Training for GPs to identify and treat patients misusing drugs

A SURGE in drug and alcohol misuse among people at home has forced GPs to take up urgent training to cope with distraught families.

Training for GPs to identify and treat patients misusing drugs

A raft of courses are lined up for GPs, starting next month, to help identify and treat patients misusing drugs, increasingly arriving at their surgery doorsteps.

Doctors will not only focus on identifying and responding to patients abusing prescribed drugs and alcohol but people misusing other substances such as tranquillisers, cocaine and cannabis.

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