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Thursday, 27 February 2014

Department of Health

Drug Treatment Programmes Policy

Photo of Terence FlanaganTerence Flanagan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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261. To ask the Minister for Health if an agreement is in place between local pharmacies and the Health Service Executive regarding the dispensing of methadone to drug users (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10186/14]

Photo of Alex WhiteAlex White (Dublin South, Labour)
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The methadone protocol scheme, which is an agreement between Community Pharmacists, Primary Care GPs and the HSE to provide services to drug misusers in community based settings, was introduced in Ireland in 1998.

As of 31 December 2013, there were 628 Community Pharmacists involved in the Methadone Protocol Scheme nationally.

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