EU DRUG REPPORT
April 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLBRITAIN'S health authorities provide fewer drug addicts with substitution treatment than do a majority of other European Union Member States, a statistical review by an EU drug-use agency has claimed.The proportion of "problem drug users" given alternative medicines to wean them off their addiction ranges between six and 22 per cent in the UK, taking into account available data, estimates the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.By contrast, the proportion of these patients given drug substitutes, by health centres, hospitals ...
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