up.
The Development of Local Authority Services
for Drug and Alcohol Misusers

Rowdy Yates, Scottish Drugs Training Project,
University of Stirling. The Scottish Office
Central Research Unit.
HMSO 1997. ISBN 0 7480 5847 8

Available from:
The Stationery Office Bookshops or
from The Stationery Office Publications Centre,
PO Box 276, LONDON SW8 5DT

 Practical guidance on the development of services for people who misuse alcohol and drugs, to assist those working in the new local authorities.
Drugs in Scotland: Informing the Challenge

Health Education Board for Scotland:
HMSO 1997. ISBN 1 873452 94 2

Available from:

The Stationery Office Bookshops or
from The Stationery Office Publications Centre,
PO Box 276, LONDON SW85DT.

 Reference source for those involved in tackling drugs
Where to Get Help. A Directory of Specialist
Drug Services in Scotland.

Scottish Drugs Forum.
HMSO 1996. ISBN 09519761 5 X

Available from:
The Stationery Office Bookshops or
from The Stationery Office Publications Centre,
PO Box 276, LONDON SW85DT.

 An easy-to-use reference guide providing information on specialist drug services in Scotland.
Mental Health
A Framework for Mental Health Services
in Scotland

Available from:
The Scottish Office, NHS in Scotland
Management Executive, Directorate of

Strategy and Performance Management,

St Andrews House, Regent Road, Edinburgh,

EH1 3DG,Tel: 0131 244 2787

 Draws from best current practice and builds upon initiatives already in train. Discusses the need for joint agency protocols on care management, the care programme approach and community care orders.
Community Care:
Care Programme Approach for People
with Severe and Enduring Mental Illness
Including Dementia.
Social Work Services Group Circular 16/96

Available from:
The Scottish Office, Social Work Services

Inspectorate, Room 38, James Craig Walk,

Edinburgh, EH13BA

Tel: 0131 244 5409

 Sets out the principles of the care programme approach.
Young People
Drug Education:
Approaches, effectiveness and implications
for delivery: HEBS Working paper number1.

Available from:

Health Education Board
for Scotland (HEBS),
Woodburn House,
Cannan Lane,
EDINBURGH, EH104SG.
Tel: 0131-556 5500.

 Provides an overview on the approaches to drug education, including evidence of effectiveness and implications for delivery in the mass media communities and schools.
Children and Young People:
Substance Misuse Services:
the Substance of Young Needs.

NHS Health Advisory Service
thematic review, 1996.
London HMSO. ISBN

0-11 321934.2

Available from:
The Stationery Office Bookshops or
from The Stationery Office Publications Centre,
PO Box 276, LONDON SW85DT.

 Review of services for young people (see Appendix F, for a summary)
Drug Action Teams
A Practical Digest for Drug Action Teams

Prepared for Central Drugs Co-ordinating Unit
(CDCU) by the Resource and Service
Development Centre, Leeds 1996

Available from:
CDCU, Room 67/4,
Government Offices,
Great George Street,
LONDON SW1P 3AL.

 Examples of good practice from Drug Action Teams.
Training for drug action

Standing Conference on Drug Abuse 1996.

Available from:
SCODA,
Waterbridge House,
32-36 Loman Street,
LONDON SE1 0EE.

 A guide for Drug Action Teams on the strategic use of training.
Criminal Justice
Drug Misuse and the Criminal Justice
System: a review of the literature.

Home Office Drugs Prevention Initiative.

Available from:
The Central Drugs Co-ordinating Unit,
Room 354,
Horseferry House,
Dean Ryle Street,
LONDON SW1P 2AW.

 A comprehensive review of English
language research about drugs and crime, interventions before sentence, community penalties and interventions in prisons.
Pharmaceutical Services
Local Contracting for
Pharmaceutical Services:
Initial Guidance to Health Boards.

The Scottish Office, Department of Health,

27 February 1997.

Available from:

The Scottish Office, NHS in Scotland

Management Executive,
Primary Care Pharmaceutical Services

DirectorateSt. Andrews House,

Edinburgh, EH13DG

Tel: 0131 244 2597

 Advice to Health Boards on amendments made to the NHS (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Regulations.
Pharmaceutical Aspects
of Methadone Prescribing

Scottish Centre for Post Qualification
Pharmaceutical Education (SCPPE).

