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February 1st  

 

 
Assembly Member, Mark Isherwood, has asked the First Minister to respond to calls for a different approach in dealing with substance misuse in Wales.
Questioning the First Minister in the Chamber, Mr Isherwood said: “A GP in North Wales running a substance misuse clinic told me that, if medication is taken as prescribed, the benefits of harm reduction can be huge, if it stops someone from dying or committing a crime, but added that we need a model with tight rules, whereby medical maintenance is provided on the basis that there's abstinence. How do you respond to the call by the Welsh Council on Alcohol and Other Drugs to move from a medical model to a recovery model? Instead of the state enabling substance misusers in their sickness, the goal is to provide ongoing psychosocial support and peer-based recovery with abstinence.”
The First Minister told Mr Isherwood: “We are always keen to examine new methods of assisting people who are addicts of alcohol or other drugs. This is a matter that the Minister for Health and Social Services will keep under active consideration in order to examine the effectiveness of such an approach.”

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