Treating drug users in hospital wards.
It seems likely that hospital wards will be admitting an increasing number of intravenous drug users over the coming year. Hal Satterthwaite offers hospital services a system of response to the needs of this population, based on a maintenance contract with individual patients. He argues that such contracts should be instigated as soon as is feasible after admission of the patient onto the ward.
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