An Evening With Manuel Cardoso – The Man Who Helped Reform Portugal’s Drug Policy
There was a big turn-out on rainy Sydney evening for drug law reform meeting. Tuesday 5th June 2018. St Stephen’s Church, Macquarie Street, Sydney, for “An […]
Byline: Dr Andrew Byrne (and associates)
Medical Postcard from New York: Overdose Crisis Summary from NYU
Dear Colleagues, During a recent New York visit I had numerous encounters in the medical, public health and dependency fields. The opioid overdose crisis dominates […]
Bart G, Wyman Z, Wang Q, Hodges JS, Karim R, Bart BA. Methadone and the QTc Interval: Paucity of Clinically Significant Factors in a Retrospective Cohort. J Addiction Medicine pre-publication 2017.
Large study shows torsade risk remote and ECG non-predictive in methadone maintenance. Bart G, Wyman Z, Wang Q, Hodges JS, Karim R, Bart BA. Methadone […]
Benzodiazepines For Patients on Opiate Maintenance Treatment
Bakker A, Streel E. Benzodiazepine maintenance in opiate substitution treatment: Good or bad? A retrospective primary care case-note review. Journal of Psychopharmacology 2016 1-5 Dear […]
Medical postcard from New York, April 2016
Dear Colleagues, I can report that spring has sprung in New York. After a cold start, April has seen a wonderful transition from winter bareness […]
Managed Alcohol Programs – (MAP). Slow progress of effective hostel protocol to save money, suffering and dignity of our most marginalised citizens.
Dear Colleagues, I have been writing these summaries for many years but there is little more dramatic I can think of than the findings of […]
Drug Overdose Increasing – Known Solutions Ignored
Dear Colleagues, BMJ article: increasing overdoses but they ignore known solutions (+ Hari TED talk). There is no more ‘final’ statistic regarding drug use than […]
BMJ article: increasing overdoses but they ignore known solutions (+ Hari TED talk).
Dear Colleagues, There is no more ‘final’ statistic regarding drug use than overdose deaths. And in England the official figures go back to Victorian times, […]
The Final Statistic
There is no more ‘final’ statistic regarding drug use than overdose deaths. And in England the official figures go back to Victorian times, then often […]
Medical Postcard from New York, April 2015
Dear Colleagues, It has been my privilege again to spend a month in Manhattan learning about American developments in alcohol and drugs issues as well […]