Wiltshire and Swindon Crime Chief Rules Out Addicts' Drug Rooms

Wiltshire and Swindon crime chief rules out addicts' drug rooms

Filed under: drug addiction help for families

When questioned whether he thought it was a valid form of countering drug addiction, Angus, the PCC for Wiltshire and Swindon said: “I'm a greater believer in abstinence rather than maintenance approaches in the treatment of those with drug habits …
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Paramedics train with sophisticated mannequins

Filed under: drug addiction help for families

The body on the floor is a mannequin in a room at Fire Division headquarters that has been staged to resemble a drug addict's apartment. The mannequin can communicate and react to first responders through a computer program as if it were a real person.
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Mum got clean after daughter was born with heroin addiction

Filed under: drug addiction help for families

It aims to reach people who aren't among the 1,200 known drug addicts and 550 alcoholics who are in detox treatment programmes across the county. … In the end, she isolated herself from all her family and friends in a circle of drug users. But she …
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