08 March 2017

For immediate release

Club Drug Clinic to present at UN meeting in Vienna

CNWL's Club Drug Clinic has been invited to present its work during part of a United Nations' session in Vienna.

The presentation, to be given on 14 March, is called 'The Neptune Project: Spreading Improvements', and is part of the UK part of the session calledHealth Responses to NPS- (Novel Psychiatric Substances).

Dr Owen Bowden-Jones, Consultant Psychiatrist and Lead Clinician for Club Drug Clinic, said: "The NEPTUNE project team, part of CNWL's Club Drug Clinic, has been invited to present its work at the United Nations in Vienna.

"Funded by the Health Foundation, NEPTUNE has developed online training and clinical tools to help frontline clinicians tackle harms related to club drugs and novel psychoactive substances."

Editors' notes

Details about Neptune are on this link:

http://neptune-clinical-guidance.co.uk/

Details about the Club Drug Clinic are on these links:http://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/services/addictions-and-substance-misuse-services/club-drug-clinic-2/

http://clubdrugclinic.cnwl.nhs.uk/

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