The PUMP Clinic / Ancoats Needle Exchange - Manchester, UK
Gary Beeny. Needle Exchange Project Worker
Ancoats Needle Exchange
Ancoats Community Health Centre
Old Mill Street
Manchester
M4 6EE
Tel: 0161 274 1652
Mobile: 07969 218 522
gary.beeny@mhsc.nhs.uk
Gary Beeny provides needle exchange but also has a specialist role in Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs (PIED), these include androgenic and anabolic steroids. Gary runs a specialist clinic for this service user group; the PUMP clinic. The PUMP Clinic is a free and confidential service providing health checks and advice around the use of PIEDs including:
Liver function test
Cholesterol monitoring
Testosterone levels
Hepatitis C and HIV testing
The Smart Muscle Project / Turning Point - London, UK
Steroid and bodybuilding advice service
Roy Jones, Substance Misuse Worker, Turning Point Hungerford Drug Project, Soho, London
Smart Muscle is a service for people using or considering using anabolic-androgenic steroids and other image and performance enhancing drugs. It provides information about how to train correctly in the gym, nutrition, safer injecting and needle exchange, access to blood tests and vaccinations, information about the various drugs used and potential side effects of injecting drug use. The service is completely free and confidential. It is run by Turning-Point Hungerford Drug Project in Soho, London and is funded by Camden DAT.
Biography
Roy worked as a psychiatric nurse (R.M.N.) on a acute admissions unit in Charing Cross Hospital, London for five years. He has worked within the West End of London for over twenty years and has worked with many different client groups including young people and the long term homeless.
He currently works for Turning-Point Hungerford Drug Project as a Substance Misuse Worker.
For the past eight years he has been providing advice for users of performance and image enhancing drugs and trains drugs workers around the country.
He is currently sitting on the working group on anabolic androgenic steroids for the Advisory Council For The Misuse Of Drugs.
Wednesdays 6-9pm
32a Wardour Street
London
W1D 6QR
The Juice Clinic / Arundel Street Project - Sheffield, UK
Juice Clinic – free blood and liver function tests, cholesterol check, injecting equipment and advice. Hours: Wed 5pm - 7pm fortnightly
Phone number: 0114 272 1481
Fax: 0114 276 3990
Email:
arundelstreetproject@cri.org.uk
Address:
92A Arundel Street
Sheffield
Yorkshire
S1 4RE
Source: Arundel Street Project - Projects - CRI
Quote:
David Rourke, harm reduction lead for Arundel Street Project - a needle and syringe programme in Sheffield, said: "We run a weekly clinic for steroid users but we have people coming through the door on a daily basis, with at least seven new clients a week. We know there are many more people out there who are not using needle and syringe programmes because this group of users do not see themselves as drug users. Traditionally they are more sexually active than users of heroin or crack, so there is more potential for the spread of infections through sex.
"This guideline gives front-line workers clear recommendations on how to support image and performance enhancing drug users. Up to now this has been a grey area; services around the country have been patchy to say the least.
"In Sheffield we are lucky to have a special programme for those who use steroids to access information and support but I know of some areas where there is nothing.
"People who inject steroids are potentially using them without the correct education or the correct equipment and this can lead to more and more people injecting unsafely, which can put not just their own life, but the lives of those around them, at risk.
"Those who use steroids should be able to get the same support as anyone else who injects drugs. This guideline will make sure that services across the country are at the high standard they should be."
Drugs in Sport Clinic & Users Support (DISCUS) / County Durham Drugs Service - Chester-le-Street, UK
Chester-le-Street Health Centre
Newcastle Road
Chester-le-Street DH3 3UR
TELEPHONE: 0191 333 6028
WEBSITE: County Durham Drugs Service
INFO: Every Thursday evening 5-7pm there is also DISCUS (Drugs in Sport Clinic & Users’ Support) which provides healthcare, harm minimisation advice and support for users of performance and Image Enhancing Drugs. This includes health checks. ECG monitoring, individually tailored dietary programmes, referral to appropriate treatment agencies, specialist information, advice and support for sports related and image enhancing drug use, needle exchange and testing for hepatitis and HIV.
R.T. Dawson
Responsible Medical Officer
Ralph Heron
Development Manager
Office: 0191 3837800
Mobile: 07884436320
ralphheron@nhs.net
Mark Harrison
Joint Commissioning Manager
Office: 0191 3837800
Mobile: 07747475402
mark.harrison5@nhs.net
Drugs in sport - the role of the physician
Dawson RT. Drugs in sport - the role of the physician. J Endocrinol. 2001 Jul;170(1):55-61.
