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<p>Local authorities are responsible for assessing local needs and commissioning drug
prevention, treatment and harm reduction services to meet these needs. This includes
helping to prevent drug-related deaths from the misuse of heroin and morphine in coastal
communities. Public Health England (PHE) supports local authorities to do this by
providing advice, guidance and tools.</p><p>Locally, PHE is supporting the South East
substance misuse network, which includes Portsmouth, to review a range of opportunities
to prevent drug misuse deaths including engaging more people at risk in treatment,
improving the physical and mental wellbeing of people in treatment, improving access
to naloxone, developing local arrangements for reviewing deaths and near misses, and
developing drug alert and early warning systems.</p><p>Nationally, the Department
and PHE have made it easier for drug services to supply naloxone, published updated
clinical guidelines for drug treatment and worked with a network of treatment providers
to establish good practice guidance on managing drug-related death risk factors and
to improve partnership between treatment providers and other healthcare services.
Updated clinical guidelines can be viewed at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/drug-misuse-and-dependence-uk-guidelines-on-clinical-management"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/drug-misuse-and-dependence-uk-guidelines-on-clinical-management</a></p>
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