/ The National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (NTA), the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) and the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC) , March 2006
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"Pharmacists play a very important role in the provision of treatment and care to drug misusers, by dispensing drugs as part of supervised consumption arrangements and by offering needle exchange services.
Although there are more than 14 million face-to-face contacts between pharmacists and drug misusers each year, the Audit Commission�s report Changing habits, identified pharmacists as an underused point of contact for the drug misusing population.
The NTA has produced new guidance to assist commissioners and pharmacists in improving and increasing the level of provision.�"
