Addiction services; Schizophrenia; Hearts and cancer
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Inside Health reveals the poor state of addiction services in England with heroin and morphine related deaths the highest on record. Professor Colin Drummond raises concerns about a split in care between the NHS and Local Authorities since the 2012 Health and Social Care Act. And personal testimony is heard from Alison Bedford Russell whose son George died of a heroin overdose last year.
The Care Quality Commission, who is responsible for inspections, has found that 2/3 residential drug and alcohol treatment services failed to meet the required standard. Dr Paul Lelliott, Deputy Chief Investigator of hospitals at the CQC, explains what was discovered.
The correct use of medical language is a topic close to Inside Health so Margaret McCartney was naturally drawn to discuss news this week about the misuse of the term Schizophrenia.
And as London hosts the first ever Cardio-Oncology Summit in Europe, specialists from both fields discuss how to treat and prevent heart problems in people undergoing therapy for cancer.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I'm Ed Gamble, host of another BBC podcast, |
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| 0:29.4 | Hello, thank you for listening to this edition of Inside Health. |
| 0:32.1 | I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:33.3 | Coming up in today's program, Cancer and Heart, I visit a clinic at the forefront of a new |
| 0:39.2 | speciality that tackles the heart-related side effects of modern cancer treatments and schizophrenia. |
| 0:46.2 | Margaret McCartney explains why, contrary to what many people still believe, it has nothing |
| 0:51.1 | to do with split personality. But first, a special inside health investigation into the state of addiction services in England, |
| 1:01.0 | services that help people with drug and alcohol problems. |
| 1:05.0 | After a period of significant investment and fewer people abusing drugs like heroin, |
| 1:10.0 | the number of drug-related deaths in the UK had been falling. |
| 1:14.2 | However, that trend has reversed recently. |
| 1:17.3 | Over the last three years, the number of deaths involving heroin and morphine has doubled. |
| 1:22.6 | And last year's toll from all drugs was the worst on record. |
| 1:27.0 | Alison Bedford-Russ Russell was one of those affected. |
| 1:30.4 | My son, our son, George, had mental health problems for the best part of a decade, |
| 1:35.9 | and he died just over a year ago of a heroin overdose. |
| 1:43.2 | His father and I and our close family and friends believe that his death was |
| 1:50.4 | entirely preventable. He'd wanted help. He didn't want to be a heroin addict, but heroin |
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