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This simple, graphic leaflet shows in print what can’t be seen by the eye: just how damaging to soft tissue a needle blunted by re-use can be.

Needle and syringe programmes in the UK are distributing, on average, around 1 needle and syringe, per injector, per day. With an average injecting frequency of around 3 injections per day, this means that many syringes are reused.

Femoral injecting is common, especially amongst longer term, intravenous injectors. This booklet sets out the risks of this more dangerous route of administration, and gives what guidance can be given to reduce the risks of injecting into the femoral veins in an attractive, clear, accessible booklet.

Detoxing from opiates – whether prescribed or illicit – is a big step. This handbook is a definitive users guide to the process.

The methadone handbook is the complete guide to methadone, and methadone treatment.

The rehab handbook is a guide for anyone thinking of using services to help them stay drug and alcohol free.

The Safer Injecting Handbook has been the definitive user’s guide, to reducing harm related to injecting for 20 years.

This attractive and easy to read leaflet explains, in plain English, and with simple illustrations how buprenorphine (also known as Subutex) works.

This attractive and easy to read leaflet explains, in plain English, and with simple illustrations, how methadone works.

This attractive and easy to read leaflet explains, in plain English, and with simple illustrations how naltrexone works, what it can do and, importantly, what its limitations are.

This attractive and easy to read leaflet explains, in plain English, and with simple illustrations how the buprenorphine + naloxone tablet (also known as Suboxone) works.