Available from:
SCPPE,
University of Strathclyde,
204 George Street,
GLASGOW, G1 1XW

 A distance learning educational package for NHS pharmacists, which focuses on methadone substitute prescribing, including operating a supervised self-administration programme.
Needle and Syringe Exchange Schemes
in Community Pharmacy Practice

Scottish Centre for Post Qualification
Pharmaceutical Education (SCPPE)

Available from:
SCPPE,
University of Strathclyde,
204 George Street,
GLASGOW, G1 1XW

 A distance learning educational package for NHS pharmacists which focuses on a pharmacy-run needle and syringe exchange scheme.
AIDS and Drug Misuse:
HIV and AIDS in Scotland:
Prevention the Key.
Report of a Ministerial Task Force

Department of Health.
Edinburgh HMSO 1992.

Available from:
The Stationery Office Bookships or
from The Stationery Office Publications Centre,
PO Box 276, LONDON SW8 5DT.

 Scotland's Strategy on HIV/AIDS.
AIDS and Drug Misuse: Update.

Advisory Council on the Drug Misuse 1993.
London HMSO.

Available from:
The Stationery Office Bookshops or
from The Stationery Office Publications Centre,
PO Box 276, LONDON SW8 5DT.

 An update on previous reports which looks at broadening the focus of activity to target potential injecting drug misusers by a range of early interventions.
AIDS and Drug Misuse: Parts I and II.

Advisory Council on the
Drug Misuse 1988, 1989.
London HMSO.

Available from:
The Stationery Office Bookshops or
from The Stationery Office Publications Centre,
PO Box 276, LONDON SW8 5DT.

 Part 1 focuses on measures to combat the spread of HIV infection amongst injecting drug users. Part 2 addresses the implications for services of HIV-infection and AIDS in drug misusers.
Staying Safe: HIV and Drug Use

Standing Conference on Drug Abuse 1993.

Available from:
SCODA,
Waterbridge House,
32-36 Loman Street,
London SE1 0EE.

 Practical guidance for drug services about advice to service users.
Clinical Guidance and Guidelines
Drug Misuse and Dependence:
Guidelines on Clinical Management

Department of Health,
Scottish Office Home and Health Department,
Welsh Office. London,
HMSO 1991. ISBN 0 11 321376 X

Available from:
The Stationery Office Bookshops or
from The Stationery Office Publications Centre,
PO Box 276, LONDON SW8 5DT.

 Guidelines produced by a medical working group chaired by the Chief Medical Officer's Consultant Adviser on Drug Misuse. Issued to all doctors and all newly qualified doctors. Revised publication will be available in 1998.
Good Practice in Substitute Prescribing

The Scottish Office Department of Health 1997.

Available from:

The Scottish Office, NHS in Scotland

Management Executive, Directorate of

Strategy and Performance Management,

St. Andrews House, Regent Road,

Edinburgh, EH1 3DG

Tel: 0131 244 2787

Substance Misuse for Nursing,
Midwifery and Health Visiting:
Guidance on Good Clinical Practice
for Specialist Nurses working with
alcohol and drugs.

Association of Nurses
in Substance Abuse (ANSA).

Available from:
ANSA Professional Briefings,
120 Wilton Road,
London SW1V1JZ.
Tel: 0171 233 8322

 A practical guide to good practice in substitute prescribing for general practitioners and other health care professionals working in the field of drug misuse.

A resource for all nurses working with drug and alcohol misusers in a specialist setting.
Substance Misuse for Nursing, Midwifery
and Health Visiting: Guidance on
Good Clinical Practice for Nurses
working with children and young people.

Association of Nurses
in Substance Abuse (ANSA). 1997

Available from:
ANSA Professional Briefings,
120 Wilson Road,
London SW1V1JZ.
Tel: 0171 233 8322

 A resource for all nurses working with children and young people, which reviews the current approaches to prevention and care and points the reader in the direction of more detailed reading.
Substance Misuse for Nursing, Midwifery
and Health Visiting: Guidance on
Good Clinical Practice for Nurses working
in Primary Care.

Association of Nurses
in Substance Abuse (ANSA). 1997

Available from:
ANSA Professional Briefings,
120 Wilson Road,
London SW1V1JZ.
Tel: 0171 233 8322

 A resource for all nurses working in a primary care setting, which reviews the current approaches to prevention and care and points the reader in the direction of more detailed reading.
Intravenous Drug Use and Hepatitis C:
What you need to know.

British Liver Trust. 1997

Available from:
British Liver Trust.
Tel: 01473 276328.

 Advice on Hepatitis C for people working with injecting drug misusers.

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