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**ABSTRACT** **Aims** To assess current levels of participation of community pharmacists in needle exchange provision, assess participation in dispensing any drugs for drug misuse, explore methadone dispensing practice, assess involvement in health promotion for drug misusers, assess levels of training in drug misuse and compare all of the above with data from 5 years previously. **Design** A cross‐sectional postal questionnaire. **Setting** All community pharmacies in Scotland (__n =__ 1162). **Participants** A total of 969 pharmacists managing community pharmacies on a day‐to‐day basis (response rate 83.4%). **Measurements** Descriptive data were collected on demography, drug misuse services provided and training. Data were combined with a dataset from an identical survey conducted 5 years previously for statistical comparison. **Results** Levels of needle exchange provision has not changed significantly (9.7% in 2000 compared to 8.6% in 1995). Of all respondents, 71.5% now dispense drug for the management of drug misuse, 68.9% dispense methadone and 56.7% provide a supervised methadone consumption service. The number of methadone clients receiving methadone through pharmacies ha

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Author

C. Matheson; C. M. Bond; J. Pitcairn

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0965-2140)

Published

2002

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)