Abstract
Sportsmen have used anabolic steroids since the 1950s and yet it was not until the 1980s that we, as physicians, admitted that they could improve performance. We now find ourselves in the insidious position of being unable to predict convincingly either safety or major health risks with performance-enhancing drug use. The use of performance-enhancing drugs is no longer limited to the elite athlete. In 1993 the Canadian Center for Drug-free Sport estimated that 83 000 children between the ages of 11 and 18 had used anabolic steroids in the previous 12 months. Recent evidence suggests anabolic steroids are now the third most commonly offered drugs to children in the UK, behind cannabis and amphetamines. The role of the physician of today is to regain our position of impartiality and objectivity within both the sporting and general community. Only then will we be able to pursue a harm minimisation strategy designed to convince the public that it is better to be the best you can be naturally. For the majority, the improvement through the use of performance-enhancing drugs can equally be achieved through dietary and training advice. For the elite athlete, what price a gold medal that is tarnished by deceit? Its value then can only lie with the sponsors and politicians, for they can no longer claim to be sportsmen, only entertainers.
Wirral Harm Reduction Unit / Wirral Drug Service - Tranmere, UK
Harm Reduction Unit,
St. Catherine's Community Centre,
Blue Block, Ground Floor, Church Road,
Tranmere CH42 0LQ
Tel: 0151 653 3871
Fax: 0151 651 0617
Website:
www.wirraldrugservice.nhs.uk
Helen Cosnett Clinical Nurse Specialist
Deborah Jones Clinical Nurse Specialist
Julie Murphy Unit Administrator
Opening times
Mon - Thu 8.30 - 18.30. Fri 8.30 - 18.00.
Quote:
PRESS RELEASE
ANABOLIC STEROID USE IN WIRRAL
December 1, 2003
[...]
Jim McVeigh, Senior Lecturer in Substance Misuse at the Centre for Public Health, who collects and analyses drug related data on behalf of Wirral DAAT, commented:
“There has been an increase in the number of anabolic steroid injectors accessing syringe exchange services across Merseyside and Cheshire. From both a health and community safety perspective it is a positive finding that syringe exchanges are attracting this group of injectors into services, providing them with clean injecting equipment and enabling the safe disposal of used needles and syringes.”
This is an important provision, as the basic harm reduction message of HIV and hepatitis prevention is the same to all injectors:
• Use new, clean injecting equipment every time you inject.
• Never share any injecting equipment.
• Dispose of used needles and syringes safely at a syringe exchange scheme.
“However, despite this, the health related-needs of anabolic steroid injectors and heroin injectors are quite different,” continued Jim McVeigh.
“This is why the HIV prevention service in Wirral has provided specific services for steroid users for a number of years. The early development of these services may be the reason for the increase in anabolic steroid injecting clients accessing needle exchanges in Wirral compared to many other parts of Merseyside and Cheshire.”
The Wirral Harm Reduction Centre, based at The Lodge, St Catherine’s Community Hospital, has provided services tailored to the needs of anabolic steroid users since it opened in 1988. It is managed by the Wirral Drug Service, part of Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Trust.
As well as providing a needle exchange scheme, the Centre runs a weekly ‘drop-in’ service for anabolic steroids users, where they can access a range of advice and support.
Ann Taylor, Clinical Nurse Specialist for Harm Reduction, said: “Our aim is to ensure that people are aware of the potential health risks posed by using anabolic steroids.
“In doing so, we provide information about the physical effects of anabolic steroids, and offer liver function and blood pressure checks so people can monitor any impact on their health and take action if necessary.”
Ann said that the vast majority of people she comes into contact with use anabolic steroids in order to enhance muscle mass and are generally male, between the ages of 18 and 30.
She added: “If the client wishes, we can also give training advice on how to maintain their physique without using anabolic steroids or point them in the direction of appropriate counselling services.”
Reducing the risk of people coming to harm through drug use is a key theme of the National Drug Strategy, which is implemented locally by Wirral DAAT in partnership with a range of agencies including the NHS, police, local authority and voluntary organisations.
Andy Mills, Wirral DAAT’s Treatment Lead and Assistant Director of Partnerships for Birkenhead and Wallasey, and Bebington and West Wirral primary care trusts, concluded: “The issue of anabolic steroid use has been brought into focus thanks to our work with Liverpool JMU. We’ll be continuing to work with agencies such as the Wirral Harm Reduction Centre to make sure that more people are encouraged to access support services and that we respond to trends in drug use locally.”
The Wirral Harm Reduction Centre can be contacted on 0151 653 3871. O
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