Graham Parsons is the Chief Pharmacist at Turning Point. He is a pharmacist with a wide range of experience in many aspects of pharmacy.
Substance Misuse
Monthly buprenorphine injections will reduce pharmacy contact
Wales will become the first part of the UK to make a new once-a-month injection for recovering heroin addicts routinely available.
Drug-related deaths involving fentanyl on the increase
A recently published report by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs has warned of the pharmacology and toxic effects of fentanyl and related analogues. The report says that it can be concluded that fentanyl and fentanyl-analogues present a significant ongoing risk to UK public health.
Drug users need compassion, not custody
Westminster committee hears voices of Scots with experience of addiction during an inquiry into problem drug use. The current approach of criminalising people who use drugs is making the problem worse and needs to be drastically overhauled, an influential committee of MPs has been told by Scots with personal experience of addiction. Westminster’s […]
Innovative pharmacy technician tackles opioid crisis
Alyssa Stanlake is a Canadian pharmacy technician who works as an operations manager in a community pharmacy in Whistler. Alyssa works for Pier Health, a community pharmacy which specialises in supporting people who have an addiction and mental health problems. She was awarded the honour of Canadian Pharmacy Technician of the Year 2018 […]
