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The First Year's Operation of a Regional Drug Problem Team

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Philip M. Fleming
Philip M. Fleming*
Affiliation:
Wessex Regional Drug Problem Team, Northern Road Clinic, Cosham, Portsmouth
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The recent announcement of a further £5 million which has been distributed to Regional Health Authorities makes a total of over £22 million that has been made available specifically for the development and expansion of services for drug misusers over the past three years. An important element in the development of such services has been the formation of Regional Drug Problem Teams; this seemed a useful time to review the working of one such team over the past year.

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , January 1987 , pp. 21 - 23
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