Deering is a mental health nurse, an addiction nursing specialist and a senior lecturer at the National Addiction Centre in Christchurch.
What does NAC stand for?
NAC stands for National Addiction Centre
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Doug Sellman of the National Addiction Centre said there were problems across the country for people needing medical detoxification beds.
A team led by Prof John Strang, of the National Addiction Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, said: "We have shown treatment with supervised injectable heroin leads to significantly lower use of street heroin than does supervised injectable methadone or optimised oral methadone".
Robert Patton, a psychologist at the National Addiction Centre at King's College London, said Britain's increased cirrhosis mortality rates "came as no surprise".
Jim McCambridge of the National Addiction Centre helped to write the new report and last night said action was needed.
Such a change would not breach international conventions on drug controls, it added, Another option would be to create new offences of 'social Research Unit and the National Addiction Centre at King's College London interviewed 37 cannabis growers and surveyed practices in a number of police forces.
A spokesperson for the National Addiction Centre in the UK has stated that many drugs that are available on the Internet should be taken only with a health professional monitoring and working with the patient.
Dr Gay Sutherland, from the Tobacco Research Section of the National Addiction Centre, said: "What this survey tells us is that despite awareness that nicotine is an addictive drug, smokers are still finding it difficult to stop and stay stopped.