Addiction Medicine

The Addiction Medicine Service provides advice to inpatient's parent unit on the following:

• Identifying patients at high risk of alcohol problems in the wards
• Management of alcohol withdrawal in hospital
• Management of drug withdrawal in hospital, including opioids, psychostimulants, cannabis, benzodiazepines, and other mind-altering drugs
• Advice on managing pain in patients who are opioid tolerant or resistant because of illicit drug use of opioid substitution pharmacotherapy
• Advice on post-discharge management of patients with alcohol and/or other drug use