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Drug Addiction

As well as the Veterinary Surgeons' Health Support Programme and Vet Helpline, the following agencies, private clinics and 12 step groups offer support. If you need in-patient treatment, and do not want to use the VSHSP, you should contact your GP for a referral or approach a private treatment centre in the UK or abroad directly yourself. A database of UK treatment centres is available from the National Treatment Agency

12 questions that may help you to decide whether you have a problem with drug misuse:

  1. Have you made attempts to cut down or control your drug use with little or no success?
  2. Have you substituted one kind of drug for another, hoping that this would solve your problem?
  3. In the past three months, have you used drugs to wake up or fall asleep?
  4. Have you ever taken a drug without knowing what it was or what it might do to you?
  5. Do you spend a lot of time thinking about using or planning your next fix?
  6. Have you ever taken one drug to deal with the effects of another?
  7. Have you missed or avoided work or school because of drug use?
  8. Is your drug use a cause of domestic difficulties?
  9. Have you ever overdosed on drugs?
  10. Have you had legal or financial problems as a result of drug use? 
  11. Do you continue to use drugs in spite of increasingly serious negative consequences?
  12. Does the thought of living without drugs frighten you?

(Source: lifeworkscommunity.com)


Drug Agencies:

Private Clinics:

The names of some clinics that are known to the VSHSP are given here but there is a very broad selection of clinics available and the VSHSP National Co-ordinator is available to discuss your options with you on 07946 634220 or can be emailed at VSHSP@vetlife.org.uk.

12 Step Groups:

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