{"id":294,"date":"2024-11-04T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/harmreductionteam\/drug-liaison-service\/"},"modified":"2024-11-04T11:14:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T11:14:40","slug":"draft-drug-liaison-service-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/harmreductionteam\/draft-drug-liaison-service-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug Liaison Service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The aim of the service is to help acute services deliver care to people who use or inject drugs, who are at high risk of harm \u2013 including drug related death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A range of interventions may be available, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Initiation of Opioid Substitution Therapy \/ Medication Assisted Treatment in carefully selected patients<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Advice on management of withdrawal in the hospital setting<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For some patients who take a patient directed discharge we can provide or refer to appropriate assertive outreach services<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Liaison with community substance use teams<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Facilitation of early follow-up<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Naloxone training and take-home kits for patients<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Harm reduction advice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For advice or to make a referral to the team, please email:<strong>\u00a0loth.drugliaisonservice@nhs.scot<\/strong> or for phone advice:<strong>\u00a007779 967 525<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aim of the service is to help acute services deliver care to people who use or inject drugs, who are at high risk of harm &ndash; including drug related death. A range of interventions may be available, including: For advice or to make a referral to the team, please email:&nbsp;loth.drugliaisonservice@nhs.scot or for phone advice:&nbsp;07779<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/widewidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-294","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"davidmcbain","author_link":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/harmreductionteam\/author\/davidmcbain\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":false,"rttpg_excerpt":"The aim of the service is to help acute services deliver care to people who use or inject drugs, who are at high risk of harm &ndash; including drug related death. A range of interventions may be available, including: For advice or to make a referral to the team, please email:&nbsp;loth.drugliaisonservice@nhs.scot or for phone advice:&nbsp;07779","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/harmreductionteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/harmreductionteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/harmreductionteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/harmreductionteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/harmreductionteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/harmreductionteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/harmreductionteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/harmreductionteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/harmreductionteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}