Expert: methadone used as ‘easy option’ / Sunday Herald, 13 May 2007
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Judith Duffy
"Public health figure calls for more rehabilitation units as a longer-term drugs strategy
A PIONEER OF Scotland's methadone programme has warned that more resources need to be invested in alternative services which help addicts come off drugs. Dr Laurence Gruer, a leading public health expert who was responsible for setting up the methadone programme in Glasgow more than a decade ago,saidthere has been a"lackof balance"intheapproachtakento solving drug problems in Scotland."