Guidance for health professionals - Injecting drug users

1. Public Health Link:

Possible batch of contaminated heroin at risk of causing severe systemic sepsis in injecting drug users.

IDU-CEM/CMO/2001/8 (PDF, 12 KB)

2. Advice to doctors on diagnosis, management and reporting:
Severe systemic sepsis related to soft tissue inflammation in injecting drug users (PDF, 33 KB)

3. Specimen Collection and Examination Guidance:
Microbiological Investigation of Severe Systemic Sepsis related to Soft Tissue Infection Amongst Infecting Drug Users (PDF, 59 KB)

Microbiological Investigation of Severe Systemic Sepsis related to Soft Tissue Infection Amongst Infecting Drug Users (PDF, 59 KB)

4. Information for coroners:
Severe systematic sepsis related to soft tissue inflammation in injecting drug users (PDF, 17 KB)

Last reviewed: 6 March 2009