Methadone Episodes
Feb. 26, 2021
Episode 3. Dr Amira Guirguis, supporting the second victim and how to run a drug cartel.
Dr Amira Guiguis is a pharmacist who gained her PhD in the in-field detection of New Psychoactive Substance (NPS) and is currently the MPharm Programme Director at Swansea University Medical School. We discuss the difficulties with supervised methadone administration during the pandemic and the surprising risks posed by herbal teas…
Feb. 19, 2021
Episode 2 - Clare Howard and Multimorbidity
We meet our first guest, Clare Howard who has worked in pharmacy since she was 16 and in the past was Deputy Chief Pharmaceutical Officer for NHS England. She is now the Medicines Optimisation Clinical Director for the Wessex Academic Health & we discuss polypharmacy, PINCER, multimorbidity as well as middle aged apathy.