In the first part of a major two-part investigation into Ireland’s opioid treatment services, Aoife Connors analyses the recommendations of the review of the Methadone Treatment Protocol.
The range and scale of problems outside Dublin makes the development of drug treatment services in other areas an urgent priority, according to Prof Michael Farrell, Professor of Addiction Psychiatry at King’s College London, whose comments were made in a review of the Opioid Treatment Protocol, published last December.
Prof Farrell said a “service model” was needed outside of Dublin that had a clear focus on “rural aspects of service delivery”.
“There is a need for a type of hub and spoke model that has centres of expertise but is designed to enable a much broader geographic coverage through a range of innovative service developments.”
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Source: Aoife Connors, Irish MEdical Times, 24/05/2011
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