Glossary

IDU – injecting drug user

adefovir – anti-viral drug used to treat hepatitis B.

Compassionate use programmes enable people with life-threatening, long-lasting or seriously disabling illnesses to use drugs that have not yet been authorised. This is usually only for drugs that are near to drug approval, especially for people who would be excluded from research studies.

This is similar to, and sometimes called, a named-patient programme.

Information on compassionate access in the EU.

methadone – a man-made opiate that used to treat heroin addiction. See also buprenorphine.

QD (or qd) – a short hand term for medication dosing that means ‘once-daily’.

See also q24